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Re: [ontolog-forum] Current Semantic Web Layer Cake

To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Valentin Zacharias <Zacharias@xxxxxx>
Cc: Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@xxxxxxxxx>, SW-forum list <semantic-web@xxxxxx>, "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Kathryn Blackmond Laskey <klaskey@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:20:36 -0400
Message-id: <p06110455c2d92249bff9@[129.174.89.24]>
>...I could accept the idea of a common notation for if-then rules,
>but with two very clearly specified options for the semantics:
>
>   1. A purely classical FOL that is compatible with CL and its
>      subsets, such as Z, RDF(S), and OWL.
>
>   2. A negation-as-failure semantics that is compatible with the
>      ISO standard for Prolog.
>
>If you want that, then say so.  But make it very, very clear that
>the two semantics are *not* compatible -- and that no attempt to
>exchange rules between the two versions of semantics should be
>done, except under stringently controlled conditions.    (01)

The idea of a single syntax with two different incompatible semantics 
scares me.    (02)

K    (03)

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