Re: RDF semantics: applications, formalism and education

At 11:14 AM 4/16/01 -0500, pat hayes wrote:
>>I just dug out your papers "In defense of logic" and "The second naive 
>>physics manifesto" (I happen to have copies to hand) and these have 
>>helped me understand something of the significance of interpretation as 
>>part of semantics;  viewpoints from other commentators, and a concise 
>>introduction to the logic formalisms involved (especially covering the 
>>model theory for FOL) might be helpful.
>
>I will try to find (or write) something.

I'm currently reading "Metalogic" by Geoffrey Hunter [1] which seems to 
have a good, fairly rigorous, coverage of the essentials of FOL, up to 
consistency and decidability, in a fairly concise and readable form.  It's 
certainly helping me to disentangle proof and model theory.

I may try to distill something of this in an attempt to test my understanding.

#g
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[1]
Metalogic, An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First Order Logic,
Geoffrey Hunter,
University of California Press, 1971 (6th printing 1996),
ISBN 0-520-02356-0


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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

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