Re: hasKey axioms allowed for the empty set of properties

I put this on the agenda for this week's teleconf.

Ian


On 4 Jul 2009, at 18:09, Michael Schneider wrote:

> Hi!
>
> In the reverse RDF-Mapping of owl:hasKey, there is no constraint on  
> the size of the argument list. This means that a key axiom may be  
> defined for the empty set of properties. Also, it looks to me that  
> the empty set is allowed in the Structural Specification  
> (Functional Syntax), either.
>
> I don't think that empty key axioms are particularly useful, and I  
> can see that they have peculiar semantic ramifications.
>
> So I propose to require at least one property for key axioms in  
> both the Structural Spec and the reverse RDF-Mapping.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
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