- From: Denny Vrandecic <dvr@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:53:33 +0100
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Danny Ayers wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:33:11 -0600, ben syverson <w3@likn.org> wrote: >>What's a good or preferred way of defining something as a plural? ie, >>how to graph: >>"Person is a subclass of animal." >>"People is the plural of person." or "People is two or more person." > I would imagine that if you wanted to go deeper into the modelling it > could get tricky fast. Don't know, but I expect there are quite a few > papers around on the general subject. I wonder if you could say the > class People subclass of Person but with property members > cardinality>1..? People a subclass of Person? That would mean that every instance of "People" (for example the London Boy Choir) is also a Person. Maybe it's a better way to define a GroupOfPersons or People, that has the relationship member to the range Person. Here you may define the property with cardinality>1 as you suggested. denny -- Denny Vrandecic Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ Blog: http://semantic.nodix.net
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