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At 12:47 PM 5/7/01 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >At 11:14 AM 5/7/01 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > >The semantic web doesn't trip on godel or > >incompleteness. It trips on authority. > >It may well trip on authority, but this claim suggests that it also trips >on inherent limitations of logical processing. I should clarify this claim as it was made on the radio. It's not that such systems will return wrong answers - it's that there are right answers they cannot find. How that would echo through a system or whether users would even notice the missing information isn't clear. Again, if anyone has a better explanation, I'd love to see one. Otherwise, I guess I'll be calling NPR to track down the mathematician they were interviewed. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly & Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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