Re: Reminder: pending discussion "membership" (pending discussion on ACTION-350)

> >> RDF's subclassOf does not cut it because
> >>
> >> 1. It imposes additional axioms, which are not commonly accepted.
> >
> >   Do you have references to back up this statement?
> 
> Why are # ## then more commonly accepted (it seems from the discussion
> that they aren't

who said they are?

Since RDF is out there, its notion of subclass can be said to be more common.
But I would not claim that it is more commonly accepted because, from my
experience, people do not understand its implications and do not give a
damn, since most applications are trivial.

> and they are syntactic sugar anyway)? Anyone can define a
> dialect where the additionally implied axioms for # and ## hold...

# and ## do not have additional axioms. They have fewer axioms.



	--michael  

Received on Monday, 10 December 2007 17:06:29 UTC