OEO Ontology

Overview / Open Energy Ontology / Class - specifically dependent continuant
Label: specifically dependent continuant
Definition:
b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])

Sub classes:
quality
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realizable entity
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vehicle operational mode
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Definition:
A vehicle operational mode is a realizable entity that determines how a vehicle is operating.

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continuant
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Definition:
An entity that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts.

Editor note:
BFO 2 Reference: Continuant entities are entities which can be sliced to yield parts only along the spatial dimension, yielding for example the parts of your table which we call its legs, its top, its nails. ‘My desk stretches from the window to the door. It has spatial parts, and can be sliced (in space) in two. With respect to time, however, a thing is a continuant.’ [60, p. 240

Editor note:
Continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example, in an expansion involving bringing in some of Ceuster's other portions of reality, questions are raised as to whether universals are continuants