Re: FOL versus Rule Languages - A tutorial

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> In NAF, the scope is implicit, but well-defined. However,
> this implicitness doesn't work well on the web because
> the Web is practically infinite.

true

> There is always that "somewhere on the web" as you put it,
> which the engine may not be aware of. One way out of this
> is to let the user specify the scope of the inference
> explicitly (which is what SNAF really is). In this way,
> you tell the engine where to look.

Right, but then you say, and I now understand that SNAF
is non-monotonic; I'm fine when such reasoning results
are used for local action (and have good experience with
that) but I really don't see it for cases where we have
merging of rulesets created without knowledge of what
they would be merged with (to use Sandro's words)

-- 
Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

Received on Friday, 26 August 2005 20:08:48 UTC