Recently I participated in a LinkedIn exchange initiated by the following statement:
“First-Order Predicate Logic
is quietly breaking enterprise semantics. FOPL assumes meaning can be expressed
as predicates applied to entities:
subject → predicate → object
That works beautifully in theory. It fails in
practice. Because the predicate is where ambiguity hides. So you can
build vast semantic graphs where:
– entities carry multiple meanings
– predicates encode multiple dimensions
– relationships look precise but aren’t disjoint
It scales connections. Not clarity.” –Robert
Vane