On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Stephen Reed wrote: > 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. It was sarcasm feeding off of Drew's elaboration of Clay Shirky's Anti-Semantic-Web-Syllogism article. As a founding member of the Syllogistically Linking, AI-hyping Gnomes (S.L.A.G.)*, I feel it's my moral duty to keep up the other side :) Cheers, Bijan Parsia. *(I'm also committee chair of the Semantic Web Alliance of Gnostic (or Gnarly) Gnomes Evangelizing Reasoning)Received on Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:51:20 GMT
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