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As far as I'm concerned its most damning property is being all about relations but having no easy way to express properties of those relations.

It's easy to express "<something> isa <cat>", but significantly harder to express "<something> isa <cat> with probability 98%". And all attempts to express the later just look like you're trying to build an impromptu relational database in order to fit an n-ary relationship.



<person> <has_diagnosis> <diagnosis>

<diagnosis> <diagnosis_type> <ADHD>

<diagnosis> <diagnosis_probability> <high>


well done!




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