Re: plain rules, please [was: Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) 0.5 released]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Bijan Parsia wrote:

> OWL Rules has some nice logical (it's just a larger subset of FOL) and 
> pragmatic (it lets you reuse your hard won OWL expertise) features.
> 
> Of course, given the increasing recognition that Deduction is Evil(tm) 
> or, at least, that Deduction is Silly and Pointless(r), the former 
> properties might not be so nice.

Please elaborate your last point.

-Steve

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