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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl#"
xml:base="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:obo="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/"
xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#"
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
xmlns:terms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<owl:Ontology rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl">
<owl:versionIRI rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2019-08-26/bfo.owl"/>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">BFO 2 Reference: BFO does not claim to provide complete coverage of entities of all types. It seeks only to provide coverage of those entities studied by empirical science together with those entities which affect or are involved in human activities such as data processing and planning - coverage that is sufficiently broad to provide assistance to those engaged in building domain ontologies for purposes of data annotation.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000116>BFO 2 Reference: BFO's treatment of continuants and occurrents - as also its treatment of regions, rests on a dichotomy between space and time, and on the view that there are two perspectives on reality - earlier called the 'SNAP' and 'SPAN' perspectives, both of which are essential to the non-reductionist representation of reality as we understand it from the best available science.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000116>BFO 2 Reference: For both terms and relational expressions in BFO, we distinguish between primitive and defined. 'Entity' is an example of a primitive term. Primitive terms in a highest-level ontology such as BFO are terms that are so basic to our understanding of reality that there is no way of defining them in a non-circular fashion. For these, therefore, we can provide only elucidations, supplemented by examples and by axioms.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<terms:title>Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) 2.0</terms:title>
<terms:description>BFO 2.0 implemented in the Web Ontology Language (OWL 2) with direct semantics.</terms:description>
<dc:contributor>Alan Ruttenberg</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Albert Goldfain</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Barry Smith</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Bill Duncan</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Bjoern Peters</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Chris Mungall</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>David Osumi-Sutherland</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Fabian Neuhaus</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Holger Stenzhorn</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>James A. Overton</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Janna Hastings</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Jie Zheng</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Jonathan Bona</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Larry Hunter</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Leonard Jacuzzo</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Ludger Jansen</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Mark Ressler</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Mathias Brochhausen</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Mauricio Almeida</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Melanie Courtot</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Pierre Grenon</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Randall Dipert</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Ron Rudnicki</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Selja Seppälä</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Stefan Schulz</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Thomas Bittner</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Werner Ceusters</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Yongqun "Oliver" He</dc:contributor>
<terms:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"/>
<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Please see the project site https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO, the bfo2 owl discussion group http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-owl-devel, the bfo2 discussion group http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-devel, the tracking google doc http://goo.gl/IlrEE, and the current version of the bfo2 reference http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/dev/bfo2-reference.docx. This ontology is generated from a specification at https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/tree/master/src/ontology/owl-group/specification/ and with the code that generates the OWL version in https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/tree/master/src/tools/. A very early version of BFO version 2 in CLIF is at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/dev/bfo.clif.</rdfs:comment>
<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The BSD license on the BFO project site refers to code used to build BFO.</rdfs:comment>
<rdfs:comment>This BFO 2.0 version represents a major update to BFO and is not strictly backwards compatible with BFO 1.1. The previous OWL version of BFO, version 1.1.1 will remain available at http://ifomis.org/bfo/1.1 and will no longer be updated. The BFO 2.0 OWL is a classes-only specification. The incorporation of core relations has been held over for a later version.</rdfs:comment>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/dev/bfo.clif"/>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/tree/master/src/ontology/owl-group/specification/"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-devel"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-discuss"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-owl-devel"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/dev/owl"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/tree/master/src/tools/"/>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://basic-formal-ontology.org/"/>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://ifomis.org/bfo"/>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource="https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO"/>
<foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:bfo-owl-devel@googlegroups.com"/>
</owl:Ontology>
<!--
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Annotation properties
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-->
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000179 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000179">
<obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">Relates an entity in the ontology to the name of the variable that is used to represent it in the code that generates the BFO OWL file from the lispy specification.</obo:IAO_0000115>
<obo:IAO_0000232 xml:lang="en">Really of interest to developers only</obo:IAO_0000232>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">BFO OWL specification label</rdfs:label>
<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label"/>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000180 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000180">
<obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">Relates an entity in the ontology to the term that is used to represent it in the the CLIF specification of BFO2</obo:IAO_0000115>
<obo:IAO_0000119>Person:Alan Ruttenberg</obo:IAO_0000119>
<obo:IAO_0000232 xml:lang="en">Really of interest to developers only</obo:IAO_0000232>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">BFO CLIF specification label</rdfs:label>
<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label"/>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000111 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000111">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">editor preferred term</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000112 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000112">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">example of usage</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000115 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000115">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">definition</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">editor note</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000117 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000117">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">term editor</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000118 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000118">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">alternative term</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000119 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000119">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">definition source</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000232 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000232">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">curator note</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000412 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000412">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">imported from</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">elucidation</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">has associated axiom(nl)</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">has associated axiom(fol)</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0010000 -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0010000">
