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Re: [ontolog-forum] IKL mailing list for discussions?

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From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:05:05 -0700
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From: "Christopher Menzel" <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> IKL is a logical language (well, a class of logical languages) for  
> representing declarative information rigorously.  Like standard first- 
> order logic, it is not a "tool" in the sense of, say, Protege that  
> comes with built-in mechanisms for representing and reasoning upon  
> class hierarchies and the like that might help one to think about and  
> formalize the structure of information in a specific domain.  (I take  
> it you envision mKR as a tool in this sense as well, its lack of both  
> a semantics and an underlying reasoning mechanism notwithstanding.)    (01)

I consider any language to be a tool for thinking.
IKL, as a logical language, provides a tool for reasoning.
I put IKL in the class of languages like Prolog.    (02)

Dick McCullough
http://mkrmke.org    (03)

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