Emotion Ontology
type: Ontology
version IRI: MFOEM.owl
comment: The Emotion Ontology is an ontology for affective phenomena such as emotions and moods. It was originally developed collaboratively between the Swiss Centre of Affective Sciences and the University at Buffalo. It builds on the Ontology of Mental Functioning (MF) and the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). The latest version of the ontology can always be found at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM.owl.
contributor: Alison Wright
contributor: Barry Smith
contributor: Janna Hastings
contributor: Kevin Mulligan
contributor: Maya Braun
contributor: Paulina Schenk
contributor: Robert West
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
comment: Sources for definitions: OCEAS => Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, ed. David Sander and Klaus Scherer, Oxford University Press, 2009.
comment: Sources for terms and synonyms / translations : -- GRID project vocabulary resources (Cristina Soriano)
comment: The ontology is now released as a single merged file with all modules included, built using the ROBOT library's 'merge' function.
label: The Emotion Ontology (MFOEM)
version info: 2025-01-06

BFO OWL specification label
type: AnnotationProperty
definition: Relates an entity in the ontology to the name of the variable that is used to represent it in the code that generates the BFO OWL file from the lispy specification.
curator note: Really of interest to developers only
sub property of: label

BFO CLIF specification label
type: AnnotationProperty
definition: Relates an entity in the ontology to the term that is used to represent it in the the CLIF specification of BFO2
definition source: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
curator note: Really of interest to developers only
sub property of: label

editor preferred term
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: editor preferred term
has curation status: ready for release
definition: The concise, meaningful, and human-friendly name for a class or property preferred by the ontology developers. (US-English)
term editor: PERSON:Daniel Schober
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>

example of usage
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: example
editor preferred term: example of usage
has curation status: ready for release
definition: A phrase describing how a term should be used and/or a citation to a work which uses it. May also include other kinds of examples that facilitate immediate understanding, such as widely know prototypes or instances of a class, or cases where a relation is said to hold.
term editor: PERSON:Daniel Schober
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>

in branch
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: in branch
definition: An annotation property indicating which module the terms belong to. This is currently experimental and not implemented yet.
term editor: GROUP:OBI
definition source: OBI_0000277

has curation status
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has curation status
term editor: PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
term editor: PERSON:Bill Bug
term editor: PERSON:Melanie Courtot
definition source: OBI_0000281

definition
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: definition
has curation status: ready for release
definition: The official definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property. Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions.
editor note: 2012-04-05: Barry Smith The official OBI definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property: 'Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions' is terrible. Can you fix to something like: A statement of necessary and sufficient conditions explaining the meaning of an expression referring to a class or property. Alan Ruttenberg Your proposed definition is a reasonable candidate, except that it is very common that necessary and sufficient conditions are not given. Mostly they are necessary, occasionally they are necessary and sufficient or just sufficient. Often they use terms that are not themselves defined and so they effectively can't be evaluated by those criteria. On the specifics of the proposed definition: We don't have definitions of 'meaning' or 'expression' or 'property'. For 'reference' in the intended sense I think we use the term 'denotation'. For 'expression', I think we you mean symbol, or identifier. For 'meaning' it differs for class and property. For class we want documentation that let's the intended reader determine whether an entity is instance of the class, or not. For property we want documentation that let's the intended reader determine, given a pair of potential relata, whether the assertion that the relation holds is true. The 'intended reader' part suggests that we also specify who, we expect, would be able to understand the definition, and also generalizes over human and computer reader to include textual and logical definition. Personally, I am more comfortable weakening definition to documentation, with instructions as to what is desirable. We also have the outstanding issue of how to aim different definitions to different audiences. A clinical audience reading chebi wants a different sort of definition documentation/definition from a chemistry trained audience, and similarly there is a need for a definition that is adequate for an ontologist to work with.
term editor: PERSON:Daniel Schober
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>

editor note
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: editor note
has curation status: ready for release
definition: An administrative note intended for its editor. It may not be included in the publication version of the ontology, so it should contain nothing necessary for end users to understand the ontology.
term editor: PERSON:Daniel Schober
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obfoundry.org/obo/obi>
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obofoundry.org/obo/obi>

term editor
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: term editor
has curation status: ready for release
definition: Name of editor entering the term in the file. The term editor is a point of contact for information regarding the term. The term editor may be, but is not always, the author of the definition, which may have been worked upon by several people
editor note: 20110707, MC: label update to term editor and definition modified accordingly. See https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/115.
term editor: PERSON:Daniel Schober
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>

alternative label
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: alternative label
editor preferred term: alternative term
has curation status: pending final vetting
definition: A label for a class or property that can be used to refer to the class or property instead of the preferred rdfs:label. Alternative labels should be used to indicate community- or context-specific labels, abbreviations, shorthand forms and the like.
definition: An alternative name for a class or property which means the same thing as the preferred name (semantically equivalent)
term editor: OBO Operations committee
term editor: PERSON:Daniel Schober
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
comment: Consider re-defing to: An alternative name for a class or property which can mean the same thing as the preferred name (semantically equivalent, narrow, broad or related).
label: alternative term

definition source
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: definition source
has curation status: ready for release
definition: Formal citation, e.g. identifier in external database to indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. Free text indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. EXAMPLE: Author Name, URI, MeSH Term C04, PUBMED ID, Wiki uri on 31.01.2007
definition: formal citation, e.g. identifier in external database to indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. Free text indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. EXAMPLE: Author Name, URI, MeSH Term C04, PUBMED ID, Wiki uri on 31.01.2007
term editor: PERSON:Daniel Schober
definition source: Discussion on obo-discuss mailing-list, see http://bit.ly/hgm99w
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>

has obsolescence reason
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has obsolescence reason
definition: Relates an annotation property to an obsolescence reason. The values of obsolescence reasons come from a list of predefined terms, instances of the class obsolescence reason specification.
term editor: PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
term editor: PERSON:Melanie Courtot

curator note
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: curator note
has curation status: ready for release
definition: An administrative note of use for a curator but of no use for a user
term editor: PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg

term tracker item
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: term tracker item
example of usage: the URI for an OBI Terms ticket at sourceforge, such as https://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/772/
has curation status: pending final vetting
definition: An IRI or similar locator for a request or discussion of an ontology term.
term editor: Person: Jie Zheng, Chris Stoeckert, Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person: Jie Zheng, Chris Stoeckert, Alan Ruttenberg
comment: The 'tracker item' can associate a tracker with a specific ontology term.

ontology term requester
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: ontology term requester
has curation status: pending final vetting
definition: The name of the person, project, or organization that motivated inclusion of an ontology term by requesting its addition.
term editor: Person: Jie Zheng, Chris Stoeckert, Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person: Jie Zheng, Chris Stoeckert, Alan Ruttenberg
comment: The 'term requester' can credit the person, organization or project who request the ontology term.

is denotator type
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: is denotator type
definition: Relates an class defined in an ontology, to the type of it's denotator
definition: relates an class defined in an ontology, to the type of it's denotator
editor note: In OWL 2 add AnnotationPropertyRange('is denotator type' 'denotator type')
term editor: Alan Ruttenberg

imported from
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: imported from
has curation status: pending final vetting
definition: For external terms/classes, the ontology from which the term was imported
term editor: PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
term editor: PERSON:Melanie Courtot
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>

expand expression to
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: expand expression to
example of usage: ObjectProperty: RO_0002104 Label: has plasma membrane part Annotations: IAO_0000424 "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051 some (http://purl.org/obo/owl/GO#GO_0005886 and http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051 some ?Y)"
definition: A macro expansion tag applied to an object property (or possibly a data property) which can be used by a macro-expansion engine to generate more complex expressions from simpler ones
term editor: Chris Mungall

expand assertion to
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: expand assertion to
example of usage: ObjectProperty: RO??? Label: spatially disjoint from Annotations: expand_assertion_to "DisjointClasses: (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051 some ?X) (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051 some ?Y)"
definition: A macro expansion tag applied to an annotation property which can be expanded into a more detailed axiom.
term editor: Chris Mungall

first order logic expression
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: first order logic expression
term editor: PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg

antisymmetric property
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: antisymmetric property
example of usage: part_of antisymmetric property xsd:true
definition: Use boolean value xsd:true to indicate that the property is an antisymmetric property
definition: use boolean value xsd:true to indicate that the property is an antisymmetric property
term editor: Alan Ruttenberg
sub property of: logical characteristic of object property

OBO foundry unique label
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: OBO foundry unique label
has curation status: pending final vetting
definition: An alternative name for a class or property which is unique across the OBO Foundry.
editor note: The intended usage of that property is as follow: OBO foundry unique labels are automatically generated based on regular expressions provided by each ontology, so that SO could specify unique label = 'sequence ' + [label], etc. , MA could specify 'mouse + [label]' etc. Upon importing terms, ontology developers can choose to use the 'OBO foundry unique label' for an imported term or not. The same applies to tools .
term editor: PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
term editor: PERSON:Bjoern Peters
term editor: PERSON:Chris Mungall
term editor: PERSON:Melanie Courtot
definition source: GROUP:OBO Foundry <http://obofoundry.org/>

has ID digit count
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has ID digit count
example of usage: Ontology: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro/idrange/> Annotations: 'has ID prefix': "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_" 'has ID digit count' : 7, rdfs:label "RO id policy" 'has ID policy for': "RO"
definition: Relates an ontology used to record id policy to the number of digits in the URI. The URI is: the 'has ID prefix" annotation property value concatenated with an integer in the id range (left padded with "0"s to make this many digits)
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg

has ID range allocated to
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has ID range allocated
example of usage: Datatype: idrange:1 Annotations: 'has ID range allocated to': "Chris Mungall" EquivalentTo: xsd:integer[> 2151 , <= 2300]
definition: Relates a datatype that encodes a range of integers to the name of the person or organization who can use those ids constructed in that range to define new terms
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg

has ID policy for
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has ID policy for
example of usage: Ontology: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro/idrange/> Annotations: 'has ID prefix': "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_" 'has ID digit count' : 7, rdfs:label "RO id policy" 'has ID policy for': "RO"
definition: Relating an ontology used to record id policy to the ontology namespace whose policy it manages
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg

has ID prefix
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has ID prefix
example of usage: Ontology: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro/idrange/> Annotations: 'has ID prefix': "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_" 'has ID digit count' : 7, rdfs:label "RO id policy" 'has ID policy for': "RO"
definition: Relates an ontology used to record id policy to a prefix concatenated with an integer in the id range (left padded with "0"s to make this many digits) to construct an ID for a term being created.
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg

elucidation
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: elucidation
term editor: person:Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person:Barry Smith
elucidation: Primitive terms in a highest-level ontology such as BFO are terms which are so basic to our understanding of reality that there is no way of defining them in a non-circular fashion. For these, therefore, we can provide only elucidations, supplemented by examples and by axioms

has associated axiom(nl)
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has associated axiom(nl)
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
elucidation: An axiom associated with a term expressed using natural language

has associated axiom(fol)
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has associated axiom(fol)
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
elucidation: An axiom expressed in first order logic using CLIF syntax

is allocated id range
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: is allocated id range
definition: Add as annotation triples in the granting ontology
definition: Relates an ontology IRI to an (inclusive) range of IRIs in an OBO name space. The range is give as, e.g. "IAO_0020000-IAO_0020999"
term editor: PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
comment: Add as annotation triples in the granting ontology

has ontology root term
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has ontology root term
definition: Ontology annotation property. Relates an ontology to a term that is a designated root term of the ontology. Display tools like OLS can use terms annotated with this property as the starting point for rendering the ontology class hierarchy. There can be more than one root.
term editor: Nicolas Matentzoglu

may be identical to
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: may be identical to
definition: A annotation relationship between two terms in an ontology that may refer to the same (natural) type but where more evidence is required before terms are merged.
term editor: David Osumi-Sutherland
term tracker item: #40
ontology term requester: VFB
creation date: 2018-09-21T16:43:39Z
comment: Edges asserting this should be annotated with to record evidence supporting the assertion and its provenance.

scheduled for obsoletion on or after
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: scheduled for obsoletion on or after
definition: Used when the class or object is scheduled for obsoletion/deprecation on or after a particular date.
term editor: Chris Mungall, Jie Zheng
term tracker item: https://github.com/geneontology/go-ontology/issues/15532
term tracker item: https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/ontology-metadata/issues/32
ontology term requester: GO ontology
range: dateTime

has axiom label
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: has axiom id
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
elucidation: A URI that is intended to be unique label for an axiom used for tracking change to the ontology. For an axiom expressed in different languages, each expression is given the same URI

term replaced by
type: AnnotationProperty
editor preferred term: term replaced by
has curation status: pending final vetting
definition: Add as annotation triples in the granting ontology
definition: Use on obsolete terms, relating the term to another term that can be used as a substitute
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
comment: Add as annotation triples in the granting ontology

synonym
type: AnnotationProperty

tag display synonym
type: AnnotationProperty

logical characteristic of object property
type: AnnotationProperty
definition: This is an annotation used on an object property to indicate a logical characterstic beyond what is possible in OWL.
definition source: OBO Operations call
created by: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-3432

defined by construct
type: AnnotationProperty
example of usage: 'part disjoint with' 'defined by construct' """ PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> PREFIX : <http://example.org/ CONSTRUCT { [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty :part_of ; owl:someValuesFrom ?a ; owl:disjointWith [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty :part_of ; owl:someValuesFrom ?b ] ] } WHERE { ?a :part_disjoint_with ?b . }
definition: Links an annotation property to a SPARQL CONSTRUCT query which is meant to provide semantics for a shortcut relation.
term tracker item: https://github.com/ontodev/robot/issues/963
contributor: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-1779
contributor: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8688-6599

has broad synonym
type: AnnotationProperty
definition: An alternative label for a class or property which has a more general meaning than the preferred name/primary label.
term editor: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-3432
term tracker item: https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/ontology-metadata/issues/18
sub property of: alternative label

has exact synonym
type: AnnotationProperty
definition: An alternative label for a class or property which has the exact same meaning than the preferred name/primary label.
term editor: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-3432
term tracker item: https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/ontology-metadata/issues/20
sub property of: alternative label

has narrow synonym
type: AnnotationProperty
definition: An alternative label for a class or property which has a more specific meaning than the preferred name/primary label.
term editor: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-3432
term tracker item: https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/ontology-metadata/issues/19
sub property of: alternative label

has related synonym
type: AnnotationProperty
definition: An alternative label for a class or property that has been used synonymously with the primary term name, but the usage is not strictly correct.
term editor: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-3432
term tracker item: https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/ontology-metadata/issues/21
sub property of: alternative label

inheres in at all times
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000052
TV sg: BFO_0000052s
TV vbg: BFO_0000052ed

realized in
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000054
TV sg: BFO_0000054s
TV vbg: BFO_0000054ed

realizes
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000055
TV sg: BFO_0000055s
TV vbg: BFO_0000055ed

participates in at some time
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000056
TV sg: BFO_0000056s
TV vbg: BFO_0000056ed

has participant at some time
type: ObjectProperty
property chain axiom: realizes
property chain axiom: inheres in at all times
TV pl: BFO_0000057
TV sg: BFO_0000057s
TV vbg: BFO_0000057ed

disposition of at all times
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000107
TV sg: BFO_0000107s
TV vbg: BFO_0000107ed

has continuant part at all times
type: ObjectProperty
type: TransitiveProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000110
TV sg: BFO_0000110s
TV vbg: BFO_0000110ed

has proper continuant part at all times
type: ObjectProperty
sub property of: has continuant part at all times
type: TransitiveProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000111
TV sg: BFO_0000111s
TV vbg: BFO_0000111ed

has disposition at some time
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000112
TV sg: BFO_0000112s
TV vbg: BFO_0000112ed

has occurrent part
type: ObjectProperty
inverse of: part of occurrent
type: TransitiveProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000117
TV sg: BFO_0000117s
TV vbg: BFO_0000117ed

has proper occurrent part
type: ObjectProperty
sub property of: has occurrent part
type: TransitiveProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000118
TV sg: BFO_0000118s
TV vbg: BFO_0000118ed

part of occurrent
type: ObjectProperty
type: TransitiveProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000132
TV sg: BFO_0000132s
TV vbg: BFO_0000132ed

material basis of at all times
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000163
TV sg: BFO_0000163s
TV vbg: BFO_0000163ed

has participant at all times
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000167
TV sg: BFO_0000167s
TV vbg: BFO_0000167ed

part of continuant at some time
type: ObjectProperty
TV pl: BFO_0000176
TV sg: BFO_0000176s
TV vbg: BFO_0000176ed

isOutputOf
type: ObjectProperty

hasOutput
type: ObjectProperty

entity
type: Class
subclass of: Thing
BFO OWL specification label: entity
BFO CLIF specification label: Entity
example of usage: Julius Caesar
example of usage: Verdi’s Requiem
example of usage: the Second World War
example of usage: your body mass index
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: In all areas of empirical inquiry we encounter general terms of two sorts. First are general terms which refer to universals or types:animaltuberculosissurgical procedurediseaseSecond, are general terms used to refer to groups of entities which instantiate a given universal but do not correspond to the extension of any subuniversal of that universal because there is nothing intrinsic to the entities in question by virtue of which they – and only they – are counted as belonging to the given group. Examples are: animal purchased by the Emperortuberculosis diagnosed on a Wednesdaysurgical procedure performed on a patient from Stockholmperson identified as candidate for clinical trial #2056-555person who is signatory of Form 656-PPVpainting by Leonardo da VinciSuch terms, which represent what are called ‘specializations’ in [81
editor note: Entity doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example Werner Ceusters 'portions of reality' include 4 sorts, entities (as BFO construes them), universals, configurations, and relations. It is an open question as to whether entities as construed in BFO will at some point also include these other portions of reality. See, for example, 'How to track absolutely everything' at http://www.referent-tracking.com/_RTU/papers/CeustersICbookRevised.pdf
elucidation: An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [001-001])

Axiom
annotated source: entity
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: Entity doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example Werner Ceusters 'portions of reality' include 4 sorts, entities (as BFO construes them), universals, configurations, and relations. It is an open question as to whether entities as construed in BFO will at some point also include these other portions of reality. See, for example, 'How to track absolutely everything' at http://www.referent-tracking.com/_RTU/papers/CeustersICbookRevised.pdf
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000004
comment: per discussion with Barry Smith

Axiom
annotated source: entity
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [001-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/001-001

continuant
type: Class
subclass of: entity
disjoint with: occurrent
BFO OWL specification label: continuant
BFO CLIF specification label: Continuant
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: Continuant entities are entities which can be sliced to yield parts only along the spatial dimension, yielding for example the parts of your table which we call its legs, its top, its nails. ‘My desk stretches from the window to the door. It has spatial parts, and can be sliced (in space) in two. With respect to time, however, a thing is a continuant.’ [60, p. 240
editor note: Continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example, in an expansion involving bringing in some of Ceuster's other portions of reality, questions are raised as to whether universals are continuants
elucidation: A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [008-002])
has associated axiom(nl): if b is a continuant and if, for some t, c has_continuant_part b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [126-001])
has associated axiom(nl): if b is a continuant and if, for some t, cis continuant_part of b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [009-002])
has associated axiom(nl): if b is a material entity, then there is some temporal interval (referred to below as a one-dimensional temporal region) during which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [011-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (continuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [009-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (hasContinuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [126-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (Continuant x) (Entity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [008-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (Material Entity x) (exists (t) (and (TemporalRegion t) (existsAt x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [011-002]

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (continuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [009-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/009-002

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (hasContinuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [126-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/126-001

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (Continuant x) (Entity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [008-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/008-002

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (Material Entity x) (exists (t) (and (TemporalRegion t) (existsAt x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [011-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/011-002

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: Continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example, in an expansion involving bringing in some of Ceuster's other portions of reality, questions are raised as to whether universals are continuants
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000007

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [008-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/008-002

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: if b is a continuant and if, for some t, c has_continuant_part b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [126-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/126-001

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: if b is a continuant and if, for some t, cis continuant_part of b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [009-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/009-002

Axiom
annotated source: continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: if b is a material entity, then there is some temporal interval (referred to below as a one-dimensional temporal region) during which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [011-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/011-002

occurrent
type: Class
subclass of: entity
BFO OWL specification label: occurrent
BFO CLIF specification label: Occurrent
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: every occurrent that is not a temporal or spatiotemporal region is s-dependent on some independent continuant that is not a spatial region
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: s-dependence obtains between every process and its participants in the sense that, as a matter of necessity, this process could not have existed unless these or those participants existed also. A process may have a succession of participants at different phases of its unfolding. Thus there may be different players on the field at different times during the course of a football game; but the process which is the entire game s-depends_on all of these players nonetheless. Some temporal parts of this process will s-depend_on on only some of the players.
editor note: Occurrent doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the sum of a process and the process boundary of another process.
editor note: Simons uses different terminology for relations of occurrents to regions: Denote the spatio-temporal location of a given occurrent e by 'spn[e]' and call this region its span. We may say an occurrent is at its span, in any larger region, and covers any smaller region. Now suppose we have fixed a frame of reference so that we can speak not merely of spatio-temporal but also of spatial regions (places) and temporal regions (times). The spread of an occurrent, (relative to a frame of reference) is the space it exactly occupies, and its spell is likewise the time it exactly occupies. We write 'spr[e]' and `spl[e]' respectively for the spread and spell of e, omitting mention of the frame.
elucidation: An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the instantaneous boundary of such an entity (for example a beginning or an ending) or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region which such an entity occupies_temporal_region or occupies_spatiotemporal_region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [077-002])
has associated axiom(nl): Every occurrent occupies_spatiotemporal_region some spatiotemporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [108-001])
has associated axiom(nl): b is an occurrent entity iff b is an entity that has temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [079-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (Occurrent x) (exists (r) (and (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x r))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [108-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (iff (Occurrent x) (and (Entity x) (exists (y) (temporalPartOf y x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [079-001]

