Do correct me if I'm wrong.

Owl full allows individuals to be treated as classes and classes to be
treated as individuals.
This means that if I have a property 'isFriendsWith', I can say 'owlClass1
isFriendsWith owlClass2'
The issue is that when I go to set a domain and range for 'isFriendsWith',
there doesn't appear
to be a way to specify whether is the domain/range is a group of classes,
individuals, or either.

Is this even important?

Furthermore, how are properties like 'rdf:type', 'rdfs:subClassOf',
'owl:equivalentClass', and 'owl:disjointWith' dealt with? They clearly do
not only link individuals but classes as well. (Which means they are
neither "Object Properties" nor "Datatype Properties")

The only intuition I have is that domain and range is mostly used for
inference and these properties are somehow built into the reasoning process.


--
Mark Fischer
Modeling & Analysis in Software Engineering Group
School of Computing
Queen's University

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