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Re: why are properties decoupled from classes

From: Chris Purcell <chris.purcell.39@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:04:54 +0100
Message-Id: <5515b1be73ac887195b92b92ad73c854@gmail.com>
Cc: semantic-web@w3.org, Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
To: Jos de Bruijn <jos.debruijn@deri.org>

> Maybe you only care about persons which have interests. However, it
> might turn out later that organizations may also have interests. If we
> stick with the domain restriction (1), then every organization which 
> has
> an interest is actually inferred to be a Person.

Fortunately, we can simply construct a new property depicting this new 
meaning of interest, and declare the old one as a subproperty. That 
way, we limit semantic confusion, no?

Chris
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