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Multiple Inheritance (MI) Viewing

If you can get the whole ontology in one view, selections can clearly indicate multiple inheritance. Here's a shot of a version of the Galen ontology (only the upper part which contains 175 classes) (screenshot comes with an earlier version of CropCircles, so the colors are a bit different from the current version):

See how there are three highlighted circles? They represent the class "Group" (and its subclasses) which has three immediate parent classes: Discrete_entity, Complex, and Continuant_entity. There's another case of MI...see if you can spot it just structurally.

Compare with this GraphVizy view from a presentation

Note that it clearly doesn't display all the classes. Also, you can see "group" up top toward the left: The links to its other superclasses are quite obscured.