- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:18:50 -0500
- To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> >Well I, for one, agree with you, Lynn. I have argued in other trains and >with the graph [2] that people (and automated agents) will experience of the >Semantic Web\Cloud quite incoherently, because regardless of their >processing capabilities they will be always have encountered an incomplete >and inconsistent set of statements. Just for the record, logic has no problems whatsoever with incomplete sets of statements. And I think that where $$ are involved, the semantic web is likely to be extremely sensitive to inconsistencies. The vision of the semantic web coming out of W3C doesnt sound at all like a 'cloud'. I don't see banking agents making million-dollar trades with their electronic heads lost in a cloud of contradictions. I think it going to be more like a kind of automated lawyer's convention, with agents checking everyone else's proofs down to the last jot and tittle, and not parting with a microcent until all the inconsistencies are completely ironed out, or at any rate until some broker agent has agreed, in secured and checked DAML (or XML-legal-rules, or whatever) to take the risk. Pat Hayes --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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