- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:51:07 -0600
- To: "McBride, Brian" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> > > There are a couple of minor nits in the example ontology: > > > > > > 1) Father is desribed as having range Man, but presumably > > > inherits domain Animal from Parent. Mother is similar. > >A mother of a fox is not human. I'd expect the domain and range >to match i.e. domain of mother is person if range is woman, or >range of mother is female animal if domain is animal. > >A real nit - sorry. No, a very good point. this is exactly the kind of issue that we need to get to grips with and which a proper semantics would make clear. It isnt trivial to specify a proper inheritance mechanism. Pat Hayes --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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