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Re: "Is a Property a Class" and other DAML questions

From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:26:59 -0600
To: "Hart, Lewis" <lhart@grci.com>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
CC: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Message-ID: <B6CC11D1.2466E%aswartz@swartzfam.com>
Hart, Lewis <lhart@grci.com> wrote:

> Perhaps the implication is coming from this statement in the DAML+OIL spec:
> 
> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Property">
> <sameClassAs
> rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"/>
> </rdfs:Class>
> 
> I am not an RDF(S) expert, but to me this says that a Property is a Class.
> If this is not the case, what point am I missing?

Actually, I think it just says that there is a class called Property. In
other words, "Property" is a Class, but a property isn't. Which is
confusing, but hardly wrong.

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