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The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview

Clay Shirky's essay arguing that the Semantic Web's reliance on syllogistic logic fails on real-world, context-dependent data.

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  • Semantic Web concept 1998 [src]
    Argues that the Semantic Web is a machine for syllogisms, which fail on slippery, partial, context-dependent data, and that any global ontology is doomed because metadata describes a worldview.

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