individual

Individual

A spatio_temporal_extent that is not a proper temporal_part_of any other individual of the same kind.

Note: In standard mereology a spatio-temporal extent is a part of itself. Parts of an individual excluding itself are called proper parts.

Attributes

• member_of: A member_of_ relationship type where an individual may be a member_of one or more class_of_individual.
• member_of_kind: A member_of relationship type where an individual may be a member_of one or more kind_of_individual.

Subtypes

• activity
• association
• intentionally_constructed_object
• physical_object
• possible_world

EXPRESS Specification

Schema

ENTITY individual
  SUBTYPE OF(state);
    SELF\state.member_of : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF class_of_individual;
    member_of_kind       : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF kind_of_individual;
END_ENTITY;

Inheritance Graph

ENTITY individual;
  ENTITY thing;
    member__of             : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF class;
  ENTITY spatio_temporal_extent;
    part__of               : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF spatio_temporal_extent;
    beginning              : OPTIONAL event;
    ending                 : OPTIONAL event;
    part_of_possible_world : SET [1:?] OF possible_world;
    temporal__part_of      : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF spatio_temporal_extent;
    aggregated_into        : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF spatio_temporal_extent;
  INVERSE
    consists__of           : SET OF spatio_temporal_extent FOR part__of;
  ENTITY state;
    temporal_part_of       : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF individual;
  ENTITY individual;
    member_of              : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF class_of_individual;
    member_of_kind         : OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF kind_of_individual;
END_ENTITY;