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Re: RE : RE : Suggestion for SKOS FAQ

From: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:54:41 +0100
Message-ID: <47D7E0A1.9060505@cs.vu.nl>
To: Antoine Isaac <Antoine.Isaac@KB.nl>
CC: Simon Spero <ses@unc.edu>, "Sini, Margherita \(KCEW\)" <Margherita.Sini@fao.org>, SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org> 
"Antoine Isaac" <Antoine.Isaac@KB.nl> wrote:
> Antoniou and  Harmelen  (2003) claim in passing that transitivity in owl
>  properties is inherited - "No transitive cardinality restrictions: no 
> cardinality restrictions may be placed on transitive properties (or 
> their subproperties, which are of course also transitive, by 
> implication"

Ah, yes, that was a painful mistake in the 1st edition of the Primer (and
in the derived chapter in the Ontology Handbook).

The new editions of the Primer contain the correct version:

"No cardinality restrictions may be placed on transitive properties (or 
their *super*properties, which are of course also transitive, by implication)."

Sorry for the confusion this has caused...

Frank.
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