On Mar 13, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Richard H. McCullough wrote:
>> Chris
>>
>> 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.
>
> Neither OWL nor RDF is a programming language, so saying either one is
> "high-level" in the programming language sense is a category
> mistake; ... (01)
The point applies either way, but obviously in the context here I
should have said "low-level". (02)
> ... it makes no more sense than saying they are green or emotionally
> unstable. "High-level" in the context of ontology languages refers to
> the level of abstraction of a language's primitive constructs -- the
> higher the level, the more general the language and hence (typically)
> the fewer its primitives. (03)
-chris (04)
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