Re: [ontolog-forum] Foundation ontology, CYC, and Mapping

[Christopher Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 25, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Patrick Cassidy wrote:
> ...
>   I am well aware that for each new axiom added to an ontology, some logical 
>inferences derived from input assertions will change.      (01)

Careful there.  Classical logic, as the logicians like to say, is *monotonic*.  
Intuitively put, in classical logic, knowledge only grows; learning something 
new cannot lead you to revise what you have already deduced.  A bit more 
exactly: In classical logic, adding a new (nonredundant) axiom only gives one 
the power to prove things that one couldn't prove before.  The inferences one 
could make without the axiom will not change with its addition; nothing that 
was provable without the axiom will cease to be provable with the addition of 
the axiom.      (02)

-chris    (03)


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