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

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:42 PM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: 'Mike Champion'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] 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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