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Re: [ontolog-forum] Semantic v. Pragmatic Web

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From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 02:34:54 -0700
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That's a design feature of the RDF, OWL languages,
not the Semantic Web.
Use the mKR language to buy your pizza.
 
Dick McCullough
http://mkrmke.org
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Barker" <sean.barker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ontolog-Forum-Bounces" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:11 AM
Subject: [ontolog-forum] Semantic v. Pragmatic Web

> In the theoy of the sematic web, I can identify whether a particular pizza
> is the one I want to buy, and in theory I could identify if I've already
> ordered one (There exists order...), however I see no logical way of
> actually buying it. That is, holding fast to the distinction between
> semantics and pragmatics implies that semantic web must necessarily
> incomplete, because logic does not deal with performative utterenaces, such
> as "I'd like to buy a pizza".
>
> 1) Is this true?
>
> 2) If it is true, is this a design feature of the web?
>
> 3) If it is not true, how are pragmatics assert in FOL?
>
> Note: I tend to assume that it is not true on the basis of the following
> program fragment intermixing VDM and Pascal
>
> VDM:    TRUE
> Pascal: x:= 3;
> VDM:   (x = 3)
>
> That is VDM could assert pre-  and post-conditions, but was not itself
> executable. At the time I looked at this there was some discussion of
> executable specifications, but I didn't follow this up.
>
> Sean Barker
> Bristol, UK
>

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