- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:04:52 -0600
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Cc: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>, "'Ivan Herman'" <ivan@w3.org>, "'Guus Schreiber'" <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>, "'RDF WG'" <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On Nov 5, 2012, at 6:15 AM, Steve Harris wrote: > On 2012-11-01, at 09:50, Markus Lanthaler wrote: > >> On Thursday, November 01, 2012 6:56 AM, Ivan Herman wrote: >> >>> As Antoine notes, the OWL 2 group has faced the same issue for OWL 2 >>> RL. I do not see any problem doing that in this case either. I do not >>> think we should reopen, at this point, the bnode-in-predicate and >>> literal-in-subject issue and, with this, using this 'generalized >>> triples for the rules' seems to be the clean approach... >> >> Honestly it sounds a bit strange to me to simply accept that there is a >> fundamental problem without trying to address it - especially considering >> that the problem has been known since at least 2005 (2002?). >> The other thing that worries me even more is the fact that a number of RDF >> serialization formats are in the process of being standardized right now. At >> least JSON-LD doesn't have this artificial restriction but that was heavily >> criticized by the RDF WG and, as it seems at the moment, we will have to >> introduce it. >> >> I think there won't be a better point in time to fix this once for all. > > It is a matter of opinion that there is anything broken, to "fix". True. Let me try to explain why this current situation seems brain-damaged to anyone with logical training. A well-built logic does more than allow you to state facts: it supports inference rules (or sometimes, inference machinery of a different kind, but anyway inference machinery) which allows you to derive facts from other facts. Rules typically interact and support one another, by the outputs (conclusions) of some rules being usable as inputs to other rules, so that chains of reasoning can be supported, sometimes quite complicated chains of reasoning. Ideally, the rules should exactly "capture" the logic's own semantic notion of entailment, so that some sentences entail another just when it can be derived from them by applying the rules. RDF syntax, however, doesn't let you do this. There are RDF graphs which entail others, but the obvious rule derivation is blocked because the 'intermediate' sentences needed to make the rules connect properly are deemed illegal, even though they actually make semantic sense and indeed would be true under the logic's own semantic rules, and are needed in order for the rules to work properly on the "legal" sentences. Which is brain-damaged :-) Pat > > - Steve > > -- > Steve Harris, CTO > Garlik, a part of Experian > +44 7854 417 874 http://www.garlik.com/ > Registered in England and Wales 653331 VAT # 887 1335 93 > 80 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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