RE: Issue 5.19 Classes-as-instances

> > Description: (informative)
> >
> > If two URIrefs denote the same thing, then their class
> extensions are also
> > the same.
> >
> >
> > premises
> > ========
> >
> > first:thing owl:sameInstanceAs first:sameThing .
> >
> > conclusions
> > ===========
> >
> > first:thing owl:sameClassAs first:sameThing .
> >
> >

Ian:
> Name separation is not an inherent requirement of Fast OWL, and is not
> enforced in the abstract syntax - individuals and classes can have the
> same names, but are not logically connected.
>
> Name separation is required, however, if Fast OWL is to be embedded in
> RDFS in such a way as to be semantically compatible with Large OWL.
>
> Ian
>

One way of moving forward would then be to allow classes-as-instances in all
OWLs but to make (large owl) entailments that relate the two (like this test
case) not a Fast OWL requirement (and hence not an OWL Lite requirement).

Jeremy

Received on Friday, 25 October 2002 08:33:57 UTC