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">has axiom label</rdfs:label>
</owl:AnnotationProperty>
<!-- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor"/>
<!-- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/member -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/member"/>
<!-- http://purl.org/dc/terms/license -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.org/dc/terms/license"/>
<!-- http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#isDefinedBy -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#isDefinedBy"/>
<!-- http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#seeAlso -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#seeAlso"/>
<!-- http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage"/>
<!-- http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox -->
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox"/>
<!--
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Classes
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-->
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>entity</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>Entity</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">Julius Caesar</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">Verdi’s Requiem</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the Second World War</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">your body mass index</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">BFO 2 Reference: In all areas of empirical inquiry we encounter general terms of two sorts. First are general terms which refer to universals or types:animaltuberculosissurgical procedurediseaseSecond, are general terms used to refer to groups of entities which instantiate a given universal but do not correspond to the extension of any subuniversal of that universal because there is nothing intrinsic to the entities in question by virtue of which they – and only they – are counted as belonging to the given group. Examples are: animal purchased by the Emperortuberculosis diagnosed on a Wednesdaysurgical procedure performed on a patient from Stockholmperson identified as candidate for clinical trial #2056-555person who is signatory of Form 656-PPVpainting by Leonardo da VinciSuch terms, which represent what are called ‘specializations’ in [81</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">Entity doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example Werner Ceusters 'portions of reality' include 4 sorts, entities (as BFO construes them), universals, configurations, and relations. It is an open question as to whether entities as construed in BFO will at some point also include these other portions of reality. See, for example, 'How to track absolutely everything' at http://www.referent-tracking.com/_RTU/papers/CeustersICbookRevised.pdf</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [001-001])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">entity</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Entity doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example Werner Ceusters 'portions of reality' include 4 sorts, entities (as BFO construes them), universals, configurations, and relations. It is an open question as to whether entities as construed in BFO will at some point also include these other portions of reality. See, for example, 'How to track absolutely everything' at http://www.referent-tracking.com/_RTU/papers/CeustersICbookRevised.pdf</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000004"/>
<rdfs:comment>per discussion with Barry Smith</rdfs:comment>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://www.referent-tracking.com/_RTU/papers/CeustersICbookRevised.pdf"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [001-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/001-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>continuant</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>Continuant</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">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</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">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</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [008-002])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">if b is a continuant and if, for some t, c has_continuant_part b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [126-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">if b is a continuant and if, for some t, cis continuant_part of b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [009-002])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">if b is a material entity, then there is some temporal interval (referred to below as a one-dimensional temporal region) during which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [011-002])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (continuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [009-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (hasContinuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [126-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (Continuant x) (Entity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [008-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (Material Entity x) (exists (t) (and (TemporalRegion t) (existsAt x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [011-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">continuant</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (Continuant x) (Entity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [008-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/008-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (Material Entity x) (exists (t) (and (TemporalRegion t) (existsAt x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [011-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/011-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">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</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000007"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [008-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/008-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">if b is a continuant and if, for some t, c has_continuant_part b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [126-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/126-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">if b is a continuant and if, for some t, cis continuant_part of b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [009-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/009-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">if b is a material entity, then there is some temporal interval (referred to below as a one-dimensional temporal region) during which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [011-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/011-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (continuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [009-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/009-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (hasContinuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [126-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/126-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>occurrent</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>Occurrent</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">BFO 2 Reference: every occurrent that is not a temporal or spatiotemporal region is s-dependent on some independent continuant that is not a spatial region</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">BFO 2 Reference: s-dependence obtains between every process and its participants in the sense that, as a matter of necessity, this process could not have existed unless these or those participants existed also. A process may have a succession of participants at different phases of its unfolding. Thus there may be different players on the field at different times during the course of a football game; but the process which is the entire game s-depends_on all of these players nonetheless. Some temporal parts of this process will s-depend_on on only some of the players.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">Occurrent doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the sum of a process and the process boundary of another process.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000116>Simons uses different terminology for relations of occurrents to regions: Denote the spatio-temporal location of a given occurrent e by 'spn[e]' and call this region its span. We may say an occurrent is at its span, in any larger region, and covers any smaller region. Now suppose we have fixed a frame of reference so that we can speak not merely of spatio-temporal but also of spatial regions (places) and temporal regions (times). The spread of an occurrent, (relative to a frame of reference) is the space it exactly occupies, and its spell is likewise the time it exactly occupies. We write 'spr[e]' and `spl[e]' respectively for the spread and spell of e, omitting mention of the frame.