For a maybe more example, this paper follow that path, and gives example
(and in the same time proves the approach is fully compatible with OWL2
reasoning).


2014-06-11 15:23 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <[email protected]>:

>
> A subclass of B
> A instance of 'type of B'
> B subclass of 'C'
> B instance of 'type of C'
> C subclass of 'D'
> C instance of 'type of D'
>
> It's a bit more subtle than that, as, let's take the Taxonomy example, and
> take the <animal> class.
>
> Old classifications used to take <fish> as a taxon. It is proved right now
> that fish is not a clade. It's still a subclass of <animal> though.
>
> I claim <fish> subclass of <animal> is still correct.
> <fish> is an old taxon. But <fish> instance of <clade> is not true.
>
> If someone want to search for direct subclasses of "animal", he would
> still have "fish" as a result, maybe. Although if he is interested in
> clades only my approach works, and he would get a closer approximation of
> what modern taxonomy tree is.
>
>
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