Re: TEST: 6 of 7: empty universe example,

At 12:59 PM +0300 7/24/03, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>Mehrdad:
>>  In OWL-DL (as in FOL), the universe of the interpretation is always
>>  required to be a non-empty set.
>
>
>that was true in the LC documents; however a careful reeading of the current
>editors draft of the direct semantics does not indicate that the
>interpretation of owl:Thing must be non-empty.
>
>Jeremy


I'm pretty agnostic on this one, but is there some benefit to 
allowing this odd case - hard for me to believe it will ever come up 
in practice, and it does seem to be confusing people -- Peter, why 
the change?
  -JH

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