Function SLOT-CARDINALITY

If a SLOT-CARDINALITY of relation R with respect to a domain class C is N, then for all instances c of class C, R maps c to exactly N individuals in the range. For single-valued relations, the slot-cardinality is 1. Specifying a SLOT-CARDINALITY is a constraint between classes and binary-relations which does not always hold; there need not be any fixed value-cardinality for R on all instances of C.

Arity: 3

Axioms:

(Nth-Domain Slot-Cardinality 3 Nonnegative-Integer)

(Nth-Domain Slot-Cardinality 2 Binary-Relation)

(Nth-Domain Slot-Cardinality 1 Class)

(<=> (Slot-Cardinality ?Domain-Class ?Binary-Relation ?N)
     (=> (Instance-Of ?Instance ?Domain-Class)
         (= (Value-Cardinality ?Instance ?Binary-Relation) ?N)))

• Defined in theory: Frame-ontology
• Source code: frame-ontology.lisp

Notes:

• See-Also: Specifying that the slot cardinality is = to some integer is equivalent to using the Loom and CLASSIC `EXACTLY' operator.

• Note that slot-cardinality is a function. That means that for any domain and relation, there is at most one integer N that can be the slot-cardinality. If there is no such fixed number, then the value of the function is undefined for the given domain and relation.