Re: Role Negation in OWL

On 12 Sep 2005, at 20:25, Matt Williams wrote:

>
> Dear List,
>
> Rather a basic question, and it may have been answered, but I couldn't
> find anything in the archives.
>
> I'm wondering if I can say "not R.C" (where R and C are a role and 
> class
> respectively). I'm trying to express a concept such as "doesn't have
> treatment with tamoxifen", so I'm not really looking for the complement
> of R, just a way of expressing that the relationship R.C won't hold for
> a particular individual.

It seems that what you mean is "not exists R.C". This is a perfectly 
good class/concept, and you can simply assert that the individual in 
question is an instance of this class.

Ian



>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Matt
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:15:10 UTC