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

Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN wrote:
> 
> 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...),

oops! That _is_ broken.

Darn... I was hoping that I could get rdfs-aware agents to conclude
	rdfs:subClassOf(X, Y)
for free from
	daml:equivalentTo(X, Y)

by way of subPropertyOf. But I guess I need

	daml:sameClassAs(X, Y)
which is a supPropertyOf rdfs:subClass and daml:equivalentTo.
Likewise for Properties.

> 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...


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Received on Thursday, 12 October 2000 09:26:13 UTC