From: pat hayes (phayes@ai.uwf.edu)
Date: 03/21/01
>Hi: > >As I was going through the reference document last night, I again >encountered the issue of equivalentTo. > >equivalentTo has been used to make two things the same. However, there are >several subrelationships of equivalentTo, including sameClassAs and >samePropertyAs. These two subrelationships then have no interesting extra >meaning, as once two things are the same, they can't be made any samer. > >So my suggestion is to do away with equivalentTo. > >Comments? Well, an alternative is to do away with all its subrelationships and just use equivalentTo for everything, including classes and properties. We could leave sameFooAs forms there simply as sugar and they would do no harm. Which I think amounts to a proposal to leave it the way it is :-) Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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