- From: Kashyap, Vipul <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 07:14:47 -0400
- To: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, "OWL Working Group WG" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
> Individual(Sarkozy type(Restriction(isPresidentOf allValuesFrom
> (complementOf(oneOf(USA))))))
The above statement says:
"If Sarkozy is the president of a country than that country is a country other
than the USA".
This to me appears different from "Sarkozy is not the president of USA".
How about the following formulation (Please excuse incorrect syntax):
Individual(Sarkoy type(Restriction(= 0 isPresidentOf oneOf{USA)}))
I would assume that the above two formulations are logically equivalent but the
latter seems closer to the negated assertion.
In a more general context, given that there might be multiple ways of saying the
same thing, would it be of interest to propose best practices/style guides for
these situations?
At the same time, I think this syntactic sugar offers a big value add for
ontology authors seeking to develop simpler ontologies.
---Vipul
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