> On Feb 7, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Robert Hausam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Lloyd, that's certainly correct with the "upper bound", given the conditions 
> that you describe.  If an instance has 5 of "something" when it's declared 
> that it should have 4, then the reasoner can clearly determine that the 
> instance is invalid. 

Not if the reasoner doesn’t know that the 5 “something” are different from each 
other. In addition to OWA, OWL doesn’t make "unique name assumption" (UNA). 
When checking cardinality constraints, in addition to OWA, you need to state 
whether the individuals are distinct.

SAmson
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