Axiom
annotated source: occurrent
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: Occurrent doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the sum of a process and the process boundary of another process.
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000006
comment: per discussion with Barry Smith

Axiom
annotated source: occurrent
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: Simons uses different terminology for relations of occurrents to regions: Denote the spatio-temporal location of a given occurrent e by 'spn[e]' and call this region its span. We may say an occurrent is at its span, in any larger region, and covers any smaller region. Now suppose we have fixed a frame of reference so that we can speak not merely of spatio-temporal but also of spatial regions (places) and temporal regions (times). The spread of an occurrent, (relative to a frame of reference) is the space it exactly occupies, and its spell is likewise the time it exactly occupies. We write 'spr[e]' and `spl[e]' respectively for the spread and spell of e, omitting mention of the frame.
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000012

Axiom
annotated source: occurrent
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the instantaneous boundary of such an entity (for example a beginning or an ending) or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region which such an entity occupies_temporal_region or occupies_spatiotemporal_region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [077-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/077-002

Axiom
annotated source: occurrent
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: Every occurrent occupies_spatiotemporal_region some spatiotemporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [108-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/108-001

Axiom
annotated source: occurrent
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: b is an occurrent entity iff b is an entity that has temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [079-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/079-001

Axiom
annotated source: occurrent
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (Occurrent x) (exists (r) (and (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x r))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [108-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/108-001

Axiom
annotated source: occurrent
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (iff (Occurrent x) (and (Entity x) (exists (y) (temporalPartOf y x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [079-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/079-001

independent continuant
type: Class
subclass of: continuant
disjoint with: specifically dependent continuant
disjoint with: generically dependent continuant
BFO OWL specification label: ic
BFO CLIF specification label: IndependentContinuant
example of usage: a chair
example of usage: a heart
example of usage: a leg
example of usage: a molecule
example of usage: a spatial region
example of usage: an atom
example of usage: an orchestra.
example of usage: an organism
example of usage: the bottom right portion of a human torso
example of usage: the interior of your mouth
definition: b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])
has associated axiom(nl): For any independent continuant b and any time t there is some spatial region r such that b is located_in r at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [134-001])
has associated axiom(nl): For every independent continuant b and time t during the region of time spanned by its life, there are entities which s-depends_on b during t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [018-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x t) (if (IndependentContinuant x) (exists (r) (and (SpatialRegion r) (locatedInAt x r t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [134-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x t) (if (and (IndependentContinuant x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (Entity y) (specificallyDependsOnAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [018-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (IndependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (not (exists (b t) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [017-002]

Axiom
annotated source: independent continuant
annotated property: definition
annotated target: b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/017-002

Axiom
annotated source: independent continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: For any independent continuant b and any time t there is some spatial region r such that b is located_in r at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [134-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/134-001

Axiom
annotated source: independent continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: For every independent continuant b and time t during the region of time spanned by its life, there are entities which s-depends_on b during t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [018-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/018-002

Axiom
annotated source: independent continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x t) (if (IndependentContinuant x) (exists (r) (and (SpatialRegion r) (locatedInAt x r t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [134-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/134-001

Axiom
annotated source: independent continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x t) (if (and (IndependentContinuant x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (Entity y) (specificallyDependsOnAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [018-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/018-002

Axiom
annotated source: independent continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (IndependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (not (exists (b t) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [017-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/017-002

spatial region
type: Class
subclass of: immaterial entity
disjoint with: site
disjoint with: continuant fiat boundary
BFO OWL specification label: s-region
BFO CLIF specification label: SpatialRegion
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: Spatial regions do not participate in processes.
editor note: Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional.
elucidation: A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])
has associated axiom(nl): All continuant parts of spatial regions are spatial regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [036-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x y t) (if (and (SpatialRegion x) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)) (SpatialRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [036-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (SpatialRegion x) (Continuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [035-001]

Axiom
annotated source: spatial region
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional.
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000002
comment: per discussion with Barry Smith

Axiom
annotated source: spatial region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/035-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatial region
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: All continuant parts of spatial regions are spatial regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [036-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/036-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatial region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x y t) (if (and (SpatialRegion x) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)) (SpatialRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [036-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/036-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatial region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (SpatialRegion x) (Continuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [035-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/035-001

temporal region
type: Class
subclass of: occurrent
disjoint with: spatiotemporal region
disjoint with: process
disjoint with: process boundary
BFO OWL specification label: t-region
BFO CLIF specification label: TemporalRegion
editor note: Temporal region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of a temporal instant and a temporal interval that doesn't overlap the instant. In this case the resultant temporal region is neither 0-dimensional nor 1-dimensional
elucidation: A temporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of time as defined relative to some reference frame. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [100-001])
has associated axiom(nl): All parts of temporal regions are temporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [101-001])
has associated axiom(nl): Every temporal region t is such that t occupies_temporal_region t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [119-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (r) (if (TemporalRegion r) (occupiesTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [119-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x y) (if (and (TemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (TemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [101-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (TemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [100-001]

Axiom
annotated source: temporal region
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: Temporal region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of a temporal instant and a temporal interval that doesn't overlap the instant. In this case the resultant temporal region is neither 0-dimensional nor 1-dimensional
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000003
comment: per discussion with Barry Smith

Axiom
annotated source: temporal region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A temporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of time as defined relative to some reference frame. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [100-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/100-001

Axiom
annotated source: temporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: All parts of temporal regions are temporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [101-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/101-001

Axiom
annotated source: temporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: Every temporal region t is such that t occupies_temporal_region t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [119-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/119-002

Axiom
annotated source: temporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (r) (if (TemporalRegion r) (occupiesTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [119-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/119-002

Axiom
annotated source: temporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x y) (if (and (TemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (TemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [101-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/101-001

Axiom
annotated source: temporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (TemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [100-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/100-001

two-dimensional spatial region
type: Class
subclass of: spatial region
disjoint with: three-dimensional spatial region
BFO OWL specification label: 2d-s-region
BFO CLIF specification label: TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion
example of usage: an infinitely thin plane in space.
example of usage: the surface of a sphere-shaped part of space
elucidation: A two-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of two dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [039-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [039-001]

Axiom
annotated source: two-dimensional spatial region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A two-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of two dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [039-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/039-001

Axiom
annotated source: two-dimensional spatial region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [039-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/039-001

spatiotemporal region
type: Class
subclass of: occurrent
BFO OWL specification label: st-region
BFO CLIF specification label: SpatiotemporalRegion
example of usage: the spatiotemporal region occupied by a human life
example of usage: the spatiotemporal region occupied by a process of cellular meiosis.
example of usage: the spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumor
elucidation: A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of spacetime. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [095-001])
has associated axiom(nl): All parts of spatiotemporal regions are spatiotemporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [096-001])
has associated axiom(nl): Each spatiotemporal region at any time t projects_onto some spatial region at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [099-001])
has associated axiom(nl): Each spatiotemporal region projects_onto some temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [098-001])
has associated axiom(nl): Every spatiotemporal region occupies_spatiotemporal_region itself.
has associated axiom(nl): Every spatiotemporal region s is such that s occupies_spatiotemporal_region s. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [107-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (r) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [107-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x t) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (SpatialRegion y) (spatiallyProjectsOntoAt x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [099-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x y) (if (and (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (SpatioTemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [096-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [095-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (TemporalRegion y) (temporallyProjectsOnto x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [098-001]

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of spacetime. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [095-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/095-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: All parts of spatiotemporal regions are spatiotemporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [096-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/096-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: Each spatiotemporal region at any time t projects_onto some spatial region at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [099-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/099-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: Each spatiotemporal region projects_onto some temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [098-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/098-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: Every spatiotemporal region s is such that s occupies_spatiotemporal_region s. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [107-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/107-002

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (r) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [107-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/107-002

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x t) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (SpatialRegion y) (spatiallyProjectsOntoAt x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [099-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/099-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x y) (if (and (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (SpatioTemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [096-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/096-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [095-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/095-001

Axiom
annotated source: spatiotemporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (TemporalRegion y) (temporallyProjectsOnto x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [098-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/098-001

process
type: Class
subclass of: occurrent
BFO OWL specification label: process
BFO CLIF specification label: Process
example of usage: a process of cell-division, \ a beating of the heart
example of usage: a process of meiosis
example of usage: a process of sleeping
example of usage: the course of a disease
example of usage: the flight of a bird
example of usage: the life of an organism
example of usage: your process of aging.
definition: p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: The realm of occurrents is less pervasively marked by the presence of natural units than is the case in the realm of independent continuants. Thus there is here no counterpart of ‘object’. In BFO 1.0 ‘process’ served as such a counterpart. In BFO 2.0 ‘process’ is, rather, the occurrent counterpart of ‘material entity’. Those natural – as contrasted with engineered, which here means: deliberately executed – units which do exist in the realm of occurrents are typically either parasitic on the existence of natural units on the continuant side, or they are fiat in nature. Thus we can count lives; we can count football games; we can count chemical reactions performed in experiments or in chemical manufacturing. We cannot count the processes taking place, for instance, in an episode of insect mating behavior.Even where natural units are identifiable, for example cycles in a cyclical process such as the beating of a heart or an organism’s sleep/wake cycle, the processes in question form a sequence with no discontinuities (temporal gaps) of the sort that we find for instance where billiard balls or zebrafish or planets are separated by clear spatial gaps. Lives of organisms are process units, but they too unfold in a continuous series from other, prior processes such as fertilization, and they unfold in turn in continuous series of post-life processes such as post-mortem decay. Clear examples of boundaries of processes are almost always of the fiat sort (midnight, a time of death as declared in an operating theater or on a death certificate, the initiation of a state of war)
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (Process a) (and (Occurrent a) (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)) (exists (c t) (and (MaterialEntity c) (specificallyDependsOnAt a c t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [083-003]

Axiom
annotated source: process
annotated property: definition
annotated target: p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/083-003

Axiom
annotated source: process
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (Process a) (and (Occurrent a) (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)) (exists (c t) (and (MaterialEntity c) (specificallyDependsOnAt a c t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [083-003]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/083-003

disposition
type: Class
subclass of: realizable entity
disjoint with: role
BFO OWL specification label: disposition
BFO CLIF specification label: Disposition
example of usage: an atom of element X has the disposition to decay to an atom of element Y
example of usage: certain people have a predisposition to colon cancer
example of usage: children are innately disposed to categorize objects in certain ways.
example of usage: the cell wall is disposed to filter chemicals in endocytosis and exocytosis
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: Dispositions exist along a strength continuum. Weaker forms of disposition are realized in only a fraction of triggering cases. These forms occur in a significant number of cases of a similar type.
elucidation: b is a disposition means: b is a realizable entity & b’s bearer is some material entity & b is such that if it ceases to exist, then its bearer is physically changed, & b’s realization occurs when and because this bearer is in some special physical circumstances, & this realization occurs in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [062-002])
has associated axiom(nl): If b is a realizable entity then for all t at which b exists, b s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [063-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x t) (if (and (RealizableEntity x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (specificallyDepends x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [063-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (Disposition x) (and (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (bearerOfAt x y t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [062-002]

Axiom
annotated source: disposition
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: b is a disposition means: b is a realizable entity & b’s bearer is some material entity & b is such that if it ceases to exist, then its bearer is physically changed, & b’s realization occurs when and because this bearer is in some special physical circumstances, & this realization occurs in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [062-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/062-002

Axiom
annotated source: disposition
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: If b is a realizable entity then for all t at which b exists, b s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [063-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/063-002

Axiom
annotated source: disposition
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x t) (if (and (RealizableEntity x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (specificallyDepends x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [063-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/063-002

Axiom
annotated source: disposition
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (Disposition x) (and (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (bearerOfAt x y t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [062-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/062-002

realizable entity
type: Class
subclass of: specifically dependent continuant
disjoint with: quality
BFO OWL specification label: realizable
BFO CLIF specification label: RealizableEntity
example of usage: the disposition of this piece of metal to conduct electricity.
example of usage: the disposition of your blood to coagulate
example of usage: the function of your reproductive organs
example of usage: the role of being a doctor
example of usage: the role of this boundary to delineate where Utah and Colorado meet
elucidation: To say that b is a realizable entity is to say that b is a specifically dependent continuant that inheres in some independent continuant which is not a spatial region and is of a type instances of which are realized in processes of a correlated type. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [058-002])
has associated axiom(nl): All realizable dependent continuants have independent continuants that are not spatial regions as their bearers. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [060-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x t) (if (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (bearerOfAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [060-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (RealizableEntity x) (and (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (inheresIn x y)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [058-002]

Axiom
annotated source: realizable entity
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: To say that b is a realizable entity is to say that b is a specifically dependent continuant that inheres in some independent continuant which is not a spatial region and is of a type instances of which are realized in processes of a correlated type. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [058-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/058-002

Axiom
annotated source: realizable entity
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: All realizable dependent continuants have independent continuants that are not spatial regions as their bearers. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [060-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/060-002

Axiom
annotated source: realizable entity
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x t) (if (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (bearerOfAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [060-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/060-002

Axiom
annotated source: realizable entity
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (RealizableEntity x) (and (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (inheresIn x y)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [058-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/058-002

zero-dimensional spatial region
type: Class
subclass of: spatial region
disjoint with: three-dimensional spatial region
BFO OWL specification label: 0d-s-region
BFO CLIF specification label: ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion
elucidation: A zero-dimensional spatial region is a point in space. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [037-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [037-001]

Axiom
annotated source: zero-dimensional spatial region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A zero-dimensional spatial region is a point in space. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [037-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/037-001

Axiom
annotated source: zero-dimensional spatial region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [037-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/037-001

quality
type: Class
subclass of: specifically dependent continuant
BFO OWL specification label: quality
BFO CLIF specification label: Quality
example of usage: the ambient temperature of this portion of air
example of usage: the color of a tomato
example of usage: the length of the circumference of your waist
example of usage: the mass of this piece of gold.
example of usage: the shape of your nose
example of usage: the shape of your nostril
elucidation: a quality is a specifically dependent continuant that, in contrast to roles and dispositions, does not require any further process in order to be realized. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [055-001])
has associated axiom(nl): If an entity is a quality at any time that it exists, then it is a quality at every time that it exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [105-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (Quality x) (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [055-001]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (exists (t) (and (existsAt x t) (Quality x))) (forall (t_1) (if (existsAt x t_1) (Quality x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [105-001]

Axiom
annotated source: quality
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: a quality is a specifically dependent continuant that, in contrast to roles and dispositions, does not require any further process in order to be realized. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [055-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/055-001

Axiom
annotated source: quality
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: If an entity is a quality at any time that it exists, then it is a quality at every time that it exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [105-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/105-001

Axiom
annotated source: quality
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (Quality x) (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [055-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/055-001

Axiom
annotated source: quality
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (exists (t) (and (existsAt x t) (Quality x))) (forall (t_1) (if (existsAt x t_1) (Quality x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [105-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/105-001

specifically dependent continuant
type: Class
subclass of: continuant
disjoint with: generically dependent continuant
BFO OWL specification label: sdc
BFO CLIF specification label: SpecificallyDependentContinuant
example of usage: Reciprocal specifically dependent continuants: the function of this key to open this lock and the mutually dependent disposition of this lock: to be opened by this key
example of usage: of one-sided specifically dependent continuants: the mass of this tomato
example of usage: of relational dependent continuants (multiple bearers): John’s love for Mary, the ownership relation between John and this statue, the relation of authority between John and his subordinates.
example of usage: the disposition of this fish to decay
example of usage: the function of this heart: to pump blood
example of usage: the mutual dependence of proton donors and acceptors in chemical reactions [79
example of usage: the mutual dependence of the role predator and the role prey as played by two organisms in a given interaction
example of usage: the pink color of a medium rare piece of grilled filet mignon at its center
example of usage: the role of being a doctor
example of usage: the shape of this hole.
example of usage: the smell of this portion of mozzarella
definition: b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])
editor note: Specifically dependent continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. We're not sure what else will develop here, but for example there are questions such as what are promises, obligation, etc.
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (SpecificallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (forall (t) (if (existsAt a t) (exists (b) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (not (SpatialRegion b)) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [050-003]

Axiom
annotated source: specifically dependent continuant
annotated property: definition
annotated target: b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/050-003

Axiom
annotated source: specifically dependent continuant
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: Specifically dependent continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. We're not sure what else will develop here, but for example there are questions such as what are promises, obligation, etc.
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000005
comment: per discussion with Barry Smith

Axiom
annotated source: specifically dependent continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (SpecificallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (forall (t) (if (existsAt a t) (exists (b) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (not (SpatialRegion b)) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [050-003]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/050-003

role
type: Class
subclass of: realizable entity
BFO OWL specification label: role
BFO CLIF specification label: Role
example of usage: John’s role of husband to Mary is dependent on Mary’s role of wife to John, and both are dependent on the object aggregate comprising John and Mary as member parts joined together through the relational quality of being married.
example of usage: the priest role
example of usage: the role of a boundary to demarcate two neighboring administrative territories
example of usage: the role of a building in serving as a military target
example of usage: the role of a stone in marking a property boundary
example of usage: the role of subject in a clinical trial
example of usage: the student role
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: One major family of examples of non-rigid universals involves roles, and ontologies developed for corresponding administrative purposes may consist entirely of representatives of entities of this sort. Thus ‘professor’, defined as follows,b instance_of professor at t =Def. there is some c, c instance_of professor role & c inheres_in b at t.denotes a non-rigid universal and so also do ‘nurse’, ‘student’, ‘colonel’, ‘taxpayer’, and so forth. (These terms are all, in the jargon of philosophy, phase sortals.) By using role terms in definitions, we can create a BFO conformant treatment of such entities drawing on the fact that, while an instance of professor may be simultaneously an instance of trade union member, no instance of the type professor role is also (at any time) an instance of the type trade union member role (any more than any instance of the type color is at any time an instance of the type length).If an ontology of employment positions should be defined in terms of roles following the above pattern, this enables the ontology to do justice to the fact that individuals instantiate the corresponding universals – professor, sergeant, nurse – only during certain phases in their lives.
elucidation: b is a role means: b is a realizable entity & b exists because there is some single bearer that is in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be& b is not such that, if it ceases to exist, then the physical make-up of the bearer is thereby changed. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [061-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (Role x) (RealizableEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [061-001]

Axiom
annotated source: role
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: b is a role means: b is a realizable entity & b exists because there is some single bearer that is in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be& b is not such that, if it ceases to exist, then the physical make-up of the bearer is thereby changed. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [061-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/061-001

Axiom
annotated source: role
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (Role x) (RealizableEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [061-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/061-001

fiat object part
type: Class
subclass of: material entity
BFO OWL specification label: fiat-object-part
BFO CLIF specification label: FiatObjectPart
example of usage: or with divisions drawn by cognitive subjects for practical reasons, such as the division of a cake (before slicing) into (what will become) slices (and thus member parts of an object aggregate). However, this does not mean that fiat object parts are dependent for their existence on divisions or delineations effected by cognitive subjects. If, for example, it is correct to conceive geological layers of the Earth as fiat object parts of the Earth, then even though these layers were first delineated in recent times, still existed long before such delineation and what holds of these layers (for example that the oldest layers are also the lowest layers) did not begin to hold because of our acts of delineation.Treatment of material entity in BFOExamples viewed by some as problematic cases for the trichotomy of fiat object part, object, and object aggregate include: a mussel on (and attached to) a rock, a slime mold, a pizza, a cloud, a galaxy, a railway train with engine and multiple carriages, a clonal stand of quaking aspen, a bacterial community (biofilm), a broken femur. Note that, as Aristotle already clearly recognized, such problematic cases – which lie at or near the penumbra of instances defined by the categories in question – need not invalidate these categories. The existence of grey objects does not prove that there are not objects which are black and objects which are white; the existence of mules does not prove that there are not objects which are donkeys and objects which are horses. It does, however, show that the examples in question need to be addressed carefully in order to show how they can be fitted into the proposed scheme, for example by recognizing additional subdivisions [29
example of usage: the FMA:regional parts of an intact human body.
example of usage: the Western hemisphere of the Earth
example of usage: the division of the brain into regions
example of usage: the division of the planet into hemispheres
example of usage: the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the body
example of usage: the upper and lower lobes of the left lung
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: Most examples of fiat object parts are associated with theoretically drawn divisions
elucidation: b is a fiat object part = Def. b is a material entity which is such that for all times t, if b exists at t then there is some object c such that b proper continuant_part of c at t and c is demarcated from the remainder of c by a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [027-004])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (FiatObjectPart x) (and (MaterialEntity x) (forall (t) (if (existsAt x t) (exists (y) (and (Object y) (properContinuantPartOfAt x y t)))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [027-004]

