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What does an existential restriction express?

  • A.That an individual is related by a role to some instance of a concept
  • B.That every individual related by the role is of some given concept
  • C.That an individual exists satisfying a given concept
  • D.That a concept has at least one instance in the domain

Answer: A

Writing the concept of things having some child who is a doctor uses an existential restriction on the has child role, while the universal restriction says every child is a doctor, which is a different and weaker claim satisfied vacuously by the childless. Concept non-emptiness is a separate assertion. Distinguishing some from every, and noticing that the universal form is satisfied when the role is empty, is the commonest source of modelling error in these languages.

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