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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Knowledge representation and reasoning 2 a ii Solution by
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Absorb (4) using the equivalenceThus we can takeHere is a primitive inclusion, handled by adding whenever labels a node. For literal substitution-based TBox unfolding, introduce a fresh description logic concept and replace the primitive inclusion byThis preserves the original models after forgetting : any model of the primitive inclusion extends by taking , and any model of the new definition satisfies the primitive inclusion. The fresh name is important. Replacing by alone would incorrectly assert that every non- element is an element.
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