- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:17:05 -0500 (EST)
- To: heflin@cse.lehigh.edu
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
From: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu> Subject: Re: LANG: Proposal to close ontology versioning (ISSUE 5.14) Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:06:29 -0500 [...] > 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? This doesn't even make Car a DeprecatedClass. Perhaps you mean Car is an instance of DeprecatedClass This would make Car a DeprecatedClass but would not make Automobile a DeprecatedClass. > 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. Pat or > Peter, can you correct me if I'm wrong on this? Precisely correct. > Jeff peter
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