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by kstrauser 700 days ago
> Gödel proved it isn't decidable.

He did no such thing. He proved undecidable problems exist in any system powerful enough to be useful. That doesn’t make those systems useless, though.

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The trouble is the creators of OWL wanted to have performance and reliability bounds. That is, they want to make systems that act like more like a conventional database server than an SMT solver.

I think they could have made a more expressive standard and something like that might have had more appeal to people but been less consistent in terms of performance.