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Re: [ontolog-forum] International Alliance for Interoperability

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From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:43:15 -0700
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Chris    (01)

I find it very interesting that you use the term "high-level".
Speaking from the usual context of computer programming
languages, mKR is a very high-level language, and RDF
is a low-level assembly language.    (02)

Dick    (03)

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From: "Christopher Menzel" <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] International Alliance for Interoperability    (04)


>> Note that tabula rasa distinguishes several kinds of properties  
>> (characteristics) according to space-time dependence and number of  
>> existents involved. The mKR language uses different verbs and  
>> pplists for these different kinds of properties.
>>
>> Contrast this to RDF/RDFS, which has only one kind of Property, and  
>> OWL which has only two.
> 
> Feature.  The reason for this is that OWL is not itself an ontology;  
> it is a very general, high-level framework for *creating* ontologies.   
> Consequently, at this very high level, it only distinguishes  
> "annotation properties" from "ontology properties" -- the former  
> introduced, basically, to allow certain types of explicit metadata to  
> be included in an ontology.  But one can *use* OWL to introduce as  
> many properties as one pleases into an ontology.  In particular, it  
> could be used to replicate (and, more usefully, axiomatize) your  
> "tabula rasa" hierarchy.
> 
> Chris Menzel
> 
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Dick McCullough
Ayn Rand do speak od mKR done;
mKE do enhance od Real Intelligence done;
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
http://mKRmKE.org/    (05)


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