Definitions for children of Realizable Entity are proving hard to understand and work with

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Ongoing discussion on BFO-Discuss needs to make its way into a release of BFO 
and new 
definitions written.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 25 Jul 2007 at 3:53

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Alan, what is the status of this issue with respect to BFO 2?  If there is 
still an outstanding, can you clarify the remaining problems? 

Original comment by janna.ha...@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2012 at 9:17

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People find it difficult to make determination of whether realizable entities 
are functions, dispositions, or roles. Representative 
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3228/version/1

Problematic examples:
Substrate, Product, reagent

Social roles seem clear, being created only in certain types of processes. 
Roles of molecules are suspect previous definitions of dispositions 
characterized them as being lost only when there are structural changes. That 
wouldn't be true of roles.

There's more, but that's a start.

Original comment by alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 1 May 2012 at 8:20

• Added labels: Type-BFO2-Reference
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Original comment by alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 4:12

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Original comment by alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 4:37

• Changed state: Review-old-issue