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Re: How do RDF and Formal Logic fit together?

From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:30:35 -0700
Message-ID: <008101c15415$278bbc00$657ba8c0@c1457248a.sttls1.wa.home.com>
To: "Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>, "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
From: "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>

> Why in an RDF graph syntax? (What is so special about RDF? Its one
> among thousands of possible notations, and its not a particularly
> good one. The limitations of simple graphs as a notation have been
> known for about a century, so why would we want to deliberately go
> back to the stone age to find a basis for the world wide web?)

I would like to know specifically what those limitations are ... I have not
found any.

Seth Russell
Received on Saturday, 13 October 2001 14:31:13 GMT

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