Re: OWL semantics

Chris,

> Jos,
>
> I believe it's fairly safe to say "it may be impossible."  That is not a
> claim that it IS impossible, it is merely a claim that those of us who
> BELIEVE it is impossible await an existence proof from those who don't.

fair enough (just read his words as "... that it *is* ... impossible ...")

> If you want to make Ian change his language, I suggest you offer a 
proof.
> Even an idea of how it might be done would be a start.

right
I'm trying working out one using Euler in --think mode
and somehow along the lines of
  the proof of all proofs of ?s ?p ?o
  given an owl-theory.n3 should be a fixed-point
my motivation is
  that machines can help us a lot in these
  that we can have no comprehension axioms (maybe)
but I'm not yet there ;-)

-Jos

> -Chris
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> Dr. Christopher A. Welty, Knowledge Structures Group
> IBM Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Dr.
> Hawthorne, NY  10532     USA
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> "Jos De_Roo" <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
> Sent by: www-webont-wg-request@w3.org
> 08/05/2002 08:02 PM
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>         To:     Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
>         cc:     www-webont-wg@w3.org
>         Subject:        Re: OWL semantics
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>
> [only a very partial reply]
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> [...]
>
> > It is also worth pointing out that such axiomatisations are invariably
> > large and complex, and that it is difficult/impossible to be sure that
> > they are correct. E.g., take a look at the axiomatisation of
> > DAML+OIL/RDF in [3], which contains around 140 axioms. FOL reasoners
> > can be used to detect "obvious" inconsistencies (as happened with
> > earlier versions of [3]), but simply ironing these out is a LONG way
> > from proving that the axiomatisation correctly captures the meaning of
> > the language.
>
> that is not enough to suggest a
>   "impossible to be sure that they are correct"
> let's just call it difficult/challenging
> engineering and no more
>
> -- ,
> Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

-- ,
Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

Received on Tuesday, 6 August 2002 11:43:32 UTC