Re: Survey on titles for OWL2 Semantics documents

On 19 Sep 2008, at 16:29, Ivan Herman wrote:

> Ah! So the remark could be translated as 'there is nothing DL specific
> in it'. Right? This makes sense...
>

indeed, this is what I tried to say, cheers, Uli

> Ivan
>
> Bijan Parsia wrote:
>>
>> On 19 Sep 2008, at 16:03, Ivan Herman wrote:
>>
>>> Can somebody (eg, Uli:-) explain what is meant by the remark:
>>>
>>> "DL Semantics" and "RDF-Based Semantics" (But Uli says it's not DL.)
>>>
>>> I know she said that on the call, but I did not really grasp that  
>>> at the
>>> time either...
>>
>> Let me hazard a guess and test my understanding.
>>
>> The RDF-Based semantics are worth calling such because they depart
>> significantly from standard first order logic style model theory.  
>> (Yes,
>> it's first order, but it is definitely not Ye Old Principa Model
>> Theory.) Whereas the "DL semantics" are just regular old first order
>> semantics. (Really more propositional modalish in presentation, but  
>> in
>> the structures it's plain old normal semantics).
>>
>> Someone coming to the documents with a model theory background is  
>> in for
>> far far far less of a shock (if any) when confronting the "DL"
>> semantics. Indeed, it would be confusing because it would suggest
>> something DLish about them. The name "RDF-Based" does the right  
>> thing by
>> signaling that there *is* something different and giving a cue  
>> where to go.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bijan.
>>
>
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