Re: Universal Quantification

> (If you have no kids, are all your children graduates of Yale? In 
> English you can say that is a dumb question, but logic has to say 
> either yes or no, and yes makes more sense than no does, because if 
> you say no then it would follow that one of your kids wasn't a Yale 
> graduate, but you have no kids...)

Let me see if I understand.  In the above case, you would need an 
allValuesFrom(hasChild, YaleGraduate) *and* a minCardinality 1.

And if I didn't have a minCardinality 1?  Any instance *is* a 
"ParentOfOnlyYaleGraduates", or any instance *could be* a 
"ParentOfOnlyYaleGraduates" -- in other words, it's not precluded.

> If that didn't help, forget it.

Don't give up on me so easy!  ;-)

Received on Wednesday, 5 May 2004 18:54:33 UTC