RE: Universal Property

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Conrad Bock wrote:
>
> Bijan, et al,
>
> > So, would a concrete proposal that we'd introduce a owl:RoleThing"
> >  that is the superrole of all other roles? If so, for symmetry we
> >  should introduce the owl:RoleNothing (ok, better names, please!)
> >  (which would be easily definable by disjointness with
> >  owl:RoleThing).
>
> >  Aside from expressivity benefits, this would be really nice for
> >  editors, IDEs, and debugging. I've had requests for unsatisfiable
> >  role checking and lots of people want a "top" role, if just for
> >  JTree nice layoutness.
>
> +1.  I thought this was in SROIQ already.

It is in SQOIQ, but didn't make it into OWL 1.1. No idea, why.

greetings,
 		Carsten

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