- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:26:05 -0500
- To: schreiber@swi.psy.uva.nl
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
Having a class and a property and an individual with the same name is currently legal. I will leave the issue of whether they are ``the same'' up to philosophers. :-) peter From: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@swi.psy.uva.nl> Subject: LANG: classes as instances Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:11:10 +0100 > Would it be legal to have (in the same ontology) a statement > > Individual( x, ...) > > as well as a statement > > Class( x, ...) > > If it is legal, what would it mean, e.g. can/should it refer to the same > 'x'? > (I guess this falls under the SEM area) > > Guus > > -- > A. Th. Schreiber, SWI, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15 > NL-1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 20 525 6793 > Fax: +31 20 525 6896; E-mail: schreiber@swi.psy.uva.nl > WWW: http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/usr/Schreiber/home.html
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