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Occurrent Perdurant |
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A process can be defined only according to an entity type. The minimum process is an entity made of two entities of different types that are temporally related. The superclass for causal structure classes whose individuals have some temporal item parts that are not of the same type of the whole. Following the common definition of process, the reader may think that every entity in the EMMO should be a process, since every 4D entity0 always has a time dimension. However, in the EMMO we restrict the concept of process to items whose temporal parts show a change in type (i.e. every 4D object unfolds in time, but not every 4D time unfolding may be of interest for the ontologist and categorized as a process). The definition of every specific process subclass requires a reference type, that is expressed by some but not all temporal parts. |
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https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_43e9a05d_98af_41b4_92f6_00f79a09bfce |
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A process can be defined only according to an entity type. The minimum process is an entity made of two entities of different types that are temporally related. Following the common definition of process, the reader may think that every entity in the EMMO should be a process, since every 4D entity0 always has a time dimension. However, in the EMMO we restrict the concept of process to items whose temporal parts show a change in type (i.e. every 4D object unfolds in time, but not every 4D time unfolding may be of interest for the ontologist and categorized as a process). The definition of every specific process subclass requires a reference type, that is expressed by some but not all temporal parts. |
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Occurrent Perdurant |
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| definition |
A process can be defined only according to an entity type. The minimum process is an entity made of two entities of different types that are temporally related. The superclass for causal structure classes whose individuals have some temporal item parts that are not of the same type of the whole. Following the common definition of process, the reader may think that every entity in the EMMO should be a process, since every 4D entity0 always has a time dimension. However, in the EMMO we restrict the concept of process to items whose temporal parts show a change in type (i.e. every 4D object unfolds in time, but not every 4D time unfolding may be of interest for the ontologist and categorized as a process). The definition of every specific process subclass requires a reference type, that is expressed by some but not all temporal parts. |
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| elucidation |
The superclass for causal structure classes whose individuals have some temporal item parts that are not of the same type of the whole. |
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| example |
Practically speaking, the Process class can be populated by primitive subclasses (e.g. Cooking) for each of which holds the axiom that not all the item temporal parts are of the same type of the whole (e.g. breaking an egg, which is not necessarily a cooking process) and there are at least two temporal item parts of different types (e.g. breaking and egg and turning on the stove). The intended usage is not for an individual to belong directly to Process, but to belong to a specific subclass of Process that identifies entities with a specific non-type-persistent structure. |
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Process |
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EMMO_43e9a05d_98af_41b4_92f6_00f79a09bfce |
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Process |
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