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the instantaneous boundary of such an entity (for example a beginning or an ending) or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region which such an entity occupies_temporal_region or occupies_spatiotemporal_region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [077-002])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">Every occurrent occupies_spatiotemporal_region some spatiotemporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [108-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">b is an occurrent entity iff b is an entity that has temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [079-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (Occurrent x) (exists (r) (and (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x r))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [108-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (iff (Occurrent x) (and (Entity x) (exists (y) (temporalPartOf y x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [079-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">occurrent</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Occurrent doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the sum of a process and the process boundary of another process.</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000006"/>
<rdfs:comment>per discussion with Barry Smith</rdfs:comment>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>Simons uses different terminology for relations of occurrents to regions: Denote the spatio-temporal location of a given occurrent e by 'spn[e]' and call this region its span. We may say an occurrent is at its span, in any larger region, and covers any smaller region. Now suppose we have fixed a frame of reference so that we can speak not merely of spatio-temporal but also of spatial regions (places) and temporal regions (times). The spread of an occurrent, (relative to a frame of reference) is the space it exactly occupies, and its spell is likewise the time it exactly occupies. We write 'spr[e]' and `spl[e]' respectively for the spread and spell of e, omitting mention of the frame.</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000012"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the instantaneous boundary of such an entity (for example a beginning or an ending) or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region which such an entity occupies_temporal_region or occupies_spatiotemporal_region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [077-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/077-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Every occurrent occupies_spatiotemporal_region some spatiotemporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [108-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/108-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">b is an occurrent entity iff b is an entity that has temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [079-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/079-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (Occurrent x) (exists (r) (and (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x r))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [108-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/108-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (iff (Occurrent x) (and (Entity x) (exists (y) (temporalPartOf y x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [079-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/079-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000031"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>ic</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>IndependentContinuant</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">a chair</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">a heart</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">a leg</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">a molecule</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">a spatial region</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">an atom</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">an orchestra.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">an organism</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the bottom right portion of a human torso</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the interior of your mouth</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])</obo:IAO_0000115>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">For any independent continuant b and any time t there is some spatial region r such that b is located_in r at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [134-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">For every independent continuant b and time t during the region of time spanned by its life, there are entities which s-depends_on b during t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [018-002])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x t) (if (IndependentContinuant x) (exists (r) (and (SpatialRegion r) (locatedInAt x r t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [134-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x t) (if (and (IndependentContinuant x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (Entity y) (specificallyDependsOnAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [018-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(iff (IndependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (not (exists (b t) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [017-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">independent continuant</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000115"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/017-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">For any independent continuant b and any time t there is some spatial region r such that b is located_in r at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [134-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/134-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">For every independent continuant b and time t during the region of time spanned by its life, there are entities which s-depends_on b during t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [018-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/018-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x t) (if (IndependentContinuant x) (exists (r) (and (SpatialRegion r) (locatedInAt x r t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [134-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/134-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x t) (if (and (IndependentContinuant x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (Entity y) (specificallyDependsOnAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [018-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/018-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(iff (IndependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (not (exists (b t) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [017-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/017-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000141"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000029"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000140"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>s-region</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>SpatialRegion</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">BFO 2 Reference: Spatial regions do not participate in processes.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">All continuant parts of spatial regions are spatial regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [036-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x y t) (if (and (SpatialRegion x) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)) (SpatialRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [036-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (SpatialRegion x) (Continuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [035-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">spatial region</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional.</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000002"/>
