Re: Names for top and bottom properties

NeverProperty is another possibility for bottom.
-Alan

On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Ian Horrocks wrote:

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> I would be fine with either Top/Bottom or Universal/Empty Property.
>
> Trying to dream up names that make sense in assertions of the form  
> A property B seems a bit pointless to me -- surely we don't expect  
> ontologies to contain this kind of assertion given that they are  
> either vacuous or inconsistent.
>
> Ian
>
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> On 30 Apr 2008, at 15:03, Diego Calvanese wrote:
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>> I also like UniversalProperty.
>> An opposite could be EmptyProperty.
>>
>> - Diego
>>
>> On 30 Apr 2008, at 15:57, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
>>> On Mittwoch, 30. April 2008, Conrad Bock wrote:
>>>> Ian,
>>>>
>>>> UniversalProperty and NullProperty.
>>>>
>>>> Conrad
>>>
>>> "UniversalProperty" sounds nice, "NullProperty" not really, and  
>>> the obvious
>>> relatedness/symmetry is lost. Given that there is no good opposite
>>> of "universal", I would also vote for "TopProperty" and  
>>> "BottomProperty".
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Markus Krötzsch
>>> Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe
>>> phone +49 (0)721 608 7362          fax +49 (0)721 608 5998
>>> mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de          www  http://korrekt.org
>>
>> --
>> Diego Calvanese
>> Faculty of Computer Science         e-mail: calvanese@inf.unibz.it
>> Free University of Bozen-Bolzano    phone: +39-0471 016 160
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>> ~calvanese/
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