Ian Horrocks wrote: (01)
> Regarding my claim that reasoners are typically used in a way that is
>actually incorrect, to the best of my knowledge none of the incomplete
>reasoners in widespread use in the ontology world even distinguish "false"
>from "don't know" -- whatever question you ask, they will return an answer.
>Thus, in order to be correct, applications would have to treat *every* "false"
>answer as "don't know". I don't know of any application that does that.
> (02)
Put another way, it is not incorrect to treat "don't know" as "false",
if "negation as failure" is a stated principle of the reasoning
algorithm. We can state the 'negation as failure' principle generally
as "if the assertion cannot be proved from the knowledge base, the
assertion is taken to be false." (03)
Of course, "proved" means that the reasoning algorithm can derive a
proof, which depends on the algorithm actually implemented in the
engine. As Ian mentioned earlier, this kind of "proof" implies that the
nature of the reasoning algorithm is, or incorporates, "model
construction", which is typical of various kinds of logic programming
engines, but there are many hybrid algorithms. (04)
-Ed (05)
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