Re: owl:FunctionalProperty question

Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:

> just a quick question, hope someone can answer this for me :
> 
> If a property P is a FunctionalProperty, are sub-properties of P also
> necessarily Functional Properties?

Yes.

Suppose Q is a subPropertyOf P and suppose you have:

   X Q V1 .
   X Q V2 .

  => (by subProperyOf)

   X P V1 .
   X P V2 .

  => (by P being functional)

   V1 = v2

Hence Q is a FunctionalProperty.

Cheers,
Dave

Received on Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:53:10 UTC