Number of formulae

Dear All,

A little off-topic, but I thought that some people on the list might 
have thought about this.

Given some ontology, I am trying to work out how many (different) 
formulae we could make from it. I want to do this in order to use 
information about an ontology to be able to calculate bounds on the 
number of rules I can have (and hence the number of arguments).

I'm assuming a formula is just a conjunction of predicates, and with a 
few other assumptions, I think I have a reasonable answer.

One problem is that I started by ignoring properties (so just using 
classes) and I now want to re-introduce properties. I think one way is 
deal with functional datatype properties as "de facto" class 
definitions, and do the same for properties that have an individual as a 
role-filler. Then I can just add these "de facto" classes to the number 
of (real) classes, which makes things easier, and I have relatively 
fewer uses of properties to deal with.

I also have a whole bunch of other questions, but this is one that seems 
relatively simple, but I have some doubts.

My questions are:
1: Has anyone seen/ done anything like this?
2: Is anyone else interested in anything like this?

Thanks,

Matt



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Received on Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:44:04 UTC