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Re: [ontolog-forum] mKR programming language

To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard H.McCullough <rhm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:06:02 -0500
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On Mar 14, 2009, at 12:06 AM, Richard H. McCullough wrote:    (01)

> Rhetorical question:
>    why should a knowledge representation language
>    resemble a programming language?
> Answer:
>    because you need to describe actions of entities    (02)

Good question, wrong answer. It should not be like a programming  
language because much of what you want to represent has nothing at all  
to do with actions; and because even when it does, you want to  
_describe_ the actions, not implement or imitate them (running a  
program to go to the store should result in your being at the store);  
and because you want to be able to reason _about_ the actions, not  
simply achieve them in a simulation.    (03)

Pat H    (04)

>
> Compare:
>    John Doe do walk to the grocery store done;
>    ke do write od tabula rasa to TabulaRasa.ho done;
> (In the second case, "ke" is usually omitted.)
>
>
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