- From: tim finin <finin@umbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:10:58 -0500
- To: www-rdf-rules@w3.org
I think that default reasoning via NAF is too useful and intuitive to ignore, even initially. A "worse is better" argument may be relevant here. We'll get this stuff used if we give web developers and programmers (they are our customers, right) power tools they can use, even if an occasional thumb gets cut off. To not do so increases the risk that we will produce yet another elegant system that will be cited in papers but not widely used. I'd be happy with a way to assert that "the following documents and the transitive closure of those they IMPORT, form a closed world wrt certain classes and properties". How reasoning agents deal with references to classes and properties in non-imported documents can be open. How reasoning agents deal with the fact the the documents change over time can be open. Whether agents choose to use NAF is a choice they can make. Tim
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