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Thomas B. Passin wrote, > Miles Sabin wrote: > > I've read all of those documents and there's nothing there that's > > new since Tarski on the MT front, and the rest is KIF, say, with > > angle brackets. > > > > So where's the beef? > > Sure, no one is saying rdf/owl/... is new science (though there has > been a lot of advances in, say, description logics, since Tarski, it > is not rdf that has made them), it's adapting known stuff to use on > the web, to use global identifiers, to piece together bits of > ontology, and to do so according to some standards. > > That's the potential value. IMO that's one clear example of value-subtract (DLs are too weak to express non-trivial arithmetic constraints) and one promissory note. Just how charitable am I supposed to be? Cheers, Miles
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