Re: [poe] Use of cardinality restrictions in the ontology?

>> If the cardinality check is only done with SHACL such a guy has to be/get familiar with SHACL too, only then s/he would be able to read the cardinality constraints.
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> The cardinality check can only be done with SHACL. OWL was never really intended to be used for the purpose of constraint validation. 

That is an important point. It can actually be misleading. A cardinality constraint in OWL + an OWL reasoner may simply deduce that some individual are identical (to be more exact, they are `owl:sameAs`) and not reveal any errors. And that deduction results may actually lead to problems.



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