search

CommonCoreOntology / CommonCoreOntologies

The Common Core Ontology Repository holds the current released version of the Common Core Ontology suite.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
198 stars 58 forks source link

Marriage in CCO #310

Open swartik opened 3 months ago

swartik commented 3 months ago

I'm uncertain what class Married represents. It's a subclass of Stasis of Generically Dependent Continuant. That being so, what is the GDC? The definition of Married makes reference of a legal contract. Is the GDC therefore a Directive Information Content Entity? That seems more like a marriage license than the marriage itself.

In BFO, one of the examples of relational quality is "A marriage bond". Assuming that "marriage" is a colloquial form of "marriage bond", a marriage would fit more naturally in CCO as a Stasis of Quality.

neilotte commented 3 months ago

@swartik Marriage is ambiguous. For discussion w.r.t. BFO, see section 4.5 of the following: https://philpapers.org/archive/OTTBBF.pdf

I believe in this case the intent is that cco:Marriage refers to the state during which the legal contract is valid. For this reason, it is a process and has duration and the relevant GDC would be the effective legal contract. One of the reasons I think it is preferred to model marriage in this way is that it also allows for easy timestamping in OWL, whereas performing this with a relational quality would require a three place predicate.

@APCox does my guess as to the intent seem correct?

The definition could be clearer w.r.t. the GDC in question. Any takers on a candidate revision?