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Re: [ontolog-forum] Requirements of computer language semantics

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From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:54:21 -0700
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From: "Ed Barkmeyer" <edbark@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Requirements of computer language semantics    (01)


JFS
>> Yes, but the basic primitives of core CL are very simple
>> and very general.  Defining multiple logics by the mapping
>> to one standard logic with a solid model theory automatically
>> insures that all of them are mutually compatible. 
> 
EB
> This is certainly a laudable goal, but
> (1) it wasn't the topic I thought we were discussing, and
> (2) it only works for FOL languages.  For logic programming languages, 
> you just don't have all the necessary semantic concepts in CL.  (And I 
> don't know what kind of language mKR really is.)
> 
RHM
After reading "Logic for Interoperability" in the "IKL Guide", it appears
that IKL is a subset of today's mKR language, because I don't enforce
the restrictions described in that section.
***** to be continued as I read further *****    (02)

Dick    (03)


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