Re: deductive databases

VC wrote:

>
> "alex goldman" <hello_at_spamm.er> wrote in message
> news:2833197.QA2ogCgjIP_at_yahoo.com...

>> ......"[In first-order logic, the term]
>> `function' is better used for predicates that possess certain properties
>> (determinism)"

Look, anonymous troll, I was hoping you'd follow the link to Quinlan's paper

J.R. Quinlan. Learning first-order definitions of *functions* . Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 5:139-161, 1996.

and find that he means by "function" exactly what I alluded to. And I'm sure you did, but being a troll, you just continue trolling instead of admitting you were wrong, namely

1. Very knowledgeable people use the term "function" to refer to certain kinds of predicates.
2. FOL courses are being taught where the term "functor" is used in place of "function symbol"

(Which, as I already indicated, is justified in view of #1 and Prolog practice)

3. You are an idiot because you resorted to insults (go read prolog 101, etc.) because your prefered terminology (if there ever was one) differs from mine.

4. Saying " `for_any X Y : car(cons(X,Y), X)` does not make any sense because it's missing a period at the end" is a sign of utter stupidy and/or trolling. Received on Tue May 17 2005 - 22:21:11 CDT