Re: Suggested changes to concrete datatypes proposal

From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider (pfps@research.bell-labs.com)
Date: 01/30/01


This problem can be removed by employing the (admittedly counter-intuitive)
notion of having complement be relative to the abstract sub-domain.

peter


From: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Suggested changes to concrete datatypes proposal
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:38:20 +0000 (GMT)

> Peter,
> 
> As you say, preventing 3 from degenerating into 1 is difficult. I
> think that what you have proposed below suffers from the problem I
> mentioned in my reply to Jeff. i.e., when you negate modal atoms you
> get an implicit union of abstract and concrete types. This is the
> reason for having separate concrete and abstract properties.
> 
> Ian


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