- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 06:42:44 -0400
- To: "patrick hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, "Graham Klyne" <GK@Ninebynine.org>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Graham Klyne wrote: > > At 05:46 PM 6/12/02 -0500, patrick hayes wrote: > >OK, stop right there. You said OWL is representing facts in RDF. To me > >that sounds like saying that Im talking English in French: it simply > >doesn't make sense. Which language are you referring to? RDF or OWL? > >Because they are *different*. > > I heard on the radio recently that linguists have a concept they call > "cross coding" (or something like that) where people mix words and > structures from different root languages in their > conversations. Popularly, some of these have been raised to the status of > a language in their own right. I believe "Spanglish" (English+Spanish) is > a common case. ... > My point is that, even with spoken natural languages, there are cases where > one language is a subset of another; i.e. an expression in language A can > be understood as having the same meaning in B. > Well yes, but moreover in modularly extensible 'languages' such as LISP it is "de rigeur" err, "order of the day" to define a new "language" by loading in a set of new terms which are defined in a module. The point is that LISP was designed to allow this. Now suppose that we are actually to try and define OWL based on the primitives available in RDFS. Jonathan
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