Re: Technical tweaks to the MT, for reviewers.

>At 11:47 AM 11/8/02 -0600, pat hayes wrote:
>>2. Now that subClassOf and subPropertyOf have 'iff' semantics, that 
>>raises a slight complication: it means that anything with an empty 
>>class extension, which right now includes anything that isn't a 
>>class, is a subclass of anything, and similarly for properties. 
>>That has a lot of unintuitive consequences, and I propose to remove 
>>them by *defining* classes to be things that are in  rdfs:Class, 
>>similarly properties and rdf:Property, and then restricting the 
>>'iff' definition of subClassOf to hold only between classes, and 
>>again similarly for properties.
>
>Can someone point me at the rationale for having iff rather than if here?

Because without the IFF, subClassOf might not be transitive. 
Similarly subPropertyOf. Peter P-S noticed this a while back. BUt 
more generally, it seems best to nail down the sub-thingie meanings 
exactly since they are kind of basic.

>
>>4. Does everyone agree that   rdfs:member rdf:type 
>>rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty .  ? I can go either way, but this 
>>will require a small tweak.
>
>Hmmm... I don't know.  Why do we need rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty at all?

I'm not the person to ask. BUt in any case the consensus seems now to 
be that rdfs:member is not one of them.

Pat

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Received on Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:28:00 UTC