RE: "Is a Property a Class" and other DAML questions

• From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
• Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:15:07 -0500
• To: lhart@grci.com
• Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
• Message-Id: <20010307181507C.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

This says that ``Property'' is a class, which is very different from saying
that a property is a class (or, equivalently, that properties are classes).

peter


From: "Hart, Lewis" <lhart@grci.com>
Subject: RE: "Is a Property a Class" and other DAML questions
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:00:58 -0500 

> Perhaps the implication is coming from this statement in the DAML+OIL spec: 
> 
> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Property">
>   <sameClassAs
> rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"/>
> </rdfs:Class>
> 
> I am not an RDF(S) expert, but to me this says that a Property is a Class.
> If this is not the case, what point am I missing?
> 
> - Lewis
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