Class: 'object aggregate'
Annotations (26)
- 'BFO OWL specification label' "object-aggregate"
- 'BFO CLIF specification label' "ObjectAggregate"
- 'example of usage' "a collection of cells in a blood biobank." @en
- 'example of usage' "a swarm of bees is an aggregate of members who are linked together through natural bonds" @en
- 'example of usage' "a symphony orchestra" @en
- 'example of usage' "an organization is an aggregate whose member parts have roles of specific types (for example in a jazz band, a chess club, a football team)" @en
- 'example of usage' "defined by fiat: the aggregate of members of an organization" @en
- 'example of usage' "defined through physical attachment: the aggregate of atoms in a lump of granite" @en
- 'example of usage' "defined through physical containment: the aggregate of molecules of carbon dioxide in a sealed container" @en
- 'example of usage' "defined via attributive delimitations such as: the patients in this hospital" @en
- 'example of usage' "the aggregate of bearings in a constant velocity axle joint" @en
- 'example of usage' "the aggregate of blood cells in your body" @en
- 'example of usage' "the nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere" @en
- 'example of usage' "the restaurants in Palo Alto" @en
- 'example of usage' "your collection of Meissen ceramic plates." @en
- 'editor note' "An entity a is an object aggregate if and only if there is a mutually exhaustive and pairwise disjoint partition of a into objects "
- 'editor note' "BFO 2 Reference: object aggregates may gain and lose parts while remaining numerically identical (one and the same individual) over time. This holds both for aggregates whose membership is determined naturally (the aggregate of cells in your body) and aggregates determined by fiat (a baseball team, a congressional committee)." @en
- 'definition source' "ISBN:978-3-938793-98-5pp124-158#Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, 'A Theory of Granular Partitions', in K. Munn and B. Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos, 2008, 125-158."
- elucidation "b is an object aggregate means: b is a material entity consisting exactly of a plurality of objects as member_parts at all times at which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [025-004])" @en
- 'has associated axiom(fol)' "(forall (x) (if (ObjectAggregate x) (and (MaterialEntity x) (forall (t) (if (existsAt x t) (exists (y z) (and (Object y) (Object z) (memberPartOfAt y x t) (memberPartOfAt z x t) (not (= y z)))))) (not (exists (w t_1) (and (memberPartOfAt w x t_1) (not (Object w)))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [025-004] "
- 'has axiom label' http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000011
- 'has axiom label' http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000300
- 'has axiom label' http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000301
- 'has axiom label' http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/025-004
- rdfs:isDefinedBy http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl
- rdfs:label "object aggregate" @en