RE: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

Henry Story wrote:

> On 30 Jun 2010, at 21:09, Pat Hayes wrote:
>> The Description Logic police are still in charge:-)
>
>I agree that literals can be subjects. In any case they are, because you
>just can take an inverse function from a thing to a string, and you have
>it.

I guess, the Description Logic police will be very alerted, if you start
creating inverses of properties that allow strings in object position. :-)

(That's only supported by OWL Full.)

Michael

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