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Part II: OWL - Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies

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Punning<br />

Description logics impose type separation, i.e. names <strong>of</strong><br />

individuals, classes, and properties must be disjoint.<br />

In <strong>OWL</strong> 2 Full, type separation does not apply.<br />

In <strong>OWL</strong> 2 DL, type separation is relaxed, but a class X and an<br />

individual X are interpreted semantically as if they were different.<br />

Father(john)<br />

SocialRole(Father)<br />

See further below on the two different semantics for <strong>OWL</strong>.<br />

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