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From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:07:19 -0500
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Bill,    (01)

You could define a systematic naming convention for such cases:    (02)

> How about this one, then?
> 
>       (forall ((x human)) (exists ((y human_arm)) (part x y)))
> 
> which also violates, for anatomically normal humans, uniqueness.  I  
> believe that the U-Wash Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA), which is  
> meant to be a normative model of human anatomy, contains many such  
> axioms.    (03)

If it's not unique, then name the function aHumanArmOf(x).    (04)

If it's unique, then name the function theHeadOf(x).    (05)

John    (06)


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