- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:27:56 -0700
- To: "Giles Hogben" <giles.hogben@jrc.it>, "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> > The notion of assertion is much simpler and more fundamental than > > that of belief. In the context of software agents, one can argue > > whether there are any beliefs involved at all, but making an > I don't agree here. I think what you are saying is circular. > What is a "statement that something is true" if it does not contain some > notion of belief. I am not getting philosophical here, I am talking about > from the bottom up to support this kind of commitment. At the moment, it > seems that the semantics is too confused to do this. I don't understand what you are confused about. Asserting something and believing it are two different things. How could it be any other way?
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