<rdfs:comment>per discussion with Barry Smith</rdfs:comment>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/035-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">All continuant parts of spatial regions are spatial regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [036-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/036-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x y t) (if (and (SpatialRegion x) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)) (SpatialRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [036-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/036-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (SpatialRegion x) (Continuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [035-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/035-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000015"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000035"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>t-region</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>TemporalRegion</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">Temporal region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of a temporal instant and a temporal interval that doesn't overlap the instant. In this case the resultant temporal region is neither 0-dimensional nor 1-dimensional</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">A temporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of time as defined relative to some reference frame. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [100-001])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">All parts of temporal regions are temporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [101-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">Every temporal region t is such that t occupies_temporal_region t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [119-002])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (r) (if (TemporalRegion r) (occupiesTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [119-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x y) (if (and (TemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (TemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [101-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (TemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [100-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">temporal region</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Temporal region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of a temporal instant and a temporal interval that doesn't overlap the instant. In this case the resultant temporal region is neither 0-dimensional nor 1-dimensional</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000003"/>
<rdfs:comment>per discussion with Barry Smith</rdfs:comment>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">A temporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of time as defined relative to some reference frame. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [100-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/100-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">All parts of temporal regions are temporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [101-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/101-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Every temporal region t is such that t occupies_temporal_region t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [119-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/119-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (r) (if (TemporalRegion r) (occupiesTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [119-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/119-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x y) (if (and (TemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (TemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [101-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/101-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (TemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [100-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/100-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000009 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000009">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000028"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>2d-s-region</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">an infinitely thin plane in space.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the surface of a sphere-shaped part of space</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">A two-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of two dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [039-001])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [039-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">two-dimensional spatial region</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000009"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">A two-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of two dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [039-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/039-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000009"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [039-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/039-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>st-region</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>SpatiotemporalRegion</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the spatiotemporal region occupied by a human life</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the spatiotemporal region occupied by a process of cellular meiosis.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumor</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of spacetime. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [095-001])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">All parts of spatiotemporal regions are spatiotemporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [096-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">Each spatiotemporal region at any time t projects_onto some spatial region at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [099-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">Each spatiotemporal region projects_onto some temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [098-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">Every spatiotemporal region occupies_spatiotemporal_region itself.</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">Every spatiotemporal region s is such that s occupies_spatiotemporal_region s. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [107-002])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (r) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [107-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x t) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (SpatialRegion y) (spatiallyProjectsOntoAt x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [099-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x y) (if (and (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (SpatioTemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [096-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [095-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (TemporalRegion y) (temporallyProjectsOnto x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [098-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">spatiotemporal region</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of spacetime. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [095-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/095-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">All parts of spatiotemporal regions are spatiotemporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [096-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/096-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Each spatiotemporal region at any time t projects_onto some spatial region at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [099-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/099-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Each spatiotemporal region projects_onto some temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [098-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/098-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Every spatiotemporal region s is such that s occupies_spatiotemporal_region s. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [107-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/107-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (r) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [107-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/107-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x t) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (SpatialRegion y) (spatiallyProjectsOntoAt x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [099-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/099-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x y) (if (and (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (SpatioTemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [096-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/096-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [095-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/095-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (TemporalRegion y) (temporallyProjectsOnto x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [098-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/098-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000015 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000015">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>process</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>Process</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">a process of cell-division, \ a beating of the heart</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">a process of meiosis</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">a process of sleeping</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the course of a disease</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the flight of a bird</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the life of an organism</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">your process of aging.