Thank you Nil and Linas for the detailed answers.

 but there's just a huge amount of stuff buried in C++ code that this would 
> never be workable in practice. 
>

If the semantics is so tightly linked to the software, then, maybe it would 
be more useful instead, to have namespaces for symbols like Links per 
representation system? For example, if we have atomese `HebbianLink` 
symbol, we could say that it's namespace is `atomese`, and use a `:` to 
reference it, like `atomese:HebbianLink`. If it comes from another system, 
say, KIF, and it's symbol `revappend`, we would reference it by 
`KIF:revappend`, if OpenCyc, and it's symbol `#$colorOfObject` - as 
`opencyc:#$colorOfObject`, etc. Given that each piece of software itself 
defines the precise meaning of the links, probably the best that such 
namespaces could do, is provide unified namespace for references these 
symbols in representation systems, and to the specific code lines in 
dictionaries or code repositories, or API methods that define or implement 
them.

Then, the question is, do we have such a global namespace of symbols per 
reasoning system somewhere, which would allow to easily think about and 
combine the different reasoning systems, or is this something to discussed 
and created? What is the set of notable reasoning systems?


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