Re: Why must the web be monotonic ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Martin" <martin@ai.sri.com>
To: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
>>>> If, however,  we publish them with an explicit
>>>>indication that they are derived from, and claimed to be valid only
>>>>with respect to, this narrower context, then our published claims
>>>>(including this rider) can be used monotonically by other reasoners
>>>>with perfect safety.
> >     For instance, it
> >     would be useful to be able to say that, within a given namespace, a
> >     property has cardinality 1 (without saying anything about property
> >     instances outside of the namespace).  (I suppose there's an issue
about
> >     what namespace a property instance belongs to, but for present
purposes,
> >      I don't think that needs to be dealt with here.)
Just a comment
I think that solutions when publish information with an explicit  indication
that they are derived from becomes a real thing.
As example technology of application profiles
(http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/jane-hunter/www10/paper.html)
suggested by C. Lagoze and Hunter (project Harmony
http://metadata.net/harmony/) allows to redefine meaning of metadata
elements for application domain.
So each application must publish explicit information about its data and it
is very close to an explicit  indication  mentioned early
The communication between aplications can be established in only case when
each application  accept the limits of the  context of the other application

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