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Re: 'all resources' is not a set

From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:33:05 -0400
Message-Id: <200309291533.h8TFX6L8002376@roke.hawke.org>
To: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
Cc: "LYNN,JAMES (HP-USA,ex1)" <james.lynn@hp.com>, public-sw-meaning@w3.org


> >So would it be useful to have, as a convenience, some kind of
> >"owl:intensionsl" attribute?
> 
> No, because OWL (unlike RDFS) is entirely based on an extensional 
> (non-intensional) semantics. So it would be kind of meaningless in 
> OWL.
> 
> BTW, if this answer makes you feel like tearing your hear out, join  the club

It doesn't, but that's probably just because I don't understand.  :-)

Can you explain, maybe with a simple example of something that's very
similar but crucially different, using OWL vs RDFS?

   -- sandro
Received on Monday, 29 September 2003 11:34:26 GMT

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