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Advanced Ontology Topics Events Roles Artifacts |
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- Take identity seriously
- Different identity criteria imply disjoint classes
- Isolate a basic taxonomic structure
- Every entity must instantiate a rigid property with identity
- Physical objects can change parts and remain the same, but amounts of matter cannot
- Only sortals like “person” (as opposite to “red”) are good candidates for being taxons (classes in subclass relation)
- Sortals: objects which carry identity
- Categories: objects which generalize sortals
- Make an explicit distinction between types and roles (and other property kinds)
- Events of all kinds are associated with a "preparation", or activity that brings the event about, and a "consequent", or ensuring state, in a tripartite data structure (from Moens, 1987): preparation :: event :: consequent