Yes, Samson, that's a great reminder.  I think that Lloyd may have stated
that earlier - but I didn't repeat it, and it's pretty easy to overlook.

Rob

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Samson Tu <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Feb 7, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Robert Hausam <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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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