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

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From: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:59:12 -0500
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On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Richard H. McCullough wrote:    (01)

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Barkmeyer" <edbark@xxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Requirements of computer language  
> semantics
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> 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.    (02)

With that criterion, mKR is a subset of my language KR01, which has no  
grammar and no "logical"  semantics, and allows any Unicode character  
string to be a representation of knowledge. It means whatever some  
human reader thinks it means (no matter what their native human  
language is.)    (03)

Pat    (04)

> ***** to be continued as I read further *****
>
> Dick
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