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Re: [ontolog-forum] is CycL decidable?

To: "Jie Bao" <baojie@xxxxxxxxx>
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From: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:06:41 -0500
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>Greets for all.
>
>I wish there is somebody that knows the answers to the following
>questions, or the right reference that addressing those questions.
>
>Is the CycL language (for Cyc) in general decidable?    (01)

No.    (02)

>  It is a
>frame-based language, or a subset  of FOL?    (03)

Superset of FOL, I believe. It is FOL with a 
variety of context ("micro-theory") inferences 
added to it.    (04)

No doubt you can get more precise answers from Cycorp, however.    (05)

Pat Hayes    (06)

>If it is a subset of FOL,
>which subset it is?
>
>Thank you in advance for your kind attention.
>
>--
>Jie Bao
>Department of Computer Science
>Iowa State University
>http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~baojie
>baojie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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