Axiom
annotated source: fiat object part
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: b is a fiat object part = Def. b is a material entity which is such that for all times t, if b exists at t then there is some object c such that b proper continuant_part of c at t and c is demarcated from the remainder of c by a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [027-004])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/027-004

Axiom
annotated source: fiat object part
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (FiatObjectPart x) (and (MaterialEntity x) (forall (t) (if (existsAt x t) (exists (y) (and (Object y) (properContinuantPartOfAt x y t)))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [027-004]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/027-004

one-dimensional spatial region
type: Class
subclass of: spatial region
disjoint with: three-dimensional spatial region
BFO OWL specification label: 1d-s-region
BFO CLIF specification label: OneDimensionalSpatialRegion
example of usage: an edge of a cube-shaped portion of space.
elucidation: A one-dimensional spatial region is a line or aggregate of lines stretching from one point in space to another. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [038-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [038-001]

Axiom
annotated source: one-dimensional spatial region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A one-dimensional spatial region is a line or aggregate of lines stretching from one point in space to another. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [038-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/038-001

Axiom
annotated source: one-dimensional spatial region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [038-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/038-001

object aggregate
type: Class
subclass of: material entity
BFO OWL specification label: object-aggregate
BFO CLIF specification label: ObjectAggregate
example of usage: a collection of cells in a blood biobank.
example of usage: a swarm of bees is an aggregate of members who are linked together through natural bonds
example of usage: a symphony orchestra
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)
example of usage: defined by fiat: the aggregate of members of an organization
example of usage: defined through physical attachment: the aggregate of atoms in a lump of granite
example of usage: defined through physical containment: the aggregate of molecules of carbon dioxide in a sealed container
example of usage: defined via attributive delimitations such as: the patients in this hospital
example of usage: the aggregate of bearings in a constant velocity axle joint
example of usage: the aggregate of blood cells in your body
example of usage: the nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere
example of usage: the restaurants in Palo Alto
example of usage: your collection of Meissen ceramic plates.
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).
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])
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]

Axiom
annotated source: object aggregate
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: An entity a is an object aggregate if and only if there is a mutually exhaustive and pairwise disjoint partition of a into objects
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000011

Axiom
annotated source: object aggregate
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: An entity a is an object aggregate if and only if there is a mutually exhaustive and pairwise disjoint partition of a into objects
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000301

Axiom
annotated source: object aggregate
annotated property: definition source
annotated target: 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.
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000300

Axiom
annotated source: object aggregate
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: 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])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/025-004

Axiom
annotated source: object aggregate
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (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/025-004

three-dimensional spatial region
type: Class
subclass of: spatial region
BFO OWL specification label: 3d-s-region
BFO CLIF specification label: ThreeDimensionalSpatialRegion
example of usage: a cube-shaped region of space
example of usage: a sphere-shaped region of space,
elucidation: A three-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of three dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [040-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (ThreeDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [040-001]

Axiom
annotated source: three-dimensional spatial region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A three-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of three dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [040-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/040-001

Axiom
annotated source: three-dimensional spatial region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (ThreeDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [040-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/040-001

site
type: Class
subclass of: immaterial entity
BFO OWL specification label: site
BFO CLIF specification label: Site
example of usage: Manhattan Canyon)
example of usage: a hole in the interior of a portion of cheese
example of usage: a rabbit hole
example of usage: an air traffic control region defined in the airspace above an airport
example of usage: the Grand Canyon
example of usage: the Piazza San Marco
example of usage: the cockpit of an aircraft
example of usage: the hold of a ship
example of usage: the interior of a kangaroo pouch
example of usage: the interior of the trunk of your car
example of usage: the interior of your bedroom
example of usage: the interior of your office
example of usage: the interior of your refrigerator
example of usage: the lumen of your gut
example of usage: your left nostril (a fiat part – the opening – of your left nasal cavity)
elucidation: b is a site means: b is a three-dimensional immaterial entity that is (partially or wholly) bounded by a material entity or it is a three-dimensional immaterial part thereof. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [034-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (Site x) (ImmaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [034-002]

Axiom
annotated source: site
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: b is a site means: b is a three-dimensional immaterial entity that is (partially or wholly) bounded by a material entity or it is a three-dimensional immaterial part thereof. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [034-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/034-002

Axiom
annotated source: site
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (Site x) (ImmaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [034-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/034-002

object
type: Class
subclass of: material entity
BFO OWL specification label: object
BFO CLIF specification label: Object
example of usage: atom
example of usage: cell
example of usage: cells and organisms
example of usage: engineered artifacts
example of usage: grain of sand
example of usage: molecule
example of usage: organelle
example of usage: organism
example of usage: planet
example of usage: solid portions of matter
example of usage: star
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: BFO rests on the presupposition that at multiple micro-, meso- and macroscopic scales reality exhibits certain stable, spatially separated or separable material units, combined or combinable into aggregates of various sorts (for example organisms into what are called ‘populations’). Such units play a central role in almost all domains of natural science from particle physics to cosmology. Many scientific laws govern the units in question, employing general terms (such as ‘molecule’ or ‘planet’) referring to the types and subtypes of units, and also to the types and subtypes of the processes through which such units develop and interact. The division of reality into such natural units is at the heart of biological science, as also is the fact that these units may form higher-level units (as cells form multicellular organisms) and that they may also form aggregates of units, for example as cells form portions of tissue and organs form families, herds, breeds, species, and so on. At the same time, the division of certain portions of reality into engineered units (manufactured artifacts) is the basis of modern industrial technology, which rests on the distributed mass production of engineered parts through division of labor and on their assembly into larger, compound units such as cars and laptops. The division of portions of reality into units is one starting point for the phenomenon of counting.
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: Each object is such that there are entities of which we can assert unproblematically that they lie in its interior, and other entities of which we can assert unproblematically that they lie in its exterior. This may not be so for entities lying at or near the boundary between the interior and exterior. This means that two objects – for example the two cells depicted in Figure 3 – may be such that there are material entities crossing their boundaries which belong determinately to neither cell. Something similar obtains in certain cases of conjoined twins (see below).
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: To say that b is causally unified means: b is a material entity which is such that its material parts are tied together in such a way that, in environments typical for entities of the type in question,if c, a continuant part of b that is in the interior of b at t, is larger than a certain threshold size (which will be determined differently from case to case, depending on factors such as porosity of external cover) and is moved in space to be at t at a location on the exterior of the spatial region that had been occupied by b at t, then either b’s other parts will be moved in coordinated fashion or b will be damaged (be affected, for example, by breakage or tearing) in the interval between t and t.causal changes in one part of b can have consequences for other parts of b without the mediation of any entity that lies on the exterior of b. Material entities with no proper material parts would satisfy these conditions trivially. Candidate examples of types of causal unity for material entities of more complex sorts are as follows (this is not intended to be an exhaustive list):CU1: Causal unity via physical coveringHere the parts in the interior of the unified entity are combined together causally through a common membrane or other physical covering\. The latter points outwards toward and may serve a protective function in relation to what lies on the exterior of the entity [13, 47
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: an object is a maximal causally unified material entity
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: ‘objects’ are sometimes referred to as ‘grains’ [74
elucidation: b is an object means: b is a material entity which manifests causal unity of one or other of the types CUn listed above & is of a type (a material universal) instances of which are maximal relative to this criterion of causal unity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [024-001])

Axiom
annotated source: object
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: b is an object means: b is a material entity which manifests causal unity of one or other of the types CUn listed above & is of a type (a material universal) instances of which are maximal relative to this criterion of causal unity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [024-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/024-001

generically dependent continuant
type: Class
subclass of: continuant
BFO OWL specification label: gdc
BFO CLIF specification label: GenericallyDependentContinuant
example of usage: The entries in your database are patterns instantiated as quality instances in your hard drive. The database itself is an aggregate of such patterns. When you create the database you create a particular instance of the generically dependent continuant type database. Each entry in the database is an instance of the generically dependent continuant type IAO: information content entity.
example of usage: the pdf file on your laptop, the pdf file that is a copy thereof on my laptop
example of usage: the sequence of this protein molecule; the sequence that is a copy thereof in that protein molecule.
definition: b is a generically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant that g-depends_on one or more other entities. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [074-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (GenericallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (exists (b t) (genericallyDependsOnAt a b t)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [074-001]

Axiom
annotated source: generically dependent continuant
annotated property: definition
annotated target: b is a generically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant that g-depends_on one or more other entities. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [074-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/074-001

Axiom
annotated source: generically dependent continuant
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (GenericallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (exists (b t) (genericallyDependsOnAt a b t)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [074-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/074-001

function
type: Class
subclass of: disposition
BFO OWL specification label: function
BFO CLIF specification label: Function
example of usage: the function of a hammer to drive in nails
example of usage: the function of a heart pacemaker to regulate the beating of a heart through electricity
example of usage: the function of amylase in saliva to break down starch into sugar
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: In the past, we have distinguished two varieties of function, artifactual function and biological function. These are not asserted subtypes of BFO:function however, since the same function – for example: to pump, to transport – can exist both in artifacts and in biological entities. The asserted subtypes of function that would be needed in order to yield a separate monoheirarchy are not artifactual function, biological function, etc., but rather transporting function, pumping function, etc.
elucidation: A function is a disposition that exists in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up and this physical make-up is something the bearer possesses because it came into being, either through evolution (in the case of natural biological entities) or through intentional design (in the case of artifacts), in order to realize processes of a certain sort. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [064-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (Function x) (Disposition x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [064-001]

Axiom
annotated source: function
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A function is a disposition that exists in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up and this physical make-up is something the bearer possesses because it came into being, either through evolution (in the case of natural biological entities) or through intentional design (in the case of artifacts), in order to realize processes of a certain sort. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [064-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/064-001

Axiom
annotated source: function
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (Function x) (Disposition x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [064-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/064-001

process boundary
type: Class
subclass of: occurrent
BFO OWL specification label: p-boundary
BFO CLIF specification label: ProcessBoundary
example of usage: the boundary between the 2nd and 3rd year of your life.
definition: p is a process boundary =Def. p is a temporal part of a process & p has no proper temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [084-001])
has associated axiom(nl): Every process boundary occupies_temporal_region a zero-dimensional temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [085-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (ProcessBoundary x) (exists (y) (and (ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion y) (occupiesTemporalRegion x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [085-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (ProcessBoundary a) (exists (p) (and (Process p) (temporalPartOf a p) (not (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [084-001]

Axiom
annotated source: process boundary
annotated property: definition
annotated target: p is a process boundary =Def. p is a temporal part of a process & p has no proper temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [084-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/084-001

Axiom
annotated source: process boundary
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: Every process boundary occupies_temporal_region a zero-dimensional temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [085-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/085-002

Axiom
annotated source: process boundary
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (ProcessBoundary x) (exists (y) (and (ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion y) (occupiesTemporalRegion x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [085-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/085-002

Axiom
annotated source: process boundary
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (ProcessBoundary a) (exists (p) (and (Process p) (temporalPartOf a p) (not (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [084-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/084-001

one-dimensional temporal region
type: Class
subclass of: temporal region
disjoint with: zero-dimensional temporal region
BFO OWL specification label: 1d-t-region
BFO CLIF specification label: OneDimensionalTemporalRegion
example of usage: the temporal region during which a process occurs.
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: A temporal interval is a special kind of one-dimensional temporal region, namely one that is self-connected (is without gaps or breaks).
elucidation: A one-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is extended. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [103-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (OneDimensionalTemporalRegion x) (TemporalRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [103-001]

Axiom
annotated source: one-dimensional temporal region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A one-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is extended. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [103-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/103-001

Axiom
annotated source: one-dimensional temporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (OneDimensionalTemporalRegion x) (TemporalRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [103-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/103-001

material entity
type: Class
subclass of: independent continuant
disjoint with: immaterial entity
BFO OWL specification label: material
BFO CLIF specification label: MaterialEntity
example of usage: a flame
example of usage: a forest fire
example of usage: a human being
example of usage: a hurricane
example of usage: a photon
example of usage: a puff of smoke
example of usage: a sea wave
example of usage: a tornado
example of usage: an aggregate of human beings.
example of usage: an energy wave
example of usage: an epidemic
example of usage: the undetached arm of a human being
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: Material entities (continuants) can preserve their identity even while gaining and losing material parts. Continuants are contrasted with occurrents, which unfold themselves in successive temporal parts or phases [60
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: Object, Fiat Object Part and Object Aggregate are not intended to be exhaustive of Material Entity. Users are invited to propose new subcategories of Material Entity.
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: ‘Matter’ is intended to encompass both mass and energy (we will address the ontological treatment of portions of energy in a later version of BFO). A portion of matter is anything that includes elementary particles among its proper or improper parts: quarks and leptons, including electrons, as the smallest particles thus far discovered; baryons (including protons and neutrons) at a higher level of granularity; atoms and molecules at still higher levels, forming the cells, organs, organisms and other material entities studied by biologists, the portions of rock studied by geologists, the fossils studied by paleontologists, and so on.Material entities are three-dimensional entities (entities extended in three spatial dimensions), as contrasted with the processes in which they participate, which are four-dimensional entities (entities extended also along the dimension of time).According to the FMA, material entities may have immaterial entities as parts – including the entities identified below as sites; for example the interior (or ‘lumen’) of your small intestine is a part of your body. BFO 2.0 embodies a decision to follow the FMA here.
elucidation: A material entity is an independent continuant that has some portion of matter as proper or improper continuant part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [019-002])
has associated axiom(nl): Every entity which has a material entity as continuant part is a material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [020-002])
has associated axiom(nl): every entity of which a material entity is continuant part is also a material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [021-002])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (MaterialEntity x) (IndependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [019-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (and (Entity x) (exists (y t) (and (MaterialEntity y) (continuantPartOfAt x y t)))) (MaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [021-002]
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (and (Entity x) (exists (y t) (and (MaterialEntity y) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)))) (MaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [020-002]

Axiom
annotated source: material entity
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (and (Entity x) (exists (y t) (and (MaterialEntity y) (continuantPartOfAt x y t)))) (MaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [021-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/021-002

Axiom
annotated source: material entity
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (and (Entity x) (exists (y t) (and (MaterialEntity y) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)))) (MaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [020-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/020-002

Axiom
annotated source: material entity
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A material entity is an independent continuant that has some portion of matter as proper or improper continuant part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [019-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/019-002

Axiom
annotated source: material entity
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: Every entity which has a material entity as continuant part is a material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [020-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/020-002

Axiom
annotated source: material entity
annotated property: has associated axiom(nl)
annotated target: every entity of which a material entity is continuant part is also a material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [021-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/021-002

Axiom
annotated source: material entity
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (MaterialEntity x) (IndependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [019-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/019-002

continuant fiat boundary
type: Class
subclass of: immaterial entity
BFO OWL specification label: cf-boundary
BFO CLIF specification label: ContinuantFiatBoundary
definition: b is a continuant fiat boundary = Def. b is an immaterial entity that is of zero, one or two dimensions and does not include a spatial region as part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [029-001])
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: In BFO 1.1 the assumption was made that the external surface of a material entity such as a cell could be treated as if it were a boundary in the mathematical sense. The new document propounds the view that when we talk about external surfaces of material objects in this way then we are talking about something fiat. To be dealt with in a future version: fiat boundaries at different levels of granularity.More generally, the focus in discussion of boundaries in BFO 2.0 is now on fiat boundaries, which means: boundaries for which there is no assumption that they coincide with physical discontinuities. The ontology of boundaries becomes more closely allied with the ontology of regions.
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: a continuant fiat boundary is a boundary of some material entity (for example: the plane separating the Northern and Southern hemispheres; the North Pole), or it is a boundary of some immaterial entity (for example of some portion of airspace). Three basic kinds of continuant fiat boundary can be distinguished (together with various combination kinds [29
editor note: Continuant fiat boundary doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary and a one dimensional continuant fiat boundary that doesn't overlap it. The situation is analogous to temporal and spatial regions.
has associated axiom(nl): Every continuant fiat boundary is located at some spatial region at every time at which it exists
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ImmaterialEntity a) (exists (b) (and (or (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion b)) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))) (not (exists (c t) (and (SpatialRegion c) (continuantPartOfAt c a t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [029-001]

Axiom
annotated source: continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: definition
annotated target: b is a continuant fiat boundary = Def. b is an immaterial entity that is of zero, one or two dimensions and does not include a spatial region as part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [029-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/029-001

Axiom
annotated source: continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: Continuant fiat boundary doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary and a one dimensional continuant fiat boundary that doesn't overlap it. The situation is analogous to temporal and spatial regions.
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000008

Axiom
annotated source: continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ImmaterialEntity a) (exists (b) (and (or (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion b)) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))) (not (exists (c t) (and (SpatialRegion c) (continuantPartOfAt c a t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [029-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/029-001

immaterial entity
type: Class
subclass of: independent continuant
BFO OWL specification label: immaterial
BFO CLIF specification label: ImmaterialEntity
editor note: BFO 2 Reference: Immaterial entities are divided into two subgroups:boundaries and sites, which bound, or are demarcated in relation, to material entities, and which can thus change location, shape and size and as their material hosts move or change shape or size (for example: your nasal passage; the hold of a ship; the boundary of Wales (which moves with the rotation of the Earth) [38, 7, 10

one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
type: Class
subclass of: continuant fiat boundary
disjoint with: two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
disjoint with: zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
BFO OWL specification label: 1d-cf-boundary
BFO CLIF specification label: OneDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary
example of usage: The Equator
example of usage: all geopolitical boundaries
example of usage: all lines of latitude and longitude
example of usage: the line separating the outer surface of the mucosa of the lower lip from the outer surface of the skin of the chin.
example of usage: the median sulcus of your tongue
elucidation: a one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary is a continuous fiat line whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [032-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (OneDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [032-001]

Axiom
annotated source: one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: a one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary is a continuous fiat line whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [032-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/032-001

Axiom
annotated source: one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (OneDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [032-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/032-001

process profile
type: Class
subclass of: process
disjoint with: history
BFO OWL specification label: process-profile
BFO CLIF specification label: ProcessProfile
example of usage: On a somewhat higher level of complexity are what we shall call rate process profiles, which are the targets of selective abstraction focused not on determinate quality magnitudes plotted over time, but rather on certain ratios between these magnitudes and elapsed times. A speed process profile, for example, is represented by a graph plotting against time the ratio of distance covered per unit of time. Since rates may change, and since such changes, too, may have rates of change, we have to deal here with a hierarchy of process profile universals at successive levels
example of usage: One important sub-family of rate process profiles is illustrated by the beat or frequency profiles of cyclical processes, illustrated by the 60 beats per minute beating process of John’s heart, or the 120 beats per minute drumming process involved in one of John’s performances in a rock band, and so on. Each such process includes what we shall call a beat process profile instance as part, a subtype of rate process profile in which the salient ratio is not distance covered but rather number of beat cycles per unit of time. Each beat process profile instance instantiates the determinable universal beat process profile. But it also instantiates multiple more specialized universals at lower levels of generality, selected from rate process profilebeat process profileregular beat process profile3 bpm beat process profile4 bpm beat process profileirregular beat process profileincreasing beat process profileand so on.In the case of a regular beat process profile, a rate can be assigned in the simplest possible fashion by dividing the number of cycles by the length of the temporal region occupied by the beating process profile as a whole. Irregular process profiles of this sort, for example as identified in the clinic, or in the readings on an aircraft instrument panel, are often of diagnostic significance.
example of usage: The simplest type of process profiles are what we shall call ‘quality process profiles’, which are the process profiles which serve as the foci of the sort of selective abstraction that is involved when measurements are made of changes in single qualities, as illustrated, for example, by process profiles of mass, temperature, aortic pressure, and so on.
definition: b is a process_profile =Def. there is some process c such that b process_profile_of c (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [093-002])
elucidation: b process_profile_of c holds when b proper_occurrent_part_of c& there is some proper_occurrent_part d of c which has no parts in common with b & is mutually dependent on b& is such that b, c and d occupy the same temporal region (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [094-005])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x y) (if (processProfileOf x y) (and (properContinuantPartOf x y) (exists (z t) (and (properOccurrentPartOf z y) (TemporalRegion t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion y t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion z t) (not (exists (w) (and (occurrentPartOf w x) (occurrentPartOf w z))))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [094-005]
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (ProcessProfile a) (exists (b) (and (Process b) (processProfileOf a b)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [093-002]

Axiom
annotated source: process profile
annotated property: definition
annotated target: b is a process_profile =Def. there is some process c such that b process_profile_of c (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [093-002])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/093-002

Axiom
annotated source: process profile
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: b process_profile_of c holds when b proper_occurrent_part_of c& there is some proper_occurrent_part d of c which has no parts in common with b & is mutually dependent on b& is such that b, c and d occupy the same temporal region (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [094-005])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/094-005

