Re: semantics of daml:equivalentTo [was: Comments on Annotated DAML 1.6]

There is something bothering me aboutdaml:equivamentTo :
the schema specifies that it is a subProperty of both rdfs:subPropertyOf and rdfs:subClassOf.

Which means that when you state

  daml:equivalentTo( daml:Class, rdfs:Class )

you state that daml:Class is a subclass of rdfs:Class (ok),
but *also* that daml:Class is a subProperty of rdfs:Class (less ok...),
from which I can infer that daml:Class and rdfs:Class are properties (not ok at all)
(because the domain and range of rdfs:subPropertyOf are both rdf:Property)

Ok, the inference above is a bit farfetched,
but anyway, I don't think that was what you meant...

  Pierre-Antoine

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Received on Thursday, 12 October 2000 08:23:56 UTC