[sc34wg3] New SAM PSIs
Rath, Holger (empolis KL)
sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:28:22 +0100
Murray Altheim [mailto:m.altheim@open.ac.uk] wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Regardless of what DAML+OIL does, what does it *mean*? I'm
> confused. It's nonsense, AFAIK:
>
> A is superclass of subclass B
> B is superclass of subclass A
>
> That doesn't make logical sense. (I must be missing something
> here, as defining equality of two classes based on them being
> both superclasses and subclasses of each other seems to ignore
> the very definitions of superclass and subclass.)
When I remember my math classes right equality of sets
could be proven by showing that both sets are sub-sets
of each other.
It's not logical, it's math ;-)
--Holger