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Re: owl:subClassOf ? [was: Re: working on it]

From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 27 Jun 2003 11:44:08 +0100
To: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1056710648.2674.110.camel@dhcp-91-136.hpl.hp.com> 

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:44, pat hayes wrote:

[...]

> >
> >If so, then Owl want a stronger notion of subClassOf than that proposed
> >in this document for rdfs:subClassOf.
> 
> It will want to impose stronger conditions on the meaning of that term, yes.

I had my stronger/weaker notions mixed up apparently.  I had taken
stronger to mean more restrictive, i.e. that

  c1 owl:subClassOf c2

|=

  c1 rdfs:subClassOf c2

But that isn't the case, right?

Brian
Received on Friday, 27 June 2003 06:45:32 EDT

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