Re: [ontolog-forum] What words mean

[Christopher Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>]

> On "multi-rooted trees" - assuming that these are not a set of  
> structures that are independent of each other,    (01)

Multi-root trees (when allowed) necessarily consist of multiple  
"independent" (i.e., pairwise disconnected) single-root trees.    (02)

> having multiple roots requires that at least one node has at least  
> two parents.    (03)

By any standard definition, no such structure is a tree.    (04)

-chris    (05)


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