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RE: Shortcomings of Predicate Logic? (was RE: [xml-dev ] RDF

• To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>,"Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: RE: Shortcomings of Predicate Logic? (was RE: [xml-dev ] RDF Interpretation of XML documents )
• From: "Keith W. Boone" <keith@w...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:53:33 -0400
• Cc: "'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• Reply-to: <keith@w...>

It sounds to me like encoding an encyclopedia as an etch along the length of
a pin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:42 PM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: 'Mike Champion'; xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  Shortcomings of Predicate Logic? (was RE:
[xml-dev ] RDF Interpretation of XML documents )


Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> "I'm attempting to approach knowledge science by first "red-shifting" the
operating system.  That shift in systemic approach is first realized by
conjectively shifting all data when received immediately into a convolution
of the data against a sense-of-conjecture, and in so doing, literally create
a scale of meaning along the one dimension of sense as a memory retrieval
mechanism via ordinal position along this scale of sense.

Sounds like a bunch of BS dressed up in $10 words ("conjectively"!?!?).
   This is the kind of stuff that has given KR a bad name.

Mind you, as TimBL points out, hypertext was getting a bad name in the
early nineties. -Tim


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