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])</obo:IAO_0000115>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">BFO 2 Reference: The realm of occurrents is less pervasively marked by the presence of natural units than is the case in the realm of independent continuants. Thus there is here no counterpart of ‘object’. In BFO 1.0 ‘process’ served as such a counterpart. In BFO 2.0 ‘process’ is, rather, the occurrent counterpart of ‘material entity’. Those natural – as contrasted with engineered, which here means: deliberately executed – units which do exist in the realm of occurrents are typically either parasitic on the existence of natural units on the continuant side, or they are fiat in nature. Thus we can count lives; we can count football games; we can count chemical reactions performed in experiments or in chemical manufacturing. We cannot count the processes taking place, for instance, in an episode of insect mating behavior.Even where natural units are identifiable, for example cycles in a cyclical process such as the beating of a heart or an organism’s sleep/wake cycle, the processes in question form a sequence with no discontinuities (temporal gaps) of the sort that we find for instance where billiard balls or zebrafish or planets are separated by clear spatial gaps. Lives of organisms are process units, but they too unfold in a continuous series from other, prior processes such as fertilization, and they unfold in turn in continuous series of post-life processes such as post-mortem decay. Clear examples of boundaries of processes are almost always of the fiat sort (midnight, a time of death as declared in an operating theater or on a death certificate, the initiation of a state of war)</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(iff (Process a) (and (Occurrent a) (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)) (exists (c t) (and (MaterialEntity c) (specificallyDependsOnAt a c t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [083-003] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">process</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000015"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000115"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/083-003"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000015"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(iff (Process a) (and (Occurrent a) (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)) (exists (c t) (and (MaterialEntity c) (specificallyDependsOnAt a c t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [083-003] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/083-003"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000023"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>disposition</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>Disposition</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">an atom of element X has the disposition to decay to an atom of element Y</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">certain people have a predisposition to colon cancer</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">children are innately disposed to categorize objects in certain ways.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the cell wall is disposed to filter chemicals in endocytosis and exocytosis</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">BFO 2 Reference: Dispositions exist along a strength continuum. Weaker forms of disposition are realized in only a fraction of triggering cases. These forms occur in a significant number of cases of a similar type.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">b is a disposition means: b is a realizable entity & b’s bearer is some material entity & b is such that if it ceases to exist, then its bearer is physically changed, & b’s realization occurs when and because this bearer is in some special physical circumstances, & this realization occurs in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [062-002])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">If b is a realizable entity then for all t at which b exists, b s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [063-002])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x t) (if (and (RealizableEntity x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (specificallyDepends x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [063-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (Disposition x) (and (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (bearerOfAt x y t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [062-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">disposition</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">b is a disposition means: b is a realizable entity & b’s bearer is some material entity & b is such that if it ceases to exist, then its bearer is physically changed, & b’s realization occurs when and because this bearer is in some special physical circumstances, & this realization occurs in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [062-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/062-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">If b is a realizable entity then for all t at which b exists, b s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [063-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/063-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x t) (if (and (RealizableEntity x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (specificallyDepends x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [063-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/063-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (Disposition x) (and (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (bearerOfAt x y t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [062-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/062-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>realizable</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>RealizableEntity</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the disposition of this piece of metal to conduct electricity.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the disposition of your blood to coagulate</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the function of your reproductive organs</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the role of being a doctor</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the role of this boundary to delineate where Utah and Colorado meet</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">To say that b is a realizable entity is to say that b is a specifically dependent continuant that inheres in some independent continuant which is not a spatial region and is of a type instances of which are realized in processes of a correlated type. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [058-002])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">All realizable dependent continuants have independent continuants that are not spatial regions as their bearers. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [060-002])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x t) (if (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (bearerOfAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [060-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (RealizableEntity x) (and (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (inheresIn x y)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [058-002] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">realizable entity</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">To say that b is a realizable entity is to say that b is a specifically dependent continuant that inheres in some independent continuant which is not a spatial region and is of a type instances of which are realized in processes of a correlated type. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [058-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/058-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">All realizable dependent continuants have independent continuants that are not spatial regions as their bearers. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [060-002])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/060-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x t) (if (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (bearerOfAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [060-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/060-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (RealizableEntity x) (and (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (inheresIn x y)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [058-002] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/058-002"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000018 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000018">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000028"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>0d-s-region</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">A zero-dimensional spatial region is a point in space. