Re: ISSUE-73 (infinite universe): REPORTED: Should owl:Thing be necessarily infinite?

Would it not be more effective to introduce a new standard class to  
OWL DL, named for example "owl:DOMAIN_THING" or similar, so that the  
correspondence of owl:THING to rdf:Resource could be maintained, but  
the universe for individuals in an OWL DL Model be confined to the  
proper subclasses of owl:DOMAIN_THING.  Would this make the overall  
model simpler in analogy with classes and sets in ZF or VN-B-G Set  
Theory?  Would it let us exclude the RDF bits required for the RDF  
serialisation from the ___domain and therefore from the reasoner and  
logic so as to avoid the problems reconciling RDF and OWL logic models?

Alan


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Alan Rector
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Received on Wednesday, 5 December 2007 10:05:10 UTC