FAMILY OF CONCEPTS - Structural Partition of Class of Individual
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Class of IndividualA Class of Individual is an Ordered Semantic Class of Ontological Blocks that exist in space and time. It is the powertype of Individual. Class of Individuals are represented as dark orange boxes (see the Meta-Model Legend) . Examples: - Red; - 12 kg; - Top Secret (TS) confidentiality. - Birth, - Death, |
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DISJOINT SUBTYPES of 'Class of Individual'
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Class of Bounded Individual |
A Class of Bounded Individual is a Class of Individual which denotes Bounded Individuals that have a proper life cycle, bounded by Temporal Bounding Types. Class of Bounded Individual is the powertype of Bounded Individual. It means that all sub-types of Bounded Individual are instances of Class of Bounded Individual. Examples: - Car, , Application, - A Process Type (Action Process) such as the registration process used at the Oackland digital hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Counterexamples: - Project is not a Class of Bounded Individual because its instances have a spatio-temporal extent. Project is a subtype of Bounded Individual. - Capability is not a Class of Bounded Individual. It is a Property. |
Property |
A Property is an abstract Class of Individual, which purpose is to qualify Bounded Individuals and their classes (Class of Bounded Individual). Because instances of Property are Individual Propertys, they do not have proper instances: there are no instances of "red", but there are red Bounded Individuals. Example: - 10 degree celcius; - Ability to cook (a capability); - Red; - 12 kg; - Top Secret (TS) confidentiality. - 7/7 availability |
Temporal Bounding Type |
A Temporal Bounding Type is Class of Individual that defines the type of temporal boundaries that delimitate Class of Bounded Individuals. It is a class of Temporal Bounding. Exemples: - Birth, - Death, - Start of the plinian phase of a volcanic eruption. - Hospital opening. |