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [037-001])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [037-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">zero-dimensional spatial region</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000018"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">A zero-dimensional spatial region is a point in space. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [037-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/037-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000018"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [037-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/037-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>quality</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>Quality</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the ambient temperature of this portion of air</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the color of a tomato</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the length of the circumference of your waist</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the mass of this piece of gold.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the shape of your nose</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the shape of your nostril</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000600 xml:lang="en">a quality is a specifically dependent continuant that, in contrast to roles and dispositions, does not require any further process in order to be realized. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [055-001])</obo:IAO_0000600>
<obo:IAO_0000601 xml:lang="en">If an entity is a quality at any time that it exists, then it is a quality at every time that it exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [105-001])</obo:IAO_0000601>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (Quality x) (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [055-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(forall (x) (if (exists (t) (and (existsAt x t) (Quality x))) (forall (t_1) (if (existsAt x t_1) (Quality x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [105-001] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">quality</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000600"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">a quality is a specifically dependent continuant that, in contrast to roles and dispositions, does not require any further process in order to be realized. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [055-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/055-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000601"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">If an entity is a quality at any time that it exists, then it is a quality at every time that it exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [105-001])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/105-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (Quality x) (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [055-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/055-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(forall (x) (if (exists (t) (and (existsAt x t) (Quality x))) (forall (t_1) (if (existsAt x t_1) (Quality x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [105-001] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/105-001"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002"/>
<owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000031"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>sdc</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>SpecificallyDependentContinuant</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">Reciprocal specifically dependent continuants: the function of this key to open this lock and the mutually dependent disposition of this lock: to be opened by this key</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">of one-sided specifically dependent continuants: the mass of this tomato</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">of relational dependent continuants (multiple bearers): John’s love for Mary, the ownership relation between John and this statue, the relation of authority between John and his subordinates.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the disposition of this fish to decay</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the function of this heart: to pump blood</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the mutual dependence of proton donors and acceptors in chemical reactions [79</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the mutual dependence of the role predator and the role prey as played by two organisms in a given interaction</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the pink color of a medium rare piece of grilled filet mignon at its center</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the role of being a doctor</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the shape of this hole.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the smell of this portion of mozzarella</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">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])</obo:IAO_0000115>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">Specifically dependent continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. We're not sure what else will develop here, but for example there are questions such as what are promises, obligation, etc.</obo:IAO_0000116>
<obo:IAO_0000602>(iff (SpecificallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (forall (t) (if (existsAt a t) (exists (b) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (not (SpatialRegion b)) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [050-003] </obo:IAO_0000602>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">specifically dependent continuant</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000115"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">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])</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/050-003"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000116"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget xml:lang="en">Specifically dependent continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. We're not sure what else will develop here, but for example there are questions such as what are promises, obligation, etc.</owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000005"/>
<rdfs:comment>per discussion with Barry Smith</rdfs:comment>
</owl:Axiom>
<owl:Axiom>
<owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020"/>
<owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000602"/>
<owl:annotatedTarget>(iff (SpecificallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (forall (t) (if (existsAt a t) (exists (b) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (not (SpatialRegion b)) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [050-003] </owl:annotatedTarget>
<obo:IAO_0010000 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/050-003"/>
</owl:Axiom>
<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000023 -->
<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000023">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017"/>
<obo:BFO_0000179>role</obo:BFO_0000179>
<obo:BFO_0000180>Role</obo:BFO_0000180>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">John’s role of husband to Mary is dependent on Mary’s role of wife to John, and both are dependent on the object aggregate comprising John and Mary as member parts joined together through the relational quality of being married.</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the priest role</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the role of a boundary to demarcate two neighboring administrative territories</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the role of a building in serving as a military target</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the role of a stone in marking a property boundary</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the role of subject in a clinical trial</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000112 xml:lang="en">the student role</obo:IAO_0000112>
<obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">BFO 2 Reference: One major family of examples of non-rigid universals involves roles, and ontologies developed for corresponding administrative purposes may consist entirely of representatives of entities of this sort. Thus ‘professor’, defined as follows,b instance_of professor at t =Def. there is some c, c instance_of professor role & c inheres_in b at t.denotes a non-rigid universal and so also do ‘nurse’, ‘student’, ‘colonel’, ‘taxpayer’, and so forth. (These terms are all, in the jargon of philosophy, phase sortals.) By using role terms in definitions, we can create a BFO conformant treatment of such entities drawing on the fact that, while an instance of professor may be simultaneously an instance of trade union member, no instance of the type professor role is also (at any time) an instance of the type trade union member role (any more than any instance of the type color is at any time an instance of the type length).If an ontology of employment positions should be defined in terms of roles following the above pattern, this enables the ontology to do justice to the fact that individuals instantiate the corresponding universals – professor, sergeant, nurse – only during certain phases in their lives.</obo:IAO_0000116>