Axiom
annotated source: process profile
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x y) (if (processProfileOf x y) (and (properContinuantPartOf x y) (exists (z t) (and (properOccurrentPartOf z y) (TemporalRegion t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion y t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion z t) (not (exists (w) (and (occurrentPartOf w x) (occurrentPartOf w z))))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [094-005]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/094-005

Axiom
annotated source: process profile
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (ProcessProfile a) (exists (b) (and (Process b) (processProfileOf a b)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [093-002]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/093-002

relational quality
type: Class
subclass of: quality
BFO OWL specification label: r-quality
BFO CLIF specification label: RelationalQuality
example of usage: John’s role of husband to Mary is dependent on Mary’s role of wife to John, and both are dependent on the object aggregate comprising John and Mary as member parts joined together through the relational quality of being married.
example of usage: a marriage bond, an instance of requited love, an obligation between one person and another.
definition: b is a relational quality = Def. for some independent continuants c, d and for some time t: b quality_of c at t & b quality_of d at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [057-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (RelationalQuality a) (exists (b c t) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (IndependentContinuant c) (qualityOfAt a b t) (qualityOfAt a c t)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [057-001]

Axiom
annotated source: relational quality
annotated property: definition
annotated target: b is a relational quality = Def. for some independent continuants c, d and for some time t: b quality_of c at t & b quality_of d at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [057-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/057-001

Axiom
annotated source: relational quality
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (RelationalQuality a) (exists (b c t) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (IndependentContinuant c) (qualityOfAt a b t) (qualityOfAt a c t)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [057-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/057-001

two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
type: Class
subclass of: continuant fiat boundary
BFO OWL specification label: 2d-cf-boundary
BFO CLIF specification label: TwoDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary
elucidation: a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary (surface) is a self-connected fiat surface whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [033-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (TwoDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [033-001]

Axiom
annotated source: two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary (surface) is a self-connected fiat surface whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [033-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/033-001

Axiom
annotated source: two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (TwoDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [033-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/033-001

zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
type: Class
subclass of: continuant fiat boundary
BFO OWL specification label: 0d-cf-boundary
BFO CLIF specification label: ZeroDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary
example of usage: the geographic North Pole
example of usage: the point of origin of some spatial coordinate system.
example of usage: the quadripoint where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet
editor note: zero dimension continuant fiat boundaries are not spatial points. Considering the example 'the quadripoint where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet' : There are many frames in which that point is zooming through many points in space. Whereas, no matter what the frame, the quadripoint is always in the same relation to the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.
elucidation: a zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary is a fiat point whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [031-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (iff (ZeroDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [031-001]

Axiom
annotated source: zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: editor note
annotated target: zero dimension continuant fiat boundaries are not spatial points. Considering the example 'the quadripoint where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet' : There are many frames in which that point is zooming through many points in space. Whereas, no matter what the frame, the quadripoint is always in the same relation to the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/0000001
comment: requested by Melanie Courtot

Axiom
annotated source: zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: a zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary is a fiat point whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [031-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/031-001

Axiom
annotated source: zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (iff (ZeroDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [031-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/031-001

zero-dimensional temporal region
type: Class
subclass of: temporal region
BFO OWL specification label: 0d-t-region
BFO CLIF specification label: ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion
example of usage: a temporal region that is occupied by a process boundary
example of usage: right now
example of usage: the moment at which a child is born
example of usage: the moment at which a finger is detached in an industrial accident
example of usage: the moment of death.
alternative label: temporal instant.
elucidation: A zero-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is without extent. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [102-001])
has associated axiom(fol): (forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion x) (TemporalRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [102-001]

Axiom
annotated source: zero-dimensional temporal region
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A zero-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is without extent. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [102-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/102-001

Axiom
annotated source: zero-dimensional temporal region
annotated property: has associated axiom(fol)
annotated target: (forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion x) (TemporalRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [102-001]
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/102-001

history
type: Class
subclass of: process
BFO OWL specification label: history
BFO CLIF specification label: History
elucidation: A history is a process that is the sum of the totality of processes taking place in the spatiotemporal region occupied by a material entity or site, including processes on the surface of the entity or within the cavities to which it serves as host. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [138-001])

Axiom
annotated source: history
annotated property: elucidation
annotated target: A history is a process that is the sum of the totality of processes taking place in the spatiotemporal region occupied by a material entity or site, including processes on the surface of the entity or within the cavities to which it serves as host. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [138-001])
has axiom label: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/axiom/138-001

conditioned taste aversion
type: Class
subclass of: feeding behavior
subclass of: associative learning
definition: A conditioned aversion to a specific chemical compound as a result of that compound being coupled with a noxious stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral fear response
type: Class
subclass of: behavioral defense response
definition: An acute behavioral change resulting from a perceived external threat.
imported from: go.owl

suckling behavior
type: Class
subclass of: feeding behavior
subclass of: multi-organism behavior
definition: Specific behavior of a newborn or infant mammal that results in the derivation of nourishment from the breast.
imported from: go.owl

reduction of food intake in response to dietary excess
type: Class
subclass of: eating behavior
definition: An eating behavior process whereby detection of a dietary excess results in a decrease in intake of nutrients.
imported from: go.owl

aggressive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: multi-organism behavior
definition: A behavioral interaction between organisms in which one organism has the intention of inflicting physical damage on another individual.
imported from: go.owl

predatory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: aggressive behavior
definition: Aggressive behavior involving attack on prey by a predator.
imported from: go.owl

inter-male aggressive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: aggressive behavior
definition: Aggressive behavior based on competition between males of the same species over access to resources such as females, dominance, status, etc. and characterized by noise, threats, and is often less injurious.
imported from: go.owl

fear-induced aggressive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: aggressive behavior
definition: Aggressive behavior associated with attempts to flee from a threat.
imported from: go.owl

irritable aggressive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: aggressive behavior
definition: Aggressive behavior induced by frustration and directed against an available target.
imported from: go.owl

territorial aggressive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: aggressive behavior
definition: Aggressive behavior performed in defence of a fixed area against intruders, typically conspecifics.
imported from: go.owl

maternal aggressive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: aggressive behavior
definition: Aggressive behavior of a female to protect her offspring from a threat.
imported from: go.owl

instrumental aggressive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: aggressive behavior
definition: Aggressive behavior directed towards obtaining some goal, considered to be a learned response to a situation.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral defense response
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: A behavioral response seeking to protect an organism from an a perceived external threat to that organism.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to wounding
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: A behavioral response resulting from wounding.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral defense response to insect
type: Class
subclass of: behavioral defense response
subclass of: multi-organism behavior
definition: A behavioral response seeking to protect an organism from an a perceived external threat from an insect or insects to that organism.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral defense response to nematode
type: Class
subclass of: behavioral defense response
subclass of: multi-organism behavior
definition: A behavioral response seeking to protect an organism from an a perceived external threat from a nematode or nematodes to that organism.
imported from: go.owl

angiotensin-mediated drinking behavior
type: Class
subclass of: drinking behavior
definition: The drinking behavior that is mediated by the action of angiotensin in the brain. Angiotensin stimulates the brain centers that control thirst.
imported from: go.owl

behavior
type: Class
subclass of: bodily process
definition: The internally coordinated responses (actions or inactions) of animals (individuals or groups) to internal or external stimuli, via a mechanism that involves nervous system activity.
imported from: go.owl

learning or memory
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The acquisition and processing of information and/or the storage and retrieval of this information over time.
imported from: go.owl

learning
type: Class
subclass of: learning or memory
subclass of: mental process
definition: Any process in an organism in which a relatively long-lasting adaptive behavioral change occurs as the result of experience.
imported from: go.owl

memory
type: Class
subclass of: learning or memory
definition: The activities involved in the mental information processing system that receives (registers), modifies, stores, and retrieves informational stimuli. The main stages involved in the formation and retrieval of memory are encoding (processing of received information by acquisition), storage (building a permanent record of received information as a result of consolidation) and retrieval (calling back the stored information and use it in a suitable way to execute a given task).
imported from: go.owl

short-term memory
type: Class
subclass of: memory
definition: The memory process that deals with the storage, retrieval and modification of information received a short time (up to about 30 minutes) ago. This type of memory is typically dependent on direct, transient effects of second messenger activation.
imported from: go.owl

anesthesia-resistant memory
type: Class
subclass of: memory
definition: The memory process that results in the formation of consolidated memory resistant to disruption of the patterned activity of the brain, without requiring protein synthesis.
imported from: go.owl

long-term memory
type: Class
subclass of: memory
definition: The memory process that deals with the storage, retrieval and modification of information a long time (typically weeks, months or years) after receiving that information. This type of memory is typically dependent on gene transcription regulated by second messenger activation.
imported from: go.owl

mating behavior
type: Class
subclass of: reproductive behavior
definition: The behavioral interactions between organisms for the purpose of mating, or sexual reproduction resulting in the formation of zygotes.
imported from: go.owl

courtship behavior
type: Class
subclass of: mating behavior
definition: The behavioral interactions between organisms for the purpose of attracting sexual partners.
imported from: go.owl

negative regulation of female receptivity
type: Class
subclass of: regulation of female receptivity
definition: Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the receptiveness of a female to male advances.
imported from: go.owl

rhythmic behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism that recur with measured regularity.
imported from: go.owl

grooming behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism relating to grooming, cleaning and brushing to remove dirt and parasites.
imported from: go.owl

locomotory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The specific movement from place to place of an organism in response to external or internal stimuli. Locomotion of a whole organism in a manner dependent upon some combination of that organism's internal state and external conditions.
imported from: go.owl

adult walking behavior
type: Class
subclass of: adult locomotory behavior
subclass of: walking behavior
definition: The behavior of an adult relating to the progression of that organism along the ground by the process of lifting and setting down each leg.
imported from: go.owl

flight behavior
type: Class
subclass of: adult locomotory behavior
definition: The response to external or internal stimuli that results in the locomotory process of flight. Flight is the self-propelled movement of an organism through the air.
imported from: go.owl

jump response
type: Class
subclass of: adult locomotory behavior
definition: The sudden, usually upward, movement off the ground or other surface through sudden muscular effort in the legs, following exposure to an external stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

feeding behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Behavior associated with the intake of food.
imported from: go.owl

visual behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The behavior of an organism in response to a visual stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

pattern orientation
type: Class
subclass of: visual behavior
definition: The actions or reactions of an individual in response to the orientation of a visual pattern. This is exemplified by some classes of insects which are able to detect and learn the orientation of a set of stripes and subsequently behaviorally discriminate between horizontal, vertical or 45 degree stripes.
imported from: go.owl

optokinetic behavior
type: Class
subclass of: visual behavior
definition: The behavior of an organism pertaining to movement of the eyes and of objects in the visual field, as in nystagmus.
imported from: go.owl

chemosensory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Behavior that is dependent upon the sensation of chemicals.
imported from: go.owl

chemosensory jump behavior
type: Class
subclass of: jump response
subclass of: chemosensory behavior
definition: The sudden, usually upward, movement off the ground or other surface through sudden muscular effort in the legs, following exposure to a chemical substance.
imported from: go.owl

proboscis extension reflex
type: Class
subclass of: chemosensory behavior
subclass of: behavioral response to nutrient
definition: The extension, through direct muscle actions, of the proboscis (the trunk-like extension of the mouthparts on the adult external head) in response to a sugar stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

mechanosensory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Behavior that is dependent upon the sensation of a mechanical stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

male courtship behavior
type: Class
subclass of: male mating behavior
definition: The behavior of a male, for the purpose of attracting a sexual partner. An example of this process is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
imported from: go.owl

female courtship behavior
type: Class
subclass of: female mating behavior
definition: The behavior of a female, for the purpose of attracting a sexual partner.
imported from: go.owl

eclosion rhythm
type: Class
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: The timing of the emergence of the adult fly from its pupal case, which usually occurs at dawn.
imported from: go.owl

associative learning
type: Class
subclass of: learning
definition: Learning by associating a stimulus (the cause) with a particular outcome (the effect).
imported from: go.owl

adult feeding behavior
type: Class
subclass of: feeding behavior
subclass of: adult behavior
definition: Feeding behavior in a fully developed and mature organism.
imported from: go.owl

adult locomotory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: locomotory behavior
subclass of: adult behavior
definition: Locomotory behavior in a fully developed and mature organism.
imported from: go.owl

larval locomotory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: locomotory behavior
subclass of: larval behavior
definition: Locomotory behavior in a larval (immature) organism.
imported from: go.owl

larval walking behavior
type: Class
subclass of: larval locomotory behavior
subclass of: walking behavior
definition: The behavior of a larval organism relating to the progression of that organism along the ground by the process of lifting and setting down each leg.
imported from: go.owl

olfactory learning
type: Class
subclass of: associative learning
subclass of: olfactory behavior
definition: Any process in an organism in which a relatively long-lasting adaptive behavioral change occurs in response to (repeated) exposure to an olfactory cue.
imported from: go.owl

visual learning
type: Class
subclass of: visual behavior
subclass of: associative learning
definition: Any process in an organism in which a change in behavior of an individual occurs in response to repeated exposure to a visual cue.
imported from: go.owl

male courtship behavior, orientation prior to leg tapping and wing vibration
type: Class
subclass of: male courtship behavior
definition: The process during courtship, where the male orients towards a potential partner. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
imported from: go.owl

male courtship behavior, tapping to detect pheromone
type: Class
subclass of: male courtship behavior
definition: The process during courtship where the male insect taps the female with his frontal leg. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
imported from: go.owl

male courtship behavior, veined wing vibration
type: Class
subclass of: male courtship behavior, veined wing extension
definition: The process during courtship where the male insect vibrates his wings. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
imported from: go.owl

male courtship behavior, proboscis-mediated licking
type: Class
subclass of: male courtship behavior
definition: The process during courtship where the male fly licks the genitalia of a stationary female fly with his proboscis. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
imported from: go.owl

oviposition
type: Class
subclass of: reproductive behavior
definition: The deposition of eggs (either fertilized or not) upon a surface or into a medium such as water.
imported from: go.owl

reproductive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism that is associated with reproduction.
imported from: go.owl

circadian sleep/wake cycle process
type: Class
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: A behavioral process involved in the cycle from wakefulness through an orderly succession of sleep states and stages that occurs on an approximately 24 hour rhythm.
imported from: go.owl

adult behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Behavior in a fully developed and mature organism.
imported from: go.owl

larval feeding behavior
type: Class
subclass of: feeding behavior
subclass of: larval behavior
definition: Feeding behavior in a larval (immature) organism.
imported from: go.owl

larval behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Behavior in a larval form of an organism, an immature organism that must undergo metamorphosis to assume adult characteristics.
imported from: go.owl

auditory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: mechanosensory behavior
definition: The behavior of an organism in response to a sound.
imported from: go.owl

host-seeking behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism that are associated with finding a host organism; may include behavioral responses to light, temperature, or chemical emanations from the prospective host.
imported from: go.owl

response to hermaphrodite contact
type: Class
subclass of: male mating behavior
definition: The response by the male to a hermaphrodite after initial contact following mate finding. The male stops forward locomotion, presses the ventral side of his tail against his partner's body, and begins moving backward along the hermaphrodite. Male response behavior is initiated when sensory neurons located in the rays of his tail contact a potential mate.
imported from: go.owl

turning behavior involved in mating
type: Class
subclass of: turning behavior
subclass of: male mating behavior
definition: The sharp ventral turn performed by the male as he approaches either the hermaphrodite head or tail, whilst trying to locate his partner's vulva. Turning occurs via a sharp ventral coil of the male's tail.
imported from: go.owl

vulval location
type: Class
subclass of: male mating behavior
definition: Location, by the male, of his partner's vulva when backing along the ventral side of the hermaphrodite during mating. The male stops at the vulva, coordinates his movements to the hermaphrodite's, and positions his tail precisely over the vulva so that he may insert his spicules and ejaculate.
imported from: go.owl

spicule insertion
type: Class
subclass of: male mating behavior
definition: Insertion of the male copulatory spicules into the hermaphrodite. Spicule insertion behavior initiates when the male cloaca contacts the vulva. During most mating encounters, the spicule tips will prod the vulva continuously until they partially penetrate, which then causes the protractors to contract completely so that the spicules extend through the vulva.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to nicotine
type: Class
subclass of: adult behavior
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behavior of an organism as a result of a nicotine stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

operant conditioning
type: Class
subclass of: learning
definition: Learning to anticipate future events on the basis of past experience with the consequences of one's own behavior.
imported from: go.owl

social behavior
type: Class
subclass of: multi-organism behavior
definition: Behavior directed towards society, or taking place between members of the same species. Occurs predominantly, or only, in individuals that are part of a group.
imported from: go.owl

larval foraging behavior
type: Class
subclass of: larval behavior
subclass of: foraging behavior
definition: The movement of a larva through a feeding substrate whilst feeding on food.
imported from: go.owl

turning behavior
type: Class
subclass of: locomotory behavior
definition: Fine-tuning the spatial position of an organism in response to variability in their environment. For example, reorientation of an organism in the direction of a food source.
imported from: go.owl

larval turning behavior
type: Class
subclass of: larval locomotory behavior
subclass of: turning behavior
definition: Fine-tuning the spatial position of a larva in response to variability in their environment. For example, reorientation of a larva in the direction of a food source.
imported from: go.owl

larval wandering behavior
type: Class
subclass of: larval locomotory behavior
definition: The movement of a third instar larva through a substrate in search of a pupation site. This movement occurs without feeding and is characterized by short bursts of forward movement, separated by stops and repeated side-to-side head probes, followed normally by a change in direction.
imported from: go.owl

larval burrowing behavior
type: Class
subclass of: larval locomotory behavior
definition: Digging into the substrate by non-feeding larvae in search for food-free sites suitable for pupation.
imported from: go.owl

hatching behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism during the emergence from an egg shell. In Drosophila for example, the larva swings its head reiteratively through a semicircular arc, using its mouth hooks to tear apart the chorion in front of it and thus free itself from within the egg shell.
imported from: go.owl

salt aversion
type: Class
subclass of: feeding behavior
definition: The specific avoidance actions or reactions of an organism in response to the perception of salt.
imported from: go.owl

exploration behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism in response to a novel environment or stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

locomotory exploration behavior
type: Class
subclass of: locomotory behavior
subclass of: exploration behavior
definition: The specific movement from place to place of an organism in response to a novel environment.
imported from: go.owl

circadian mating behavior
type: Class
subclass of: mating behavior
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: The fluctuation in mating behavior that occurs over an approximately 24 hour cycle.
imported from: go.owl

injection of substance in to other organism
type: Class
subclass of: multi-organism behavior
definition: The process of forcing a substance into another organism, either by penetrating the skin of the other organism or by applying the substance externally to a sensitive tissue such as those that surround the eyes.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
type: Class
subclass of: injection of substance in to other organism
definition: The process which begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the manifestation of some change or damage to the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

swimming behavior
type: Class
subclass of: locomotory behavior
definition: The response to external or internal stimuli that results in the locomotory process of swimming. Swimming is the self-propelled movement of an organism through the water.
imported from: go.owl

psychomotor behavior
type: Class
subclass of: motor behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism that combines cognitive functions and physical movement. For example, driving a car, throwing a ball, or playing a musical instrument.
imported from: go.owl

thermosensory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Behavior that is dependent upon the sensation of temperature.
imported from: go.owl

olfactory behavior
type: Class
subclass of: chemosensory behavior
definition: The behavior of an organism in response to an odor.
imported from: go.owl

vocal learning
type: Class
subclass of: auditory behavior
subclass of: imitative learning
subclass of: learned vocalization behavior or vocal learning
definition: A behavioral process whose outcome is a relatively long-lasting behavioral change whereby an organism modifies innate vocalizations to imitate sounds produced by others.
imported from: go.owl

mating plug formation
type: Class
subclass of: mating behavior
subclass of: post-mating behavior
definition: The deposition of a plug of sperm or other gelatinous material into the opening of the vulva by a male at the termination of copulation. Probably acts to prevent subsequent matings by other males.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to water deprivation
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behavior of an organism as a result of deprivation of water.
imported from: go.owl

maternal behavior
type: Class
subclass of: parental behavior
definition: Female behaviors associated with the care and rearing of offspring.
imported from: go.owl

paternal behavior
type: Class
subclass of: parental behavior
definition: Male behaviors associated with the care and rearing offspring.
imported from: go.owl

circadian sleep/wake cycle
type: Class
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: The cycle from wakefulness through an orderly succession of sleep states and stages that occurs on an approximately 24 hour rhythm.
imported from: go.owl

circadian sleep/wake cycle, wakefulness
type: Class
subclass of: circadian sleep/wake cycle process
definition: The part of the circadian sleep/wake cycle where the organism is not asleep.
imported from: go.owl

circadian sleep/wake cycle, REM sleep
type: Class
subclass of: circadian sleep/wake cycle process
definition: A stage in the circadian sleep cycle during which dreams occur and the body undergoes marked changes including rapid eye movement, loss of reflexes, and increased pulse rate and brain activity.
imported from: go.owl

