Re: What do the ontologists want

>Pat,
>
> > >
> > >I agree that there currently exists alot of fuzziness in this regard. I
>am
> > >in the process of trying to clean this up by providing a (hopefully)
>logical
> > >framework. http://www.rddl.org/SchemaAlgebra is a work in progress
> > >addressing some of these issues.
> >
> > Great.  Thanks for the pointers and exposition. I will try to digest them.
>
>Hopefully you have a robust digestive system. I am certain there are
>syntactic issues in the way that I have written the formulae but hopefully
>they are intelligable enough for you to understand what I am trying to
>represent :-)
>
> > >
> > >'(says 'Jon '(isColor 'sky 'blue))
> > >
> > >what is the problem with access to structure?
> >
> > Ah, but now you have changed the quotation rules (if I follow you).
> > This seems to be quotation as in LISP, where it really means
> > something different: the quote mark is a tag to prevent evaluation.
>
>yes. I was specifically assuming the existence of something like an 'eval'
>mechanism.
>
> >
> > So it has no semantics at all? I doubt if that is really what you
> > mean, since then it would have no point to it, as far as I can see.
> > Certainly the RDF literature seems to *want* RDF to actually mean
> > something.
>
>I think the analogy is to LISP where the underlying datatype is a list, and
>from this we can build structures that represent knowledge. 'abstract
>syntax' is very apropos. In this case RDF triples are identical to car-cdr
>register pairs. It is the structures that are built on top of triples that I
>expect to be semantically interesting. This viewpoint may not be shared by
>all in the RDF community, but nonetheless.

This crossed with a longer reply to you in response to your request 
for suggestions. Obviously we are on the same wavelength. I agree 
entirely with what you say here.

Must rush, dinner calls.

Pat

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