- From: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:29:48 +0200
- To: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- CC: edbark@nist.gov, public-rif-wg@w3.org
Michael Kifer wrote: > I said that normative rules imply that we must use some sort of a closed > world assumption. Under the open-world assumption there is no useful way to > distinguish between normative rules and deductive rules, but under the CWA > there is. > I am not sure I can agree with this. I can very well imaginbe normative rules not governed by a Closed World Assumption. But anyway, the RIF surely needs a Closed World Assumption. Othjerwise, I hardly see how it could be useful in practice. François
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