circadian sleep/wake cycle, non-REM sleep
type: Class
subclass of: circadian sleep/wake cycle process
definition: All sleep stages in the circadian sleep/wake cycle other than REM sleep. These stages are characterized by a slowing of brain waves and other physiological functions.
imported from: go.owl

eating behavior
type: Class
subclass of: feeding behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism relating to the intake of food, any substance (usually solid) that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
imported from: go.owl

drinking behavior
type: Class
subclass of: feeding behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism relating to the intake of liquids, especially water.
imported from: go.owl

pharyngeal pumping
type: Class
subclass of: eating behavior
definition: The contraction and relaxation movements of the pharyngeal muscle that mediate feeding in nematodes.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in hemorrhagic damage to other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with vascular damage and hemorrhage in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of platelet aggregation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of blood coagulation in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant change to the frequency, rate or extent of platelet aggregation in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

injection of substance into other organism during feeding on blood of other organism
type: Class
subclass of: injection of substance in to other organism
definition: The process of forcing a substance into the bloodstream of another organism, whilst feeding on blood of other organism. The substance may facilitate the feeding process, e.g. by preventing the blood from clotting.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in induction of edema in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the swelling of soft tissues of the bitten organism as a result of excess water accumulation.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of blood coagulation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the modulation of the frequency, rate or extent of blood coagulation in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of blood coagulation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of blood coagulation in other organism
subclass of: envenomation resulting in impairment of hemostasis in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant activation, maintenance or an increase in the frequency, rate or extent of blood coagulation in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of blood coagulation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of blood coagulation in other organism
subclass of: envenomation resulting in impairment of hemostasis in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant stopping, prevention or reduction in the frequency, rate or extent of blood coagulation in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in pore formation in membrane of other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the aggregation, arrangement and bonding together of a set of components to form a pore complex in a membrane of the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of calcium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of ion channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant change in the activity of a calcium channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of calcium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of calcium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant stopping, prevention or reduction of the activity of a calcium channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of voltage-gated calcium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in negative regulation of calcium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant stopping, prevention or reduction of the activity of a voltage-gated calcium channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of high voltage-gated calcium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in negative regulation of voltage-gated calcium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant stopping, prevention or reduction of the activity of a high voltage-gated calcium channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of low voltage-gated calcium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in negative regulation of voltage-gated calcium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant stopping, prevention or reduction of the activity of a low voltage-gated calcium channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of platelet aggregation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of platelet aggregation in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant stopping, prevention or reduction in the frequency, rate or extent of platelet aggregation in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of platelet aggregation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of platelet aggregation in other organism
subclass of: envenomation resulting in positive regulation of blood coagulation in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant activation, maintenance or an increase in the frequency, rate or extent of platelet aggregation in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of mast cell degranulation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of blood mast cell degranulation in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of mast cell degranulation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of mast cell degranulation in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant positive regulation of blood mast cell degranulation in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in proteolysis in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant hydrolysis of proteins in of the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in blood vessel extracellular matrix damage, causing hemorrhagic damage in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in hemorrhagic damage to other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism which causes damage to the extracellular matrix of the blood vessels of the bitten organism, ultimately resulting in hemorrhage in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in impairment of hemostasis in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the inhibition of the process of hemostasis - the stopping of bleeding or the arrest of the circulation to an organ or part - in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in fibrinolysis in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in impairment of hemostasis in other organism
definition: The process which begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with fibrinolysis, a process that solubilizes fibrin, chiefly by the proteolytic action of plasmin, in the bloodstream of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in fibrinogenolysis in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in depletion of circulating fibrinogen in other organism
definition: The process which begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with fibrinogenolysis, a process that degrades fibrinogen at a variety of Arg-Lys bonds, thus impairing fibrinogen clotting in the bloodstream of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of transmission of nerve impulse in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of the transmission of nerve impulses in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of voltage-gated sodium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of ion channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant change in the activity of a voltage-gated sodium channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of voltage-gated sodium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of voltage-gated sodium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant stopping, prevention or reduction of the activity of a voltage-gated sodium channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of voltage-gated sodium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of voltage-gated sodium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant activation or increase in the activity of the activity of a voltage-gated sodium channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of blood pressure in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of the force with which blood travels through the circulatory system of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of blood pressure in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of blood pressure in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant increase of the force with which blood travels through the circulatory system of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of blood pressure in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of blood pressure in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant decrease of the force with which blood travels through the circulatory system of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of signal transduction in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of signal transduction in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of signal transduction in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of signal transduction in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant positive regulation of signal transduction in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of receptor activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of receptor activity in of the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of glucagon-like peptide receptor 1 activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of receptor activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of glucagon-like peptide receptor 1 activity in of the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of G-protein coupled receptor activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of receptor activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of G-protein coupled receptor activity in of the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of G-protein coupled receptor activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of G-protein coupled receptor activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant positive regulation of G-protein coupled receptor activity in of the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of glucagon-like peptide receptor 1 activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of glucagon-like peptide receptor 1 activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant positive regulation of glucagon-like peptide receptor 1 activity in of the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of receptor activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of the activity of a vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant positive regulation of the activity of a vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in muscle damage in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with resultant muscle damage in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in myocyte killing in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in muscle damage in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, killing heart myocytes and ultimately resulting in muscle damage in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in damage of muscle extracellular matrix in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in muscle damage in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, damaging the extracellular matrix of muscle cells and ultimately resulting in muscle necrosis in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of apoptotic process in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of apoptosis in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in depletion of circulating fibrinogen in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in impairment of hemostasis in other organism
definition: The process which begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a reduction in the quantity of fibrinogen found in the bloodstream of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in zymogen activation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: The process which begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the proteolytic processing of an inactive enzyme to an active form.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in plasminogen activation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in fibrinolysis in other organism
definition: The process which begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the activation of plasminogen into plasmin in the bitten organism. This process includes cleavage at an internal Arg-Val site to form an N-terminal A-chain and C-terminal B-chain held together by a disulfide bond, and can include further proteolytic cleavage events to remove the preactivation peptide.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in vasodilation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in negative regulation of blood pressure in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with resultant vasodilation of blood vessels, usually causing a reduction in blood pressure, in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of heart rate of other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the negative regulation of the heart rate of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of voltage-gated potassium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of ion channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant change in the activity of a voltage-gated potassium channel in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of ion channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant change in the activity of an ion channel in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of voltage-gated potassium channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of voltage-gated potassium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant negative regulation of the activity of a voltage-gated potassium channel in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in slowing of activation kinetics of voltage-gated potassium channel in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in negative regulation of voltage-gated potassium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant slowing of the activation kinetics of the activity of a voltage-gated potassium channel in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in occlusion of the pore of voltage-gated potassium channel in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in negative regulation of voltage-gated potassium channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant blocking of a voltage-gated potassium channel, inhibiting the pore's activity, in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of cell migration in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the modulation of cell migration in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of cell migration in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of cell migration in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the negative regulation of cell migration in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of cell migration in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of cell migration in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the positive regulation of cell migration in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, classical pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the regulation of complement activation via the classical pathway of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of complement activation, classical pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, classical pathway in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the negative regulation of complement activation via the classical pathway of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of complement activation, classical pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, classical pathway in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the positive regulation of complement activation via the classical pathway of the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, lectin pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of complement activation via the lectin pathway in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of complement activation, lectin pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, lectin pathway in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant negative regulation of complement activation via the lectin pathway in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of complement activation, lectin pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, lectin pathway in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant positive regulation of complement activation via the lectin pathway in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, alternative pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of complement activation via the alternative pathway in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of complement activation, alternative pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, alternative pathway in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant positive regulation of complement activation via the alternative pathway in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of complement activation, alternative pathway in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation, alternative pathway in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant negative regulation of complement activation via the alternative pathway in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of complement activation in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the resultant modulation of complement activation in the bitten/stung organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in cytolysis in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with cytolysis in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

multi-organism reproductive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: reproductive behavior
subclass of: multi-organism behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism that is associated with reproduction involving another organism of the same or different species.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of acid-sensing ion channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of ion channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant change in the activity of an acid-sensing ion channel (ASIC) in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of acid-sensing ion channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of acid-sensing ion channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant positive regulation in the activity of an acid-sensing ion channel (ASIC) in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of acid-sensing ion channel activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of acid-sensing ion channel activity in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with a resultant negative regulation in the activity of an acid-sensing ion channel (ASIC) in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in negative regulation of sensory perception of pain in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modulation of sensory perception of pain in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the inhibition of the sensory perception of pain in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in modulation of sensory perception of pain in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the modulation of the sensory perception of pain in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

post-mating behavior
type: Class
subclass of: reproductive behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism following mating.
imported from: go.owl

male courtship behavior, veined wing generated song production
type: Class
subclass of: male courtship behavior
definition: The process during wing vibration where the male insect produces a species-specific acoustic signal called a love song.
imported from: go.owl

negative regulation of female receptivity, post-mating
type: Class
subclass of: negative regulation of female receptivity
subclass of: regulation of female receptivity, post-mating
definition: Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the receptiveness of a female to male advances subsequent to mating.
imported from: go.owl

locomotor rhythm
type: Class
subclass of: locomotory behavior
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: The rhythm of the locomotor activity of an organism during its 24 hour activity cycle.
imported from: go.owl

regulation of female receptivity
type: Class
subclass of: female mating behavior
definition: Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the willingness or readiness of a female to receive male advances.
imported from: go.owl

positive regulation of female receptivity
type: Class
subclass of: regulation of female receptivity
definition: Any process that activates or increases the receptiveness of a female to male advances.
imported from: go.owl

regulation of female receptivity, post-mating
type: Class
subclass of: regulation of female receptivity
definition: Any process that modulates the receptiveness of a female to male advances subsequent to mating.
imported from: go.owl

positive regulation of female receptivity, post-mating
type: Class
subclass of: positive regulation of female receptivity
subclass of: regulation of female receptivity, post-mating
definition: Any process that increases the receptiveness of a female to male advances subsequent to mating.
imported from: go.owl

nonassociative learning
type: Class
subclass of: learning
definition: A simple form of learning whereby the repeated presence of a stimulus leads to a change in the probability or strength of the response to that stimulus. There is no association of one type of stimulus with another, rather it is a generalized response to the environment.
imported from: go.owl

habituation
type: Class
subclass of: nonassociative learning
definition: A decrease in a behavioral response to a repeated stimulus. This is exemplified by the failure of a person to show a startle response to a loud noise that has been repeatedly presented.
imported from: go.owl

sensitization
type: Class
subclass of: nonassociative learning
definition: An increased in a behavioral response to a repeated stimulus. For example, a shock to the tail of the marine snail Aplysia, to which the snail responds by withdrawing its gill, will result in increased gill withdrawal the next time the skin is touched.
imported from: go.owl

mating behavior, sex discrimination
type: Class
subclass of: mating behavior
definition: The behavior of individuals for the purpose of discriminating between the sexes, for the purpose of finding a suitable mating partner.
imported from: go.owl

male courtship behavior, veined wing extension
type: Class
subclass of: male courtship behavior
definition: The process during courtship where the male insect extends his wings. An example of this process is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to cocaine
type: Class
subclass of: adult behavior
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behavior of an organism as a result of a cocaine stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to ethanol
type: Class
subclass of: adult behavior
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behavior of an organism as a result of an ethanol stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to ether
type: Class
subclass of: adult behavior
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behavior of an organism as a result of an ether stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to pain
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behavior of an organism as a result of a pain stimulus. Pain stimuli cause activation of nociceptors, peripheral receptors for pain, include receptors which are sensitive to painful mechanical stimuli, extreme heat or cold, and chemical stimuli.
imported from: go.owl

circadian behavior
type: Class
subclass of: rhythmic behavior
definition: The specific behavior of an organism that recurs with a regularity of approximately 24 hours.
imported from: go.owl

circadian sleep/wake cycle, sleep
type: Class
subclass of: circadian sleep/wake cycle process
definition: The part of the circadian sleep/wake cycle where the organism is asleep.
imported from: go.owl

multi-organism behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Any process in which an organism has a behavioral effect on another organism of the same or different species.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to nutrient
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behavior of an organism as a result of a nutrient stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

general adaptation syndrome, behavioral process
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The set of behavioral processes that occur as part of the general adaptation syndrome, the response of the body to a strong, stressful stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

male mating behavior
type: Class
subclass of: mating behavior
definition: The specific behavior of a male organism that is associated with reproduction.
imported from: go.owl

female mating behavior
type: Class
subclass of: mating behavior
definition: The specific behavior of a female organism that is associated with reproduction.
imported from: go.owl

crying behavior
type: Class
equivalent class: crying
subclass of: behavior
definition: The behavior in which an organism sheds tears, often accompanied by non-verbal vocalizations and in response to external or internal stimuli.
imported from: go.owl

post-mating oviposition
type: Class
subclass of: oviposition
subclass of: post-mating behavior
definition: The deposition of eggs, either fertilized or not, upon a surface or into a medium, following mating.
imported from: go.owl

parental behavior
type: Class
subclass of: reproductive behavior
definition: A reproductive behavior in which a parent cares for and rears offspring.
imported from: go.owl

oral incubation
type: Class
subclass of: parental behavior
definition: A parental behavior in which fertilized eggs are taken into the mouth and held until hatching.
imported from: go.owl

foraging behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: Behavior by which an organism locates food.
imported from: go.owl

adult foraging behavior
type: Class
subclass of: foraging behavior
definition: Behavior by which an adult locates food.
imported from: go.owl

foraging behavior by probing substrate
type: Class
subclass of: foraging behavior
definition: Foraging behavior in which an anatomical part of the organism is inserted into the substrate to locate food.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to chemical pain
type: Class
subclass of: chemosensory behavior
subclass of: behavioral response to pain
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behaviour of an organism as a result of a chemical pain stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to acetic acid induced pain
type: Class
subclass of: behavioral response to chemical pain
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behaviour of an organism as a result of an acetic acid pain stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

behavioral response to formalin induced pain
type: Class
subclass of: behavioral response to chemical pain
definition: Any process that results in a change in the behaviour of an organism as a result of a formalin pain stimulus.
imported from: go.owl

motor learning
type: Class
subclass of: learning
definition: Any process in which an organism acquires a novel neuromuscular action or movement as the result of experience.
imported from: go.owl

motor behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The specific neuromuscular movement of a single organism in response to external or internal stimuli.
imported from: go.owl

vocalization behavior
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: The behavior in which an organism produces sounds by a mechanism involving its respiratory system.
imported from: go.owl

optomotor response
type: Class
subclass of: optokinetic behavior
definition: Eye, head or whole body movements that help to compensate movements of the environment in order to stabilize its image on the retina. In the case of whole body movements, these motor actions may also stabilize a locomotor course in response to some disturbance. Examples include: the optokinetic reflex, which allows human eyes to follow objects in motion while the head remains stationary reflex; the optomotor responses of flying insects and swimming fish.
imported from: go.owl

medium-term memory
type: Class
subclass of: memory
definition: The memory process that deals with the storage, retrieval and modification of information received at a time ago that is intermediate between that of short and long term memory (30min - 7hrs in Drosophila melanogaster).
imported from: go.owl

walking behavior
type: Class
subclass of: locomotory behavior
definition: The behavior of an organism relating to the progression of that organism along the ground by the process of lifting and setting down each leg.
imported from: go.owl

dishabituation
type: Class
subclass of: nonassociative learning
definition: The temporary recovery of response to a stimulus when a novel stimulus is added.
imported from: go.owl

innate vocalization behavior
type: Class
subclass of: vocalization behavior
definition: A vocalisation behavior that is innate, i.e. that does not need to be learned in order to occur.
imported from: go.owl

learned vocalization behavior
type: Class
subclass of: vocalization behavior
subclass of: learned vocalization behavior or vocal learning
definition: A vocalization behavior that is the result of learning.
imported from: go.owl

imitative learning
type: Class
subclass of: observational learning
definition: Learning in which new behaviors are acquired through imitation.
imported from: go.owl

observational learning
type: Class
subclass of: learning
definition: Learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others.
imported from: go.owl

learned vocalization behavior or vocal learning
type: Class
subclass of: learning or memory
definition: Vocalisation behavior that is the result of learning, or the process by which new vocalizations are learned.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in positive regulation of argininosuccinate synthase activity in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in modification of morphology or physiology of other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with the activation of the cytosolic argininosuccinate synthase in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

envenomation resulting in hemolysis in other organism
type: Class
subclass of: envenomation resulting in cytolysis in other organism
definition: A process that begins with venom being forced into an organism by the bite or sting of another organism, and ends with hemolysis in the bitten organism.
imported from: go.owl

conditioned place preference
type: Class
subclass of: associative learning
definition: The associative learning process by which an animal learns and remembers an association between a neutral, unchanging environment and a putatively rewarding, internal state produced by a xenobiotic or drug.
imported from: go.owl

data item
type: Class
subclass of: information content entity
editor preferred term: data item

information content entity
type: Class
subclass of: generically dependent continuant
editor preferred term: information content entity

curation status specification
type: Class
equivalent class: Class
  one of: example to be eventually removed
  one of: metadata complete
  one of: organizational term
  one of: ready for release
  one of: metadata incomplete
  one of: uncurated
  one of: pending final vetting
  one of: to be replaced with external ontology term
  one of: requires discussion
subclass of: data about an ontology part
editor preferred term: curation status specification
has curation status: pending final vetting
definition: The curation status of the term. The allowed values come from an enumerated list of predefined terms. See the specification of these instances for more detailed definitions of each enumerated value.
editor note: Better to represent curation as a process with parts and then relate labels to that process (in IAO meeting)
term editor: PERSON:Bill Bug
definition source: GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
definition source: OBI_0000266

data about an ontology part
type: Class
subclass of: data item
editor preferred term: data about an ontology part
definition: Data about an ontology part is a data item about a part of an ontology, for example a term
definition: data about an ontology part is a data item about a part of an ontology, for example a term
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg

obsolescence reason specification
type: Class
equivalent class: Class
  one of: failed exploratory term
  one of: placeholder removed
  one of: terms merged
  one of: term imported
  one of: term split
equivalent class: Class
  one of: failed exploratory term
  one of: placeholder removed
  one of: terms merged
  one of: term imported
  one of: term split
  one of: out of scope
subclass of: data about an ontology part
editor preferred term: obsolescence reason specification
has curation status: pending final vetting
definition: The reason for which a term has been deprecated. The allowed values come from an enumerated list of predefined terms. See the specification of these instances for more detailed definitions of each enumerated value.
editor note: The creation of this class has been inspired in part by Werner Ceusters' paper, Applying evolutionary terminology auditing to the Gene Ontology.
term editor: PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
term editor: PERSON: Melanie Courtot

denotator type
type: Class
equivalent class: Class
  one of: universal
  one of: defined class
  one of: named class expression
subclass of: data about an ontology part
editor preferred term: denotator type
example of usage: The Basic Formal Ontology ontology makes a distinction between Universals and defined classes, where the formal are "natural kinds" and the latter arbitrary collections of entities.
definition: A denotator type indicates how a term should be interpreted from an ontological perspective.
term editor: Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters

ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: data about an ontology part
editor preferred term: ontology module
editor note: I have placed this under 'data about an ontology part', but this can be discussed. I think this is OK if 'part' is interpreted reflexively, as an ontology module is the whole ontology rather than part of it.
alternative label: ontology file
curator note: This class and it's subclasses are applied to OWL ontologies. Using an rdf:type triple will result in problems with OWL-DL. I propose that dcterms:type is instead used to connect an ontology URI with a class from this hierarchy. The class hierarchy is not disjoint, so multiple assertions can be made about a single ontology.
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:55:03Z

base ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module
editor preferred term: base ontology module
definition: An ontology module that comprises only of asserted axioms local to the ontology, excludes import directives, and excludes axioms or declarations from external ontologies.
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:55:30Z

editors ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module
editor preferred term: editors ontology module
definition: An ontology module that is intended to be directly edited, typically managed in source control, and typically not intended for direct consumption by end-users.
alternative label: source ontology module
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:55:47Z

main release ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module
editor preferred term: main release ontology module
definition: An ontology module that is intended to be the primary release product and the one consumed by the majority of tools.
editor note: TODO: Add logical axioms that state that a main release ontology module is derived from (directly or indirectly) an editors module
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:56:13Z

bridge ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module
editor preferred term: bridge ontology module
definition: An ontology module that consists entirely of axioms that connect or bridge two distinct ontology modules. For example, the Uberon-to-ZFA bridge module.
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:56:23Z

import ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: subset ontology module
editor preferred term: import ontology module
definition: A subset ontology module that is intended to be imported from another ontology.
editor note: TODO: add axioms that indicate this is the output of a module extraction process.
alternative label: import file
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:56:47Z

subset ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module
editor preferred term: subset ontology module
definition: An ontology module that is extracted from a main ontology module and includes only a subset of entities or axioms.
alternative label: ontology slim
alternative label: subset ontology
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:58:11Z

curation subset ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: subset ontology module
editor preferred term: curation subset ontology module
definition: A subset ontology that is intended as a whitelist for curators using the ontology. Such a subset will exclude classes that curators should not use for curation.
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:58:38Z

analysis subset ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: subset ontology module
editor preferred term: analysis ontology module
definition: An ontology module that is intended for usage in analysis or discovery applications.
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:58:49Z

single layer subset ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: subset ontology module
editor preferred term: single layer ontology module
definition: A subset ontology that is largely comprised of a single layer or strata in an ontology class hierarchy. The purpose is typically for rolling up for visualization. The classes in the layer need not be disjoint.
alternative label: ribbon subset
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:59:19Z

exclusion subset ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: subset ontology module
editor preferred term: exclusion subset ontology module
definition: A subset of an ontology that is intended to be excluded for some purpose. For example, a blacklist of classes.
alternative label: antislim
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T20:59:57Z

external import ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: import ontology module
editor preferred term: external import ontology module
definition: An imported ontology module that is derived from an external ontology. Derivation methods include the OWLAPI SLME approach.
alternative label: external import
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T21:00:14Z

species subset ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: subset ontology module
editor preferred term: species subset ontology module
definition: A subset ontology that is crafted to either include or exclude a taxonomic grouping of species.
alternative label: taxon subset
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T21:14:16Z

reasoned ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module
editor preferred term: reasoned ontology module
definition: An ontology module that contains axioms generated by a reasoner. The generated axioms are typically direct SubClassOf axioms, but other possibilities are available.
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T21:20:33Z

generated ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module
editor preferred term: generated ontology module
definition: An ontology module that is automatically generated, for example via a SPARQL query or via template and a CSV.
editor note: TODO: Add axioms (using PROV-O?) that indicate this is the output-of some reasoning process
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T21:21:12Z

template generated ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: generated ontology module
editor preferred term: template generated ontology module
definition: An ontology module that is automatically generated from a template specification and fillers for slots in that template.
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T21:21:21Z

taxonomic bridge ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: bridge ontology module
editor preferred term: taxonomic bridge ontology module
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-20T21:28:15Z

ontology module subsetted by expressivity
type: Class
subclass of: subset ontology module
editor preferred term: ontology module subsetted by expressivity
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-22T04:15:54Z

obo basic subset ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module subsetted by expressivity
editor preferred term: obo basic subset ontology module
definition: A subset ontology that is designed for basic applications to continue to make certain simplifying assumptions; many of these simplifying assumptions were based on the initial version of the Gene Ontology, and have become enshrined in many popular and useful tools such as term enrichment tools. Examples of such assumptions include: traversing the ontology graph ignoring relationship types using a naive algorithm will not lead to cycles (i.e. the ontology is a DAG); every referenced term is declared in the ontology (i.e. there are no dangling clauses). An ontology is OBO Basic if and only if it has the following characteristics: DAG Unidirectional No Dangling Clauses Fully Asserted Fully Labeled No equivalence axioms Singly labeled edges No qualifier lists No disjointness axioms No owl-axioms header No imports
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-22T04:16:10Z

ontology module subsetted by OWL profile
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module subsetted by expressivity
editor preferred term: ontology module subsetted by OWL profile
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-22T04:16:28Z

EL++ ontology module
type: Class
subclass of: ontology module subsetted by OWL profile
editor preferred term: EL++ ontology module
created by: cjm
creation date: 2018-05-22T04:16:48Z

emotion process
type: Class
subclass of: affective process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: hasAgent
  some values from: extended organism
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: hasPart
  some values from: emotional-relevance appraisal process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: hasPart
  some values from: physiological process involved in an emotion
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: hasPart
  some values from: emotional behavioural process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: hasPart
  some values from: subjective affective feeling
definition: An affective process that is a synchronized aggregate of constituent mental processes including an appraisal process, which is valenced, has an object, and gives rise to an action tendency.
synonym: occurrent emotion
synonym: short-term emotion
comment: Emotion processes are distinguished from other affective processes (e.g., mood) by having an object. Even if an emotion is experienced due to physiological reasons, they would be felt as being about something or someone. For instance, a person might be angry at a situation that they would normally not be angry at, because they are hungry. However, that person would still be angry at a specific situation.
comment: There is no rigid sequence of the entities that are part of the emotion process (e.g., an appraisal process does not necessarily precede a physiological process part of the emotion process).
comment: Valence refers to the 'the subjective value of an event, object, person, or other entity in the life space of the individual' (https://dictionary.apa.org/valence). Valence ranges from negative to positive.

emotional-relevance appraisal process
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: emotion process
definition: A mental process that gives rise to an appraisal.
synonym: appraising

physiological process involved in an emotion
type: Class
subclass of: bodily process
definition: A bodily process that encompasses all the neurophysiological changes accompanying an emotion, which take place in the central nervous system (CNS), neuro-endocrine system (NES) and autonomous nervous system (ANS).
alternative label: physiological response to emotion process

emotional behavioural process
type: Class
subclass of: behavior
definition: An emotional behavioural process is the behaviour of the organism in response to the appraisal, which includes the characteristic facial expressions for particular emotion types.
comment: This branch is still very much under construction and will be worked on in collaboration with the Behaviour Ontology (George Gkoutos).

emotional-relevance appraisal
type: Class
subclass of: cognitive representation
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: isOutputOf
  some values from: emotional-relevance appraisal process
definition: A cognitive representation of the emotional relevance of an object or event to the organism.
comment: Appraisals are a part of emotion processes, representing how a triggering stimulus is relevant to the self. Appraisal captures the ‘aboutness’ of an emotion process. For example, a stimulus such as an image of a tiger can produce different emotion processes depending on how the relevance of this stimulus is evaluated. If the image of a tiger was on TV, this would likely not be evaluated as dangerous. However, an image of a tiger two meters away from a person would be relevant to a person in terms of its dangerousness. Therefore, an appraisal of the dangerouness of the tiger would be part of the emotion process 'fear'.
comment: There is no rigid sequence of the entities that are part of the emotion process -- an appraisal does not necessarily precede a physiological process part of the emotion process.

subjective affective feeling
type: Class
subclass of: affective process
definition: An affective process that involves the experience of internal or external sensory stimuli.
synonym: affective consciousness
has alternative id: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000202
comment: As a subclass of 'affective process', subjective affective feelings have valence. Valence refers to the 'the subjective value of an event, object, person, or other entity in the life space of the individual' (https://dictionary.apa.org/valence). Valence ranges from negative to positive.
comment: Bodily sensations and the experiences of emotions (e.g., feeling calm) would both qualify as examples of 'subjective affective feeling'.
comment: Excluded the following subjective feelings which appear on the GRID questionnaire since they seem debatable to what extent they are really *feelings* and to what extent they are actually *evaluations* or other things: -- felt submissive/dominant -- felt powerless/powerful
comment: Subjective affective feeling can have greater or weaker physiological or mental components. The bodily processes that are experienced will usually involve some mental process.

emotional action tendency
type: Class
subclass of: bodily disposition
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: inheresIn
  some values from: extended organism
definition: A bodily disposition to behaviour that inheres in an organism by virtue of the physical changes brought about by an emotion process.
comment: Emotional action tendency involves dispositions that proceed a behavior relating to emotions. For example, fight or flight action tendencies influence a person's behaviour in reponse to a threat.

anger
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: Class
    intersection of: emotional-relevance appraisal process
    intersection of: Restriction
      on property: hasOutput
      some values from: appraisal as unjust treatment
definition: Anger is a negative emotion, characterised by feelings of unpleasantness and high arousal, in the form of antagonistic feelings and action tendencies. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: colère @fr
synonym: ira @es
synonym: wut @de
tag display synonym: angry

irritation
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: An unpleasant emotion closely related to anger but lower in intensity and without the moral dimension of blame and seriousness that is implicated in anger. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: irritación @es
synonym: irritation @fr
synonym: Ärger @de
tag display synonym: irritated

annoyance
type: Class
subclass of: anger
definition: A negative emotion that is a mild form of anger.
tag display synonym: annoyed
label: Verärgerung @de
label: la gêne @fr

fury
type: Class
subclass of: anger
definition: An intensely negative emotion that is a very strong form of anger.
tag display synonym: furious
label: Wut @de
label: fureur @fr

rage
type: Class
subclass of: anger
definition: A negative emotion that is a strong form of anger.
tag display synonym: enraged
label: Wut @de

aggression
type: Class
subclass of: emotional behavioural process
definition: Any behaviour that is intended to harm another person who wants to avoid the harm. [Source: OCEAS]

grief
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: Grief is an intense negative emotion following a bereavement, i.e. the loss of a significant person through that person's death. [Source: OCEAS]
tag display synonym: grieving
label: Trauer @de
label: deuil @fr

violence
type: Class
subclass of: aggression
definition: Violence is aggression that has extreme physical harm as its goal. [Source: OCEAS]

contempt
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion generally elicited by the negative evaluation of others and their actions. Usually elicited by violations of community codes. Closely related to anger and disgust. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: desprecio @es
synonym: mépris @fr
synonym: verachtung @de
tag display synonym: contemptuous

disgust
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion that is characterised by a need to get rid of, or distance oneself from, a stimulus that is appraised as repulsing.
synonym: asco @es
synonym: dégoût @fr
synonym: ekel @de
tag display synonym: disgusted
comment: Disgust is thought to have evolved to guard the body against dangerous foods and microbial infections. This basic physiological disgust has also culturally evolved to incorporate both moral and interpersonal disgust which protect the self from social threats.

core disgust
type: Class
subclass of: disgust
definition: Disgust elicited by "contaminated" food substances: rotten food, culturally variable "bad" food, certain animals associated with rotten food (maggots, rats), and every body product except tears. [Source: OCEAS]

animal-nature disgust
type: Class
subclass of: disgust
definition: Disgust elicited by poor hygiene, inappropriate sex, gore or violations of bodily boundaries, and death or the odor of decay. [Source: OCEAS]

interpersonal disgust
type: Class
subclass of: disgust
definition: Disgust elicited by contact with others, especially contact with strangers or other individuals or groups we are averse to. [Source: OCEAS]

moral disgust
type: Class
subclass of: disgust
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: Class
    intersection of: emotional-relevance appraisal process
    intersection of: Restriction
      on property: hasOutput
      some values from: appraisal as not congruent with ideals
definition: Disgust elicited by some kinds of especially egregious moral violations. [Source: OCEAS]

hate
type: Class
subclass of: emotion disposition
definition: A strong, negatively valenced emotion directed against a whole person for who or what they are. Often directed at whole groups based on religion, ethnicity, or race. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: haine @fr
synonym: hass @de
synonym: odio @es
tag display synonym: hateful
comment: The linguistic use of the verb 'hate' in English is ambiguous between registering any kind of aversion (e.g. in the sentence 'I hate spinach'), and the much stronger meaning which is associated with descriptions of the emotion hatred. [Source: OCEAS]

jealousy
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion aroused when a person feels threatened by a rival in his or her relationship with another individual, in particular an intimate partner. Involves feelings of threat, fear, suspicion, distrust, anxiety, anger, betrayal, and rejection. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: celos @es
synonym: eifersucht @de
synonym: jalousie @fr
tag display synonym: jealous

fear
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: Class
    intersection of: emotional-relevance appraisal process
    intersection of: Restriction
      on property: hasOutput
      some values from: appraisal as dangerous
definition: A negative emotion that is aversive and characterised by feelings of threat and impending doom, and by an urge to get out of the situation.
synonym: angst @de
synonym: miedo @es
synonym: peur @fr
tag display synonym: afraid
comment: Distinguished from anxiety since it usually has sudden onset and offset. Anxiety is often gradual and long-lasting and is triggered by a distal threat.

terror
type: Class
subclass of: fear
definition: An extremely negative emotion that is an overwhelmingly strong fear.
tag display synonym: terrified
label: Terror @de
label: la terreur @fr

anxiety
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion that is aversive and provoked by the prospect of distal threat.
synonym: ansiedad @es
synonym: anxiété @fr
synonym: besorgnis @de
tag display synonym: anxious
comment: Distinguished from fear since it is triggered by a distal threat whereas fear is triggered by an immediate threat. Often gradual and long-lasting, whereas fear usually has sudden onset and offset. [Source: OCEAS]
comment: Experiencing 'anxious mood' can give rise to 'anxiety'. An 'anxious mood' does not have an object, but involves generalised feeling of anxiety that a person experiences. In contrast, 'anxiety' will be about something, even if this object is not well-specified. The term 'distal' can refer to future threats or geographically distant threats.

stress (emotion)
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion in response to a stressful elicitor. May be acute or chronic. Associated with health implications, such as impaired resistance to infectious diseases. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: estrés @es
synonym: stress @de
tag display synonym: stressed

despair
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative, high intensity emotion characterised by loss of hope and loss of interest. Associated with action tendencies of harm to self or others. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: desesperación @es
synonym: désespoir @fr
synonym: verzweiflung @de
tag display synonym: despairing

crying
type: Class
subclass of: emotional behavioural process
definition: A multimodal behaviour consisting of tears, non-verbal vocalisations (wails, sobs), and facial expressions of distress. [Source: OCEAS]
comment: Not sure whether this should be seen as a synonym for 'having tears in the eyes' -- there probably need to be different degrees of crying.

surprise
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: Class
    intersection of: emotional-relevance appraisal process
    intersection of: Restriction
      on property: hasOutput
      some values from: appraisal as not expected
definition: An emotion caused by encountering unexpected events.
synonym: sorpresa @es
synonym: surprise @fr
synonym: Überraschung @de
tag display synonym: surprised
comment: Surprise may be experienced as negative if the surprising event is evaluated as negative, or positive if the surprising event is evaluated as positive.

interest
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: Interest is a positive emotion which motivates learning, exploration and curiosity. Feelings of interest are associated with the novelty and complexity of stimuli. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: interesse @de
synonym: interés @es
synonym: intérêt @fr
tag display synonym: interested

joy
type: Class
subclass of: happiness
definition: A pleasant, positive emotion which arises in safe and familiar circumstances, when people have made progress towards important personal goals, especially when the progress is better than expected. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: freude @de
synonym: gozo @es
synonym: joie @fr
tag display synonym: joyful

pleasure (emotion)
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: Class
    intersection of: emotional-relevance appraisal process
    intersection of: Restriction
      on property: hasOutput
      some values from: appraisal as pleasant
definition: A positive emotion which is sought out and is associated with happiness and satisfaction.
alternative label: enjoyment
synonym: placer @es
synonym: plaisir @fr
synonym: vergnügen @de
tag display synonym: pleased

sensory pleasure
type: Class
subclass of: pleasure (emotion)
definition: Pleasure in smell, touch, sight, sound and taste. [Source: OCEAS]
tag display synonym: sensory pleasure

mastery pleasure
type: Class
subclass of: pleasure (emotion)
definition: Pleasure derived from mastery, including the experience of flow. [Source: OCEAS]
tag display synonym: a feeling of mastery

social pleasure
type: Class
subclass of: pleasure (emotion)
definition: Pleasure derived from social contact. [Source: OCEAS]
tag display synonym: social pleasure

aesthetic pleasure
type: Class
subclass of: pleasure (emotion)
tag display synonym: aesthetic pleasure

sexual pleasure
type: Class
subclass of: pleasure (emotion)
definition: Pleasure that is experienced as a result of sexual activities.
tag display synonym: sexual pleasure

pride
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A positive emotion associated with the appraisal of one's positive social worth, a signal that one is likely to be socially accepted. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: fierté @fr
synonym: orgullo @es
synonym: stolz @de
tag display synonym: proud

happiness
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A positive emotion which is experienced in reaction to a positive experience or event. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: bonheur @fr
synonym: felicidad @es
synonym: glück @de
tag display synonym: happy

serenity
type: Class
subclass of: happiness
definition: An emotional state that is positively valenced, calm, peaceful and untroubled.
tag display synonym: serene
label: Gelassenheit @de
label: sérénité @fr

amusement
type: Class
subclass of: happiness
definition: A positive emotion that accompanies appraisal of an object, situation or event as humourous.
tag display synonym: amused
label: Spaß @de
label: divertissement @fr

elation
type: Class
subclass of: happiness
definition: A very positive emotion accompanied by feelings of exhilaration.
tag display synonym: elated
label: Hochgefühl @de

euphoria
type: Class
subclass of: happiness
definition: An intensely positive emotion and strong feeling of excitement.
tag display synonym: euphoric
label: Euphorie @de
label: l'euphorie @fr

contentment
type: Class
subclass of: happiness
definition: A pleasant emotion, which can be defined as a milder form of joy. Associated with physical inactivity ('do nothing' action tendencies). [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: contentement @fr
synonym: satisfacción @es
synonym: zufriedenheit @de
tag display synonym: contented

love
type: Class
subclass of: emotion disposition
definition: A strong emotion associated with feelings of desire, warmth and intimacy for another person. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: amor @es
synonym: amour @fr
synonym: liebe @de
tag display synonym: loving

companionate love
type: Class
subclass of: love
definition: Less intense, longer-lasting love which is characterised by affection, commitment, intimacy and a concern for the welfare of the loved one. [Source: OCEAS]
tag display synonym: compassionately loving

passionate love
type: Class
subclass of: love
definition: A powerful longing for union with the beloved, characterised by a confusion of feelings -- elation and pain, tenderness and sexuality, altruism and jealousy.
tag display synonym: passionately loving

disappointment
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: Disappointment is a negative emotion which is triggered by the disconfirmation of the prospect of a desirable event. [Source: OCEAS]
synonym: Déception @fr
synonym: desilusión @es
synonym: enttäuschung @de
tag display synonym: disappointed

compassion
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: An emotion evoked for a person who is in distress. The conditions for compassion involve perceiving the other as in need, and valuing the other's welfare. Associated with altruistic motivation. [Source: OCEAS] @es
synonym: compasión @es
synonym: compassion @fr
synonym: mitgefühl @de
tag display synonym: compassionate

guilt
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative self-evaluative emotion that occurs when a person brings about a negative outcome by acts of commission or omission that violate internal or external moral standards.
synonym: culpa @es
synonym: culpabilité @fr
synonym: schuld @de
tag display synonym: guilty
comment: Guilt is associated wtih violations of internal or external moral standards. Closely related to embarrassment and shame.

embarrassment
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
tag display synonym: embarrassed
label: Verlegenheit @de
label: l'embarras @fr

shame
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion that is distressing and occurs when one appraises one's behaviour or circumstance as wrong, dishonourable, immodest or indecorous.
synonym: honte @fr
synonym: scham @de
synonym: vengüenza @es
tag display synonym: ashamed

sadness
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion felt when an event is appraised as unpleasant and resulting in loss or failure.
synonym: trauer @de
synonym: tristesse @fr
synonym: tristeza @es
tag display synonym: sad

appraisal of suddenness
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal which represents an evaluation of how suddenly an event occurred.

appraisal of familiarity
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents an evaluation of how familiar an object or event is.

appraisal of predictability
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents an evaluation of how predictable an event was.

appraisal of expectedness
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents an evaluation of whether an event was expected to occur.

appraisal of pleasantness
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents an evaluation of the pleasantness of an object or event.
comment: GRID questionnaire distinguishes between appraisal of pleasantness FOR SELF and appraisal of pleasantness FOR SOME OTHER. So far we have defined appraisal as evaluation of relevance FOR SELF, thus, we only include one appraisal of pleasantness (for the time being), although we may expand this later -- although I suspect that all or most of the appraisal types would have to be so qualified.

appraisal as sudden
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of suddenness
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event occurred suddenly.
tag display synonym: this is sudden

appraisal as not sudden
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of suddenness
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event did not occur suddenly.
tag display synonym: this is not sudden

appraisal as familiar
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of familiarity
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an object or event is familiar.
tag display synonym: this is familiar

appraisal as not familiar
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of familiarity
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an object or event is not familiar.
tag display synonym: this is not familiar

appraisal as predictable
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of predictability
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was easy to predict.
tag display synonym: this is predictable

appraisal as not predictable
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of predictability
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was not easy to predict.
tag display synonym: this is not predictable

appraisal as expected
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of expectedness
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was expected.
tag display synonym: this is expected

appraisal as not expected
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of expectedness
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was not expected.
tag display synonym: this is not expected

appraisal as pleasant
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of pleasantness
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an object or event is pleasant.
tag display synonym: this is pleasant

appraisal as unpleasant
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of pleasantness
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an object or event is unpleasant.
tag display synonym: this is unpleasant

appraisal of goal importance
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents an evaluation of whether an event or object is important to the person's goals or needs.
comment: Like pleasantness, the GRID questionnaire distinguishes between evaluations of goal importance/relevance for SELF and for an OTHER.

evaluation as important to goals
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of goal importance
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that the event or object is important to the person's goals or needs.
tag display synonym: this is important for my goals

evaluation as not important to goals
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of goal importance
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that the event or object is not important to the person's goals or needs.
tag display synonym: this is not important for my goals

appraisal of causal agency
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents an evaluation of who or what caused an event.

