Re: a problem with comprehensive entailments

> > >
> > > Does your use of nested contexts and unasserted triples support the
need
> > > for this mechanism in OWL, as a solution to Peter's most recent
paradox?
> > > (this is turning into the Patel-Schneider paradox -hopefully finite-
> > > set)
> > >
> > > I am reading this as yes, but want to confirm.
> >
> > I would say yes
> > but what is that -hopefully finite- set?
> >
>
> Just a little joke, an _infinite_ set of paradoxes would be a bad thing I
> imagine -- it would probably take an infinite amount of time to resolve :
-))

What I also wanted to say is that when a blank node
is having properties attached to it so that it is
uniquely identified (e.g. an owl:UnambiguousProperty
or owl:first & owl:rest properties) then one _can_
build a functional term for that blank node so that
one can do unification of functional terms.
If such attached properties are acyclic
(as is the case when using N3's [])
then their assertions are also OK.

--
Jos

Received on Tuesday, 7 May 2002 19:30:13 UTC