Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology II: Occurrents
Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology II: Occurrents
We here describe the occurrent side of BFO, including the BFO categories of process, process boundary, spatiotemporal region, and temporal region. As objects are located in spatial regions, so processes are located in spatiotemporal regions. Processes are related to objects through the relation of participation, as when one object participates with another object in the process of colliding. BFO is an ontology which rests on the open world assumption. Thus it does not make any claim to completeness. This chapter concludes with some considerations on the implications of this assumption for BFO’s treatment of the continuant and occurrent categories and for BFO’s perspectivalism.
Keywords: Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), continuant, occurrent, process, process boundary, spatiotemporal region, temporal region, exhaustiveness of BFO, perspectivalism, open world assumption
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