appraisal as caused by self
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of causal agency
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was caused by oneself.
tag display synonym: this is being caused by me

appraisal as caused by chance
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of causal agency
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was caused by chance.
tag display synonym: this is being caused by chance

appraisal as caused by an other
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of causal agency
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was caused by another person.
tag display synonym: this is being caused by someone else

feeling good
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling that is positively valenced.
synonym: feeling positive
tag display synonym: good

feeling tired
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of a need for sleep.
tag display synonym: tired

appraisal as caused supernaturally
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of causal agency
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was caused by a supernatural agent (God, the ancestors, ghosts...).
tag display synonym: this is being caused supernaturally

appraisal of causal intent
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents an evaluation of the causal intent of the person who (is evaluated to have) caused an event.

appraisal as deliberate
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of causal intent
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was deliberately (intentionally) caused.
tag display synonym: this is being deliberately caused

appraisal as unintended
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of causal intent
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event was caused unintentionally.
tag display synonym: this is not being deliberately caused

appraisal of desirability of consequences
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of desirability
definition: An appraisal of desirability that represents an evaluation of the desirability of the expected consequences of an event.
comment: Distinguished in GRID questionnaire between FOR SELF and FOR OTHER.

appraisal as desirable consequences
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of desirability of consequences
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that the expected consequences of an event are desirable.
tag display synonym: this has desirable consequences

appraisal as undesirable consequences
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of desirability of consequences
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that the expected consequences of an event are undesirable.
tag display synonym: this has undesirable consequences

appraisal of urgency of response
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents an evaluation of the urgency of responding to an event.

appraisal as urgent response
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of urgency of response
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event requires an urgent (immediate) response.
tag display synonym: a response is needed urgently

appraisal as not urgent response
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of urgency of response
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an event does not require an urgent response.
tag display synonym: a response is needed but not urgently

appraisal of avoidability of consequences
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal which represents a judgement about how avoidable the expected consequences of an event will be.

appraisal as avoidable consequences
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of avoidability of consequences
definition: An appraisal that represents a judgement that the expected consequences of an event are in principle avoidable or modfiable.
tag display synonym: there are consequences but they are avoidable

appraisal as unavoidable consequences
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of avoidability of consequences
definition: An appraisal that represents a judgement that the expected consequences of an event will be difficult to avoid or modify.
tag display synonym: there are consequences and they are unavoidable

appraisal of congruence with ideals
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal which represents a judgement about whether an event is consistent with the person's standards or ideals.
comment: Can also be defined FOR SELF and FOR OTHER, where a special case of OTHER is 'society' (=> a judgement that an event violated laws or socially accepted norms) May want to distinguish violation of 'standards' from that of 'ideals', 'norms' and 'laws'. At the moment they are all lumped together.

appraisal as congruent with ideals
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of congruence with ideals
definition: An appraisal which represents a judgement that an event is consistent with the person's standards or ideals.
tag display synonym: this is in line with my ideals

appraisal as not congruent with ideals
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of congruence with ideals
definition: An appraisal that represents a judgement that an event is inconsistent with a person's standards or ideals.
tag display synonym: this is against my ideals

appraisal of social attention
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal which represents a judgement about the direction and nature of the social attention surrounding an event.

appraisal as being at the centre of attention
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of social attention
definition: An appraisal which represents a judgement that the person is at the centre of the surrounding social attention. (That is, that all other nearby persons are paying attention to him/her.)
tag display synonym: I am at the centre of attention

appraisal as not being at the centre of attention
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of social attention
definition: An appraisal that represents a judgement that a person is not at the centre of the surrounding social attention.
tag display synonym: I am not at the centre of attention

appraisal of justice of treatment
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal which represents an evaluation of whether the person was treated justly or unjustly by another person.

appraisal as just treatment
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of justice of treatment
definition: An appraisal which represents an evaluation that the person was treated justly by another person.
tag display synonym: I am being treated justly

appraisal as unjust treatment
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of justice of treatment
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that the person was treated unjustly by another person. (Injustice.)
tag display synonym: I am being treated unjustly

appraisal of dangerousness
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal which represents an evaluation of how threatening an object or situation is.
comment: Dangerousness or level of threat may refer to physical, emotional or social dangers or threats.

appraisal as dangerous
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of dangerousness
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an object or situation presents a threat to the person.
tag display synonym: this is dangerous

appraisal as not dangerous
type: Class
subclass of: appraisal of dangerousness
definition: An appraisal that represents an evaluation that an object or situation does not present a threat to the person.
tag display synonym: this is not dangerous

appraisal of loss
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents a belief that something or someone that is important to the person has been lost to the person.
tag display synonym: I have irrevocably lost something important
comment: This appraisal category stands alone: appraisal of loss is not a continuum like the others (pleasant---unpleasant; expected---unexpected). Rather it is quite discrete, loss or no loss, and is better defined by WHAT has been lost, or at least, in which relation the thing that has been lost stands to the person experiencing the emotion. Loss of a loved person, loss of the expectation of achieving a hoped for life goal, and loss of a limb are all kinds of loss. While it is tempting not to categorise this as an appraisal at all, it should be noted that the loss does not actually have to occur -- it only has to be believed, judged, or (in other words) appraised to have occurred -- for the emotion to take place.

feeling at ease
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of being at ease, comfortable, relaxed.
tag display synonym: at ease

feeling bad
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling that is negatively valenced.
synonym: feeling negative
tag display synonym: bad

feeling energetic
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of having lots of energy, being energetic.
tag display synonym: energetic

feeling in control
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling that one is in control of oneself, that one is fully the agent of one's behavior.
tag display synonym: in control

feeling restless
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of restlessness, a state of not being calm, of an agitation to do something.
tag display synonym: restless

feeling exhausted
type: Class
subclass of: feeling tired
definition: Feeling tired to an extremely strong degree.
tag display synonym: exhausted

shivering
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

feeling calm
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of being calm, being relaxed, being at peace.
tag display synonym: calm

limb weakening
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

feeling out of control
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of not being in control, not being able to gain agency of one's own behavior.
tag display synonym: out of control
comment: May have an evaluative component as well as a feeling component. Needs discussing.

becoming pale
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

feeling strong
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of strength, capability, energy and capacity to do things.
tag display synonym: strong

feeling weak
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of weakness, lack of energy and/or capability, faintness, absence of strength.
tag display synonym: weak

experiencing a lump in the throat
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

feeling alert
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of being wide awake, alert, having active attention and perception.
tag display synonym: alert

experiencing discomfort in the stomach
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

heart beating at slower rate
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

feeling nervous
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling of being not at ease or agitated.
tag display synonym: nervous
comment: Note that 'feeling nervous' is related to 'anxiety' but is not identical with it. Feeling nervous is the subjective experience of nervousness, while anxiety is a full-blown emotion process. Subjective affective feelings are process parts of emotion processes.

facial expression behaviour
type: Class
subclass of: emotional behavioural process
definition: A behavioural process that involves a change in the expression of the face.

smiling
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
definition: A facial expression behaviour in which the person smiles.

jaw dropping
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
definition: A facial expression behaviour in which the jaw drops.

pressing lips together
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
definition: A facial expression behaviour in which the lips are tightly pressed together.

raising eyebrows
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
definition: A facial expression behaviour in which the eyebrows are raised.

frowning
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
definition: A facial expression behaviour in which the person frowns.

closing eyes
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
definition: A facial expression behaviour in which the eyes are closed.

opening eyes widely
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
definition: A facial expression behaviour in which the eyes are opened widely.

neutral expression
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
definition: A facial expression behaviour which appears very neutral (showing no expression).

emotional bodily movement behaviour
type: Class
subclass of: emotional behavioural process

moving abruptly
type: Class
subclass of: emotional bodily movement behaviour
definition: A bodily movement behaviour which involves abrupt movements.

moving towards people
type: Class
subclass of: emotional bodily movement behaviour
definition: A bodily movement behaviour which involves moving, or leaning, towards people (approach).

moving away from people
type: Class
subclass of: emotional bodily movement behaviour
definition: A bodily movement behaviour which involves moving, or leaning, away from people (avoidance).

staying still
type: Class
subclass of: emotional bodily movement behaviour
definition: A bodily movement behaviour which involves remaining still.

heart beating at faster rate
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

muscles relaxing
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

muscles becoming tense
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

breathing at a more rapid rate
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

breathing at a slower rate
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

temperature rising (experienced as feeling warm)
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

perspiring
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

perspiring (hands)
type: Class
subclass of: perspiring

perspiring (whole body)
type: Class
subclass of: perspiring

experiencing heat in cheeks or chest
type: Class
subclass of: temperature rising (experienced as feeling warm)

experiencing warm sensation in whole body
type: Class
subclass of: temperature rising (experienced as feeling warm)

blushing
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

temperature falling (experienced as feeling cold)
type: Class
subclass of: physiological process involved in an emotion

emotional speaking behaviour
type: Class
subclass of: vocalization behavior
subclass of: emotional behavioural process

speaking loudly
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking with a voice louder than usual.

speaking softly
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking with a voice softer than usual.

speaking with trembling voice
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking with a voice that is hesitant or trembling.

speaking assertively
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking with a voice that is confident and assertive.

not speaking
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Remaining silent, not producing spoken utterances.

speaking a short utterance
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking behaviour in which a short utterance is produced.

speaking a long utterance
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking behaviour in which a long utterance is produced.

speaking with altered speech melody
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking with an altered rhythm or melody of speech relative to the norm for that person.

speaking in a disturbed fashion
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking in a manner which is disturbed relative to what is the norm for that person.

speaking at a faster rate
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking in a manner that is faster than the norm for that person.

speaking at a slower rate
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: Speaking in a manner that is slower than the norm for that person.

panic
type: Class
subclass of: fear
definition: A severe episode of fear with strong associated discomfort and thoughts of impending harm.
tag display synonym: panicked
label: Panik @de
label: panique @fr

boredom
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion that is the appraisal of one's current surroundings and activities as not interesting or stimulating.
tag display synonym: bored
label: Langeweile @de
label: l'ennui @fr

curiosity
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A positive emotion that is an interest and engagement in an object or situation with a desire to know more.
synonym: intrigued
tag display synonym: curious
label: curieux @fr
label: neugierig @de

concern
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion that is a mild form of worry about a particular object or situation.
tag display synonym: concerned
label: betreffen @de
label: concernent @fr

satisfaction
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: Satisfaction is an emotion that is experienced when one's wishes, expectations or needs are fulfilled.

dubious
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion accompanying uncertainty about a judgement or decision.
label: zweifelhaft @de

worry
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion that is about a future or possible object or event that is appraised negatively.
tag display synonym: worried
label: Sorgen @de
label: s'inquiéter @fr

canonical angry facial expression
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional facial expression
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: frowning
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: anger
definition: The canonical facial expression associated with the experience of anger.

confusion
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion that is about a sense of uncertainty or bewilderment within oneself.
tag display synonym: confused
label: Verwirrung @de

canonical emotional facial expression
type: Class
subclass of: facial expression behaviour
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: emotion process
definition: Characteristic facial expressions that are made when a person is undergoing a so-called "basic" emotions. These are canonical, that is, individual facial expressions when undergoing emotions can vary or not change at all. However, research indicates evidence for the existence of characteristic canonical facial expressions that are displayed when experiencing certain emotions even across cultures.

expectant
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A positive emotion that involves the anticipation that something desirable will occur.
synonym: anticipative
label: Erwartung @de
label: anticipation @fr

canonical fearful facial expression
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional facial expression
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: opening eyes widely
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: fear
definition: The canonical facial expression associated with the experience of fear.

hope
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A positive emotion that is a longing for something to happen with an appraisal of its happening as both possible and positive.
tag display synonym: hopeful
label: Hoffnung @de
label: espoir @fr

inspiration (emotion)
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A positive emotion that is associated with a motivation and an idea to do or create something.
tag display synonym: inspired
label: Inspiration @de
label: inspiration @fr

schadenfreude
type: Class
subclass of: pleasure (emotion)
definition: A complex emotion that consists of the experience of pleasure as caused by the misfortune of others.

canonical happy facial expression
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional facial expression
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: smiling
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: happiness
definition: The canonical facial expression associated with the experience of happiness.

canonical disgusted facial expression
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional facial expression
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: disgust
definition: The canonical facial expression associated with the experience of disgust.

canonical sad facial expression
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional facial expression
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: sadness
definition: The canonical facial expression associated with the experience of sadness.

canonical emotional voice utterances
type: Class
subclass of: emotional speaking behaviour
definition: The vocal utterances associated with the characteristic sound of an emotion. Obviously, any particular emotional instance may be associated with a great variety of different types of voice utterances or no voice utterances at all. However, "canonical" or characteristic voice utterances can be associated with core emotions.

canonical angry voice utterance
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional voice utterances
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: speaking loudly
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: anger
definition: Vocal utterances canonically associated with the experience of anger

canonical fearful voice utterance
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional voice utterances
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: fear
definition: Vocal utterances canonically associated with the experience of fear

canonical disgusted voice utterance
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional voice utterances
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: disgust
definition: Voice utterances characteristically associated with the experience of disgust.

canonical happy voice utterance
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional voice utterances
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: happiness
definition: Voice utterance characteristically associated with the experience of happiness.

canonical sad voice utterance
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional voice utterances
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: crying
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: sadness
definition: Voice utterance characteristically associated with the experience of sadness.

canonical surprised voice utterance
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional voice utterances
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: surprise
definition: Voice utterance canonically associated with the experience of surprise

canonical surprised facial expression
type: Class
subclass of: canonical emotional facial expression
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: jaw dropping
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: opening eyes widely
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: surprise
definition: Characteristic facial expression made when a person is undergoing an experience of surprise.

appraisal as being disliked
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents a judgement that one is being disliked

appraisal as being liked
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal that represents a judgement that one is being liked

mood process
type: Class
subclass of: affective process
definition: A mood process is a mental process that involves affect (is valenced), and gives rise to a number of behavioural dispositions, but unlike an emotion has no object. Moods are usually longer-lived than emotion processes, but there are exceptions.
comment: Moods are more difficult to individuate into types than emotions. We may speak of a good mood, a bad mood, or suchlike. We may also speak of being in an angry mood or other moods which take their identity from emotions. These often accompany a heightened disposition to undergo the emotion they are named for.

valence
type: Class
subclass of: process profile
definition: Valence is a process profile of an emotion, mood, or affective bodily feeling (such as pleasure and pain). Valence can be positive or negative, with different strengths in both directions. For example, pleasure is positively valenced while pain is negatively valenced.

affective process
type: Class
equivalent class: Class
  intersection of: mental process
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property:
      inverse of: BFO_0000133
    some values from: valence
subclass of: mental process
definition: A mental process that has positive or negative valence.

anxious mood
type: Class
subclass of: mood process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A mood process that is a generalised feeling of fearfulness and gives rise to a heightened disposition to experience anxiety, fear and other negatively valenced emotions.
comment: Experiencing 'anxious mood' can give rise to 'anxiety'. An 'anxious mood' does not have an object, but involves generalised feeling of anxiety that a person experiences. In contrast, 'anxiety' will be about something, even if this object is not well-specified.

irritable mood
type: Class
subclass of: mood process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A mood process that is a general feeling of annoyance and gives rise to a heightened disposition to anger and other negatively valenced emotions.

cheerful mood
type: Class
subclass of: mood process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A mood process that is is a general feeling of well-being and gives rise to a heightened disposition to happiness, amusement and other positively valenced emotions.

emotion disposition
type: Class
subclass of: disposition
definition: An emotion disposition is a disposition to repeated emotion process individuated by being of the same type and about the same object.
synonym: dispositional emotion
synonym: long-term emotion

enthusiasm
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A positive emotion reflecting energy and passion for something.
tag display synonym: enthusiastic
label: Begeisterung @de
label: enthousiasme @fr

merry mood
type: Class
subclass of: mood process
definition: A mood process that is a general feeling of enjoyment and festivity and gives rise to a heightened disposition to experience happiness, joy and other positively valenced emotions.

feeling of pain
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling in an organism S, involving two integrated levels: (a) activation of the nociceptive system and associated emotion generating brain components of S, and (b) a simultaneous aversive sensory and emotional experience on the part of S, where (b) is phenomenologically similar to the sort of aversive experience involved in pain with concordant tissue damage.
comment: Here `phenomenologically similar' means inter alia: (1) that the experience is `of' or is `targeted towards' some region R of the body of S, so that all pain is in this sense (and however diffusely) localized; (2) that the experience involves a dimension of unpleasantness which -- as is shown by the case of pain asymbolia -- is not necessarily of the sort that involves suffering or aversion on the part of the subject S.

emotional personality trait
type: Class
subclass of: personality trait
definition: An emotional personality trait is a personality trait, a part of an overall personality, which predisposes the individual to repeated occurrences of a characteristic emotional process.

feeling of hunger
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling that involves discomfort and is associated with a need to consume food.

feeling of thirst
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling that involves discomfort and is associated with a need to consume water.

positive valence
type: Class
subclass of: valence
definition: A valence that is pleasant, positive or good.

negative valence
type: Class
subclass of: valence
definition: A valence that is negative, unpleasant or bad.

positive surprise
type: Class
subclass of: surprise
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: Surprise with a positive valence
alternative label: astonishment
alternative label: wonder

negative surprise
type: Class
subclass of: surprise
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: Surprise with a negative valence.

positive emotion
type: Class
equivalent class: Class
  intersection of: emotion process
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property: has occurrent part
    some values from: positive valence
subclass of: emotion process
definition: A positive emotion is an emotion that has a positive valence.

negative emotion
type: Class
equivalent class: Class
  intersection of: emotion process
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property: has occurrent part
    some values from: negative valence
subclass of: emotion process
definition: A negative emotion is an emotion that has a negative valence.

physical pleasure
type: Class
subclass of: feeling good
definition: A feeling good that is located in the body and is strongly positively valenced.
comment: Physical pleasure is not named just 'pleasure' as that has already been used for emotional pleasure.

feeling ticklish
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling

gloomy mood
type: Class
subclass of: mood process
definition: A mood process that is a general feeling of being down, having a negative outlook and gives rise to a heightened disposition to experience negatively valenced emotions.
alternative label: depressed mood
comment: There is a gradient of negative mood valence and subjective level of distress which leads to a clinically significant depressed mood at the negative extreme.
see also: To indicate a clinically confirmed depressed mood episode, use http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOMD_0000013 (depressed mood episode).

regret
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion that occurs when a person wishes they chose or acted differently in the past, due to the consequences of that choice or action being unfavourable.

enjoyment
type: Class
subclass of: happiness
definition: A positive emotion that is about an ongoing experience and reflects that the experience is being appraised as pleasurable.
label: Genuss @de
label: jouissance @fr

excited mood
type: Class
subclass of: mood process
definition: A mood process that is a generalised feeling of enthusiasm, eagerness and energy, and gives rise to a heightened disposition to experience positively valenced emotions.
alternative label: excitement

feeling of desire
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling that involves attraction to an imagined state of affairs.

feeling of want
type: Class
subclass of: feeling of desire
definition: A feeling of desire that involves anticipated pleasure or satisfaction from an imagined state of affairs.

feeling of need
type: Class
subclass of: feeling of desire
definition: A feeling of desire that involves anticipated relief from mental or physical discomfort.

feeling of urge
type: Class
subclass of: subjective affective feeling
definition: A subjective affective feeling that involves a subjective experience of an impulse to engage in a behaviour.

appraisal of desirability
type: Class
subclass of: emotional-relevance appraisal
definition: An emotional-relevance appraisal of the extent to which something is good or beneficial.

mental functioning related anatomical structure
type: Class
subclass of: fiat object part
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has disposition at some time
  some values from: disposition to be agent of mental process
definition: An anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental process.
definition source: http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/10

disposition to be agent of mental process
type: Class
subclass of: disposition
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: disposition of at all times
  some values from: mental functioning related anatomical structure

remembering
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: (for the case of remembering X, where X is an event in the organism’s history) a mental process that is a) about X, and b) made possible by the physical traces left by a causal process involving the organism during the event X
alternative label: act of remembering

alertness
type: Class
subclass of: attending
definition: State of active attention by high sensory awareness such as being watchful and prompt to meet danger or emergency, or being quick to perceive and act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alertness
alternative label: state of alertness
prior version: MFOMD_0000176

mental counting
type: Class
subclass of: cognitive process
definition: A cognitive process that involves the mental representation of sequential numbers.

mental calculation
type: Class
subclass of: cognitive process
definition: A cognitive process that involves the manipulation of mental representations of numeric entities in order to compute the outcome of a mathematical function.

judging
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: A mental process during which information is evaluated, the outcome of which is a belief or opinion.
alternative label: act of judging

determining gender
type: Class
subclass of: judging
definition: A judging process during which an opinion about the gender of a person is determined.
definition: A judging that involves forming an opinion about the gender of a person.

cognitive process
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has participant at all times
  some values from: cognitive representation
definition: A mental process that creates, modifies or has as participant some cognitive representation.
see also: GO:0050890, cognition, defined as `The operation of the mind by which an organism becomes aware of objects of thought or perception; it includes the mental activities associated with thinking, learning, and memory.'

determining orientation
type: Class
subclass of: judging
definition: A judging that involves the determination of the orientation of some object.

mathematical problem solving behavior
type: Class
subclass of: problem solving behaviour

visual problem solving behavior
type: Class
subclass of: problem solving behaviour

arousal
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: A mental process that is the psychological and physiological state of being awake and reactive to stimuli.
prior version: MFOMD_0000146

thinking
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: a mental process that involves the manipulation of mental language and/or mental images
alternative label: act of thinking

language problem solving behavior
type: Class
subclass of: problem solving behaviour

imagination
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: A mental process that manipulates mental images and words that go beyond mere memory and thoughts about the objects and entities that the person has encountered, to visualise or consider entities and states of affairs that the person has never encountered and which may not yet exist or obtain in the world. Imagination is the capacity to produce images, ideas and sensations in the mind without any immediate input of the senses.
definition source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination

human being
type: Class
subclass of: extended organism
definition: An extended organism that is a member of the species Homo sapiens.
alternative label: person

consciousness
type: Class
subclass of: process profile
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: realizes
  some values from: intentional modality
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of occurrent
  some values from: Class
    intersection of: mental process
    intersection of: Class
      complement of: consciousness
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has participant at all times
  some values from: intentionality
definition: Consciousness is an inseparable part of some mental processes. It is that part of the mental process that: a) confers a subjective perspective, a phenomenology, an experience of the mental process of which it is a part; and b) intends the object or event that the mental process is about, should such exist; i.e., it confers intentionality on the mental process.
synonym: conscious awareness
comment: Note that while there are different modes of consciousness corresponding to the different senses, the whole of conscious experience at any one time is largely experienced as a unity, that is, as a fused whole. Mental processes which are simultaneously ongoing are separable only in fiat, not in essence.

attending
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: the process whereby relevant aspects of our mental experience are focused on specific targets

perception
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: A mental process which is a) produced by a causal process involving a part of the environment of the organism, and b) is experienced by the organism as being so caused, and c) in which the relevant part of the environment is thereby represented to the organism.
comment: Examples for 'causal processes involving a part of the environment of an organism' that can be perceived are light rays and air vibrations.

mental process
type: Class
subclass of: bodily process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: realizes
  some values from: mental disposition
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: consciousness
definition: A bodily process that occurs in the brain, and that can of itself be conscious, or can give rise to a process that can of itself be conscious or can give rise to behaviour.
comment: A 'mental process' is a subclass of 'bodily process', as mental processes occur within the body, specifically involving the brain.
comment: A bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behavior inducing state.
comment: Examples include thinking, feeling pain, remembering and emotion as occurrent experiences.
comment: Mental processes can varying in the degree to which they involve consciousness.
see also: GO:0050890, cognition, defined as `The operation of the mind by which an organism becomes aware of objects of thought or perception; it includes the mental activities associated with thinking, learning, and memory.'

interpersonal process
type: Class
subclass of: bodily process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has participant at all times
  min qualified cardinality: 2
  on class: human being
definition: A bodily process in which at least two human beings are agents.
definition source: http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/10

agreeableness
type: Class
subclass of: personality trait
definition: A personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm, and considerate.
definition source: Development and Validation of International English Big-Five Mini-Markers. Edmund R. Thomspson. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 45, Issue 6, October 2008. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886908002195
has alternative id: http://www.github.com/no/ontologies/2017/PAO/Agreeableness
comment: Associated adjectives: appreciative, forgiving, generous, kind, sympathetic, and trusting.

interpersonal behavior
type: Class
subclass of: multi-organism behavior
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: interpersonal process
definition: Behavior having interpersonal processes as parts, each involving the same instances of human being.
definition source: http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/10
see also: GO:0051705, multi-organism behaviour, defined as: "Any process in which an organism has a behavioral effect on another organism of the same or different species" (http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/term_details?term=GO:0051705#lineage)

seeing
type: Class
subclass of: perception
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: visual consciousness
definition: Seeing (visual perception) is a mental process that is a) produced by a causal process involving light rays from a part of the environment of the subject being absorbed by photoreceptors in the retina, and b) is experienced by the subject as being so caused, and c) in which the relevant part of the environment is thereby represented to the subject
alternative label: act of seeing
alternative label: visual perception

intelligence
type: Class
subclass of: mental capability
definition: A mental capability realised in processes involving understanding complex ideas, adapting effectively to the environment, learning from experience, engaging in various forms of reasoning, and overcome obstacles through the outcome of thinking processes.

introversion
type: Class
subclass of: personality trait

planning
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: A mental process that involves mentally manipulating representations of steps in an imagined process which has some goal.
alternative label: act of planning
comment: The outcome of this mental process is a plan which has the potential to be followed to bring about the desired outcome.

conscientiousness
type: Class
subclass of: personality trait
definition: A personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as careful, self-disciplined, dependable, vigilant, dutiful, and goal-oriented.
has alternative id: http://www.github.com/no/ontologies/2017/PAO/Conscientiousness
comment: Associated adjectives: efficient, organized, planful, reliable, responsible, and thorough.

irascibility
type: Class
subclass of: emotional personality trait
subclass of: personality trait
definition: A mental disposition to frequent or easily incited outbursts of anger.

representation
type: Class
subclass of: specifically dependent continuant
definition: A dependent continuant which is about a portion of reality.
definition source: http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/10

cognitive representation
type: Class
subclass of: representation
definition: A representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organism.
definition source: http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/10
comment: When a belief is activated, the content of that belief is a cognitive representation. The use of the phrase ‘an anatomical structure in the cognitive system’ in the formal definition means that a specific cognitive representation will depend on parts of the brain, rather than involving the whole brain.

bodily disposition
type: Class
equivalent class: Restriction
  on property: inheres in at all times
  some values from: extended organism
subclass of: disposition
definition: A bodily disposition is a disposition that inheres in some extended organism. Examples are: my disposition to catch a cold when exposed to a virus, my ability to speak the English language.
alternative label: personal disposition
comment: Bodily disposition includes features that can be used in a specific context, such as a person's strength, but not a person's weight. A person has a specific weight independent of the circumstances they are in.
comment: Extended organism refers to an organism and its microbiome (e.g., the bacteria that live in one's digestive system).

mental disposition
type: Class
subclass of: bodily disposition
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: realized in
  all values from: mental process
definition: A mental disposition is a bodily disposition that is realized in a mental process.
comment: 'Mental disposition' is a subclass of 'bodily disposition', as mental dispositions occur in the body.

visual consciousness
type: Class
subclass of: direct consciousness
definition: Visual consciousness is consciousness of a visual stimulus, as experienced through the visual sensory medium as a part of a process of seeing.

auditory consciousness
type: Class
subclass of: direct consciousness
definition: Auditory consciousness is consciousness of an auditory stimulus, as a part of a conscious process of hearing.

tactile consciousness
type: Class
subclass of: direct consciousness
definition: Tactile consciousness is consciousness that is experienced in the tactile sensory medium, through the sensory medium of touch and pressure sensation.

direct consciousness
type: Class
subclass of: consciousness
definition: Direct consciousness is consciousness of phenomenal experience, it is the given experience in consciousness of (for example) sounds, tastes, emotions and bodily feelings.
alternative label: pre-reflexive consciousness

hearing
type: Class
subclass of: perception
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: auditory consciousness
definition: Hearing (auditory perception) is a mental process that is a) produced by a causal process involving sound waves from a part of the environment of the subject being absorbed by detectors in the ear, and b) is experienced by the subject as being so caused, and c) in which the relevant part of the environment is thereby represented to the subject
alternative label: act of hearing
alternative label: auditory perception

affective representation
type: Class
subclass of: cognitive representation
definition: A cognitive representation sustained by an organsim about its own emotions.
definition source: http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/10

communication
type: Class
subclass of: interpersonal process
definition: A communication process is an interpersonal process that involves the transmission of information between two organisms.

belief
type: Class
subclass of: mental disposition
definition: A mental disposition to represent a proposition to be true.
comment: Judging is a mental process that brings a belief into existence. Judging differently may also bring that belief out of existence. An act of believing is just thinking about a belief. Beliefs typically cause us to behave in ways that are characteristic with the content of that belief. However, this is not a necessary feature for the existence of the belief.

preference
type: Class
subclass of: personality trait

capability
type: Class
subclass of: bodily disposition
definition: A bodily disposition whose realization ordinarily brings benefits to an organism or group of organisms, where "ordinarily" means within a typical range or context.
alternative label: personal capability
definition source: https://github.com/NCOR-US/Capabilities/wiki/The-Account-of-Capabilities
comment: Note that, as discussed in https://philpapers.org/archive/MERMC.pdf, both organisms and artifacts can bear capabilities. However, this capability class is just applicable to organismal capabilities (as a subclass of 'bodily disposition') and the definition has been amended from that of the definition source accordingly.
comment: The phrase 'ordinarily brings benefits to an organism or group of organism' is used to explain that capabilities normally provide a benefit. For exampoe, having a musical ability is usually an ability that is positive for a person (e.g., they enjoy playing music, they receive positive feedback about their ability). However, in certain exceptional cases (e.g., a neighbour becoming annoyed with a person playing the piano and expressing this annoyance), the ability might not bring benefits.

musical capability
type: Class
subclass of: capability
definition: A capability that is realised in an activity of producing or interpreting music.

wanting
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: A mental process that involves thinking about a state of affairs that is not yet the case together with a desire for that state of affairs to come about.
alternative label: act of wanting

capability to play piano
type: Class
subclass of: musical capability
definition: A musical capability that is realised in the production of music using a piano.

capability to play violin
type: Class
subclass of: musical capability
definition: A musical capability that is realised in the production of music using a violin.

mental capability
type: Class
subclass of: capability
definition: A personal capability that includes mental processes in its realisation.

capability to read
type: Class
subclass of: linguistic capability
definition: A linguistic capability that is realised by processes in which textual concretisations of linguistic expressions are processed and understood.

linguistic capability
type: Class
subclass of: mental capability
definition: A mental capability that is realised in processes of communication involving language or in expressions of language.

capability to understand language
type: Class
subclass of: linguistic capability
definition: A linguistic capability that is realised in processes in which well-formed expressions in a given language are understood.

capability to speak
type: Class
subclass of: linguistic capability
definition: A linguistic capability that is realised in processes in which well-formed vocal expressions in a given language are produced.

capability to read music
type: Class
subclass of: musical capability
definition: A musical capability that is the ability to interpret the musical instructions represented in a musical score.

tasting
type: Class
subclass of: perception
definition: Taste perception is a mental process which is a) produced by a causal process involving xenobiotic molecules from a part of the environment of the subject binding with specialized sensory cells in the tongue and nasal cavity, and b) is experienced by the subject as being so caused, and c) in which the relevant part of the environment is thereby represented to the subject
alternative label: act of tasting

smelling
type: Class
subclass of: perception
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: olfactory consciousness
definition: Smelling (olfactory perception) is a mental process which is a) produced by a causal process involving xenobiotic molecules from a part of the environment of the subject binding with specialized sensory cells in the nasal cavity, and b) is experienced by the subject as being so caused, and c) in which the relevant part of the environment is thereby represented to the subject
alternative label: act of smelling
alternative label: olfactory perception

touching
type: Class
subclass of: perception
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: tactile consciousness
definition: Touching (tactile perception) is a mental process which is a) produced by a causal process involving pressure on the organism’s skin from a part of the environment of the subject, and b) is experienced by the subject as being so caused, and c) in which the relevant part of the environment is thereby represented to the subject
alternative label: act of touching

thinking with language
type: Class
subclass of: cognitive process
subclass of: thinking
definition: A cognitive process that involves the manipulation of mental language.

attachment
type: Class
subclass of: interpersonal process
definition: Affectional tie that one person or animal forms between himself and another specific one, a tie that binds them together emotionally and endures over time.
prior version: MFOMF_0000177

daydreaming
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: Short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake.
alternative label: act of daydreaming
definition source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daydream
prior version: MFOMD_0000148

vigilance
type: Class
subclass of: attending
definition: The ability to maintain attention and alertness over prolonged periods of time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilance_%28psychology%29
alternative label: state of vigilance
prior version: MFOMD_0000140

orgasm
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: Orgasm is the sudden discharge of accumulated sexual tension during the sexual response cycle, resulting in rhythmic muscular contractions in the pelvic region characterized by sexual pleasure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasm
alternative label: sexual climax
prior version: MFOMD_0000207

libido
type: Class
subclass of: mental process
definition: The psychic energy that drives individuals toward sensual pleasures of all types, especially sexual ones. http://www.apa.org/research/action/glossary.aspx
prior version: MFOMD_0000130

extraversion
type: Class
subclass of: personality trait
definition: A personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as positive, assertive, social, and outgoing.
has alternative id: http://www.github.com/no/ontologies/2017/PAO/Extraversion
comment: Associated Adjectives: active, assertive, energetic, enthusiastic, outgoing, talkative.

neuroticism
type: Class
subclass of: personality trait
definition: A personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as angry, anxious, depressed, unstable, and vulnerable.
has alternative id: http://www.github.com/no/ontologies/2017/PAO/Neuroticism
comment: Associated adjectives: anxious, self-pitying, tense, touchy unstable, and worrying.

openness to experience
type: Class
subclass of: personality trait
definition: A personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as revealing, curiosity, an appreciation of novelty and variety of experiences and ideas, invention, and unpredictability.
has alternative id: http://www.github.com/no/ontologies/2017/PAO/OpennessToExperience
comment: Associated adjectives: artistic, curious, imaginative, insightful, original, and wide interests.

olfactory consciousness
type: Class
subclass of: direct consciousness
definition: Olfactory consciousness is consciousness of an olfactory stimulus (scent), as experienced through the olfactory sensory medium as a part of a process of smelling.

consciousness of self
type: Class
subclass of: higher order consciousness
definition: Consciousness of self is the higher order consciousness that reflexively includes the awareness that the organism that is the subject of the conscious experience exists.
alternative label: consciousness of the existence of the self
alternative label: self-consciousness
alternative label: selfhood
comment: The implication of Descartes' famous "Cogito ergo sum" is that awareness of one's own existence entails that one exists. This is because consciousness creates a perspective, and awareness of this is a self-reflexive perspective of oneself. This is one aspect of intentionality that cannot fail. Intentionality can fail at all levels of content, but not at the level of intending through awareness the existence of the self that is consciously intending.

proprioception
type: Class
subclass of: perception
definition: Proprioception is a mental process which is a) produced by a causal process specialized internal sensory cells in, for example, skin, muscles and joints, and b) by which their location and state of motion and/or balance are represented to the organism, and c) which is experienced by the subject as being so caused

nociception
type: Class
subclass of: perception
definition: Nociception is a mental process which is a) produced by a causal process specialized internal sensory cells in, for example, skin, muscles and joints, and b) by which actual or immanent tissue damage are reported to the organism, and c) which is experienced by the subject as being so caused

a memory
type: Class
subclass of: mental disposition
definition: A memory is a mental disposition that is realized in a process of remembering, i.e. a memory of X is a disposition realized in the process of remembering X.

problem solving behaviour
type: Class
subclass of: behavior

consciousness of time
type: Class
subclass of: higher order consciousness
definition: The subjective experience of time as a coherent process inhabited by oneself as an embodied thinking being
alternative label: time awareness

intentionality
type: Class
subclass of: mental quality
definition: Intentionality is the fundamental quality of conscious mental processes of always having content, of being directed towards, or about something.

bodily quality
type: Class
subclass of: quality
definition: A bodily quality is a quality that inheres in some extended organism.

mental quality
type: Class
subclass of: bodily quality
definition: A mental quality is a bodily quality that inheres in those structures of the extended organism that are essential for mental functioning.

intentional modality
type: Class
subclass of: mental disposition
example of usage: An example of an intentional modality is the capacity to represent objects of intentionality as unfolding in time or being time contingent.
definition: A structural capacity that shapes how an object of intentionality is represented for the subject.
alternative label: intentional mode
alternative label: intentional structure

consciousness of space
type: Class
subclass of: higher order consciousness
definition: The subjective experience of the spatial surroundings one inhabits as an embodied entity.
alternative label: space awareness

consciousness of the body
type: Class
subclass of: higher order consciousness
definition: The subjective experience of being an embodied entity.
alternative label: body awareness

intersubjectivity
type: Class
subclass of: higher order consciousness
definition: The subjective experience of other beings as self-aware entities.

time intentional modality
type: Class
subclass of: intentional modality
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: realized in
  some values from: consciousness of time
definition: The intentional structural capacity to experience lived time.

protention
type: Class
subclass of: time intentional modality
definition: The partial structure of time consciousness that relates to linking and projecting the content of immediate moments to future moments (e.g. how the path of a moving object is intuitively projected).

retention
type: Class
subclass of: time intentional modality
definition: The partial structure of time consciousness that relates to retaining past events in memory and linking them to present events (e.g. how the individual tones in a melody is intuitively linked together to form a whole).

mental imagery
type: Class
subclass of: imagination
definition: A mental process that evokes the representation of the sensory characteristics of objects or events when these are not immediately present to the senses.

spoken communication
type: Class
subclass of: linguistic communication
definition: A spoken communication process is a linguistic communication process that: (a) involves as participant at least two linguistically capable organisms; (b) one of whom produces an utterance that is well-formed in a given spoken language; (c) the other of whom perceives and understands that utterance by virtue of their recognition of the meaning of the utterance through their knowledge of the language.

written communication
type: Class
subclass of: linguistic communication
definition: A written communication process is an interpersonal process that: (a) involves as participant at least two organisms, (b) one of whom produces a message in writing that is well-formed in a given language; (c) the other of whom reads the message and understands it.

linguistic communication
type: Class
subclass of: communication
definition: A linguistic communication process is a communication process in which the information that is communicated is encoded in language.

gestural communication
type: Class
subclass of: non-linguistic communication
definition: A gestural communication process is a communication process in which information is transferred by means of physical movements.

subliminal process
type: Class
subclass of: bodily process
definition: A mental process that involves neuronal activity in response to a sensory stimuli but which is not the subject of consciousness.

non-linguistic communication
type: Class
subclass of: communication
definition: A communication process in which information is transmitted without being encoded in the meaning units of any language.

sign-language communication
type: Class
subclass of: linguistic communication
definition: A linguistic communication in which the meaning units are encoded in a sign language.

facial expression communication
type: Class
subclass of: non-linguistic communication
definition: A non-linguistic communication process that involves the transmission of information by one participant interpreting the facial expressions of another participant.

higher order consciousness
type: Class
subclass of: consciousness
definition: Higher order consciousness is consciousness of one's own mental states, a self-reflexive consciousness of the experience of being conscious, of having mental processes ongoing.

personality
type: Class
subclass of: bodily disposition
definition: A bodily disposition that is an aggregate of complex dispositions, endures over a period of years and is realised as emotion, belief, mood, motivational processes or behaviour.
comment: Personality is not the same as mood, although a person may have a personality that includes a predisposition to moods of certain types, moods may come and go but a personality stays relatively constant, not appearing and disappearing. Personality typically changes slowly over time.
comment: This class is intended to be broad enough to capture all the main personality constructs, including trait theories, type theories, and biopsychosocial theories.

personality trait
type: Class
subclass of: bodily disposition
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: part of continuant at some time
  some values from: personality
definition: A personality trait is an individual disposition or predisposition that forms part of an overall personality and is realized in repeated occurrences of a specific mental process type or behavioural profile.

rapid eye movement sleep
type: Class
subclass of: circadian sleep/wake cycle, REM sleep
subclass of: circadian behavior
subclass of: circadian sleep/wake cycle, sleep
imported from: nbo.owl

non-rapid eye movement sleep behavior
type: Class
subclass of: circadian sleep/wake cycle, non-REM sleep
subclass of: circadian behavior
subclass of: circadian sleep/wake cycle, sleep
definition: "Behavior related to all sleep stages in the circadian sleep/wake cycle other than REM sleep." [NBO:GVG]
imported from: nbo.owl

circadian rhythm
type: Class
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: "Endogenously driven roughly 24-hour cycle in biochemical, physiological, or behavioral processes." [GOC:bf]
imported from: nbo.owl

circadian period
type: Class
subclass of: circadian rhythm
imported from: nbo.owl

circadian persistence
type: Class
subclass of: circadian rhythm
imported from: nbo.owl

circadian phase
type: Class
subclass of: circadian rhythm
imported from: nbo.owl

circadian regulation of heart rate
type: Class
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: "Any process in which an organism modulates its heart rate at different values with a regularity of approximately 24 hours." [GOC:rl]
imported from: nbo.owl

circadian regulation of systemic arterial blood pressure
type: Class
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: "Any process in which an organism modulates its blood pressure at different values with a regularity of approximately 24 hours." [GO:GO\:0003052]
imported from: nbo.owl

circadian temperature homeostasis
type: Class
subclass of: circadian behavior
definition: "Any homeostatic process in which an organism modulates its internal body temperature at different values with a regularity of approximately 24 hours." [GOC:dbh]
imported from: nbo.owl

irritable aggressive behavior
type: Class
subclass of: aggressive behavior
imported from: nbo.owl

chase prey
type: Class
subclass of: capturing behaviour
definition: Active pursuit of fleeing prey.
imported from: nbo.owl

flush prey
type: Class
subclass of: capturing behaviour
definition: Behaviors in which predator forces potential prey to emerge from cover.