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Re: Beyond Ontologies

• To: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Subject: Re: Beyond Ontologies
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:12:28 -0400
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Bob Foster scripsit:

> But relationships do change all the time. <#Simon> :sonOf_:1 is as good an
> example as any. I assume the 1 is intended to be the cardinality, so the
> relationship might be better named sonOfFather. 

No, no.  <#Simon> :sonOf _:1 (note that you dropped a space) uses _:1 as
a label for an anonymous node, the equivalent of an existentially quantified
variable.  In plain English, it says "Simon is the son of someone."

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