Re: No Standard Semantic Web Pragmatics?

John --

It's good to see someone stating the problems -- the first step to a solution!

A few of your stated problems concerning intended interpretations and URIs 
are addressed in the "Semantic Web Presentation" at www.reengineeringllc.com .

In case your are now thinking, "Oh great, Yet Another Powerpoint", there's 
an online system in which you can run all the examples in the presentation, 
using a browser.  You can also use a browser to write and run your own 
examples.

HTH,  -- Adrian



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At 06:17 PM 6/10/04 -0400, you wrote:

>So here is what it looks like to me.
>
>A general purpose communication system, where:
>
>There is no standard way to tell who is making statements.
>
>There is no standard way to tell whether whoever is doing it is
>asserting, denying, quoting, or just experimenting with those
>statements.
>
>Its a new, artificial language but there is no standard way for
>fixing or learning the intended interpretation of its terms, URIrefs.
>
>URIrefs, most of which look just like URLs, are to be treated as
>strings bearing no standard relation to the URLs they look
>like, or to anything that might be done with them on the web.
>
>You can reason over it, but everything stated is considered true,
>and there is no standard way for anything to be unsaid.
>
>And the people that would need to be involved to develop some
>plain old-fashioned standard language pragmatics[1,2] are either
>firmly against it or are too busy out writing code with it to
>bother.
>
>Do I understand this correctly?
>
>
>[1] The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction
>http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/semprag.html
>[2] Pragmatics of the Semantic Web
>http://semanticweb2002.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/proceedings/Position/kim.pdf
>
>
>John Black

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