- From: Peter Crowther <Peter.Crowther@melandra.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:36:21 -0000
- To: "'Jim Hendler'" <jhendler@darpa.mil>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> From: Jim Hendler [mailto:jhendler@darpa.mil] [...] > Here's a stab at something - to me the most important idea in DAML is > the "equivalento" sort of mechanism -- it let's a first user define a > desiognator for Boston, a second user defines a different URI for > Boston, and a third comes along and says - they are the same That's a really neat solution for abstract concepts. As they'd say in the British Parliament, "I commend the idea to the House" :-). I'd hate to have to try to find and define equivalents for concrete/host/call-them-what-you-will concepts, though; imagine any agent, human or machine, searching the Web trying to determine equivalents of <data:logic/rdf;10> (to quote Tim's earlier message) if no built-in mechanism exists for expressing that concept. > (the > issue of whether to believe the third person is irrelevant to this > discussion - all multi-person representation will need some sort of > caveat emptor mechanism or we'll all be in infinite loops forever) Indeed. Trusting your sources becomes a whole lot more important when they're not just feeding you data, they're telling you how to interpret that data as well. Jim, I think you've just described a whole new area of meme-viruses (virii?) where crackers try to poison systems' abilities to reason... - Peter
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