[topicmapmail] Re: How to best model relations with mode (assertive, modal, intention, negation) with topic maps?

[Alexander Johannesen]

On 10/26/06, Murray Altheim <murray06 at altheim.com> wrote:
> Steve Newcomb once characterized this as a great chasm,
> and indeed, I've never yet seen it convincingly crossed
> (and I include Cyc in that evaluation).

I have to chime in with an "Amen!" at this point. And I'm not going to
say much about what I think the problem is, but point out that we
humans have a tendancy to think that something that _looks_ like the
truth also then must _be_ the truth. Just like the OO paradigm in
computer programming, we think that ontology logic will solve our
epistemological problems, not because it actually *does*, but because
we think it does. It is very tempting and deceiving.

> It
> assuredly remains a very important and interesting area
> of research.

It does indeed, and I'm throwing myself into the TMRM too to see what
can be done in that space as well. I think some fuzzy logic still is
applicable in this space, but it needs to be more reliable. 2 cents.


Alex
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