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Basic Formal Ontology (ISO/IEC 21838-2)

The upper ontology. Continuants, occurrents, universals and particulars are the categorial split every Thing in the model derives from.

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Each specification below is decomposed into the parts AML actually binds against, and names the model it grounds. Nothing here restates the specification text — BFO publishes that.

Specifications

Basic Formal Ontology

bfo

21838-2:2021 (BFO 2020) · grounds the atgm model

Continuants entities that persist through time, e.g. objects
Occurrents entities that unfold in time, e.g. processes
Universals and particulars the categorial split every Thing derives from
Relations the top-level relations connecting continuants and occurrents

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