Re: [ontolog-forum] web-syllogism-and-worldview

[Adrian Walker <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Len --

The problem with the "syllogisms will never work" argument is that, if you allow them to be recursive, they have Turing machine power.  That means that they can compute anything that can be computed.

At a more specific level, you can do useful real world computations with syllogisms.  Please see:

 www.reengineeringllc.com/A_Wiki_for_Business_Rules_in_Open_Vocabulary_Executable_English.pdf

 www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1Video.htm  (Flash video with audio)

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Len Yabloko <lenya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I came across this article while using Twine. This sounds a lot like some of the discussions on this forum. Although I don't have a particular position on the issue, I am very interested in comments.

http://www.twine.com/item/11nf8n6bg-csn/shirky-the-semantic-web-syllogism-and-worldview

BTW, Twine seems to be a good format for forums like this one - better than Wiki (IMH0)



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