Re: LANG: Proposal to close ontology versioning (ISSUE 5.14)

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:06, Jeff Heflin wrote:
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> Massimo, this is a really good point that I hadn't considered. If
> Automobile is the sameClassAs Car, and Car is a subClassOf
> DeprecatedClass does that make Automobile a DeprecatedClass?

no.

> If so, then
> my example is broken. However, I don't think the semantics work that
> way. I've looked at our semantic documents and it seems that
> owl:sameClassAs only means that two classes have the same extension
> (i.e., they have the same members). As far as I can tell, it says
> nothing about whether properties of the classes are the same.

Exactly right.

> Pat or
> Peter, can you correct me if I'm wrong on this?


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Received on Tuesday, 3 December 2002 10:17:16 UTC