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gUFO: A Lightweight Implementation of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO)
http://purl.org/nemo/doc/gufo
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How does gUFO classify Individuals like craters, bullet holes, tool marks? #23

Closed ManuelSimoes closed 3 months ago

ManuelSimoes commented 3 months ago

How do we classify Individuals like craters, bullet holes, tool marks, etc? Are these IntrinsicAspects? And if so are they Qualities or IntrinsicModes?

jpalmeida commented 3 months ago

They are considered in UFO as parts of their hosts (as opposed to aspects inhering in them). The relation between a feature and its host is one of inseparable parthood (see Guizzardi's thesis, e.g., "We say, for instance, that a hole in a piece of cheese is an inseparable part of the cheese, not externally dependent on it.") Note that, gUFO, as a lightweight implementation of UFO does not include a specific object property for inseparable parthood, so the more general one should be used directly (or specialized if the application so requires.)