- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:59:00 -0500
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> >Maybe the KR folk are just grumpy because they didn't think of >grounding their terms in a global information space... [sound of me >ducking]. Hey, come out from behind the arras. You really should try reading something some day. Did it never occur to you that natural language IS a global information space? It did to CS Peirce, Bertrand Russel, and WVO Quine, to name but a few. More recently, you could check out the discussions on the SUO lists to see what really happens if you try to make a globally coherent ontology. That is what a lot of we KR folk spend our time trying to do, in fact. Using RDF would be like trying to fill a reservoir using teaspoons. But more seriously, I would welcome any discussion on these lists (and there has been some lately) which seriously got down to what it is about URIs and the Web and so on that introduces genuinely new ideas into semantics. Im sure there will be some, and that there is some new work to do. But so far that all seems orthogonal to the issues we have been talking about. Pat Hayes --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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