- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:49:45 -0400
- To: seth@robustai.net
- CC: "www-rdf-comments@w3.org" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>, "Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com" <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
Seth Russell wrote: > > Frank Manola wrote: > > >I expect monotony will always be preserved anywhere there are people. > >Monotonicity, however, is another question. > > > >--Frank > > > Case in point! Would that I could go back in time and correct my > misspell .... but I can't . Anyway, I prefer my stemming , it's > logical ... well er I mean ... monotonic binary logic that gets itself > in a rut is monotonous, is it not? Me wonders if these concepts are in > fact related .... are they? Well, they certainly can be related unintentionally! For example, the current discussion about RDF datatypes involves issues of monotonicity, and also seems to strike some folks as being monotonous (since they claim they keep hearing the same arguments over and over). More to your original point, it seems to me what you want is the ability to control or specify when you have monotonicity and when you don't. Kind of like a database transaction mechanism. --Frank -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-8752
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