OEO Ontology

Overview / Open Energy Ontology / Class - generically dependent continuant
Label: generically dependent continuant
Definition:
b is a generically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant that g-depends_on one or more other entities. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [074-001])

Sub classes:
unit
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Definition:
A unit of measurement is a standardised quantity of a quantifiable entity

information content entity
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Definition:
A generically dependent continuant that is about some thing.



model component
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Definition:
A model component is a generically dependent continuant that is part of a model.

sector
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Definition:
A sector is generically dependent continuant that is a subdivision of a system.

sector division
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Definition:
A sector division is a specific way to subdivide a system.

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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