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Bird
fly: yes
Ostrich
fly: no
Pet-bird
Fifi
fly:?
isa
isa
instance
instance
Plumed ostrich
isa
No, because path length tends
to correspond to the degree of
elaboration of a class in the
knowledge base and some
classes are usually more
elaborated than others.
What we really want is to base
inheritance on idea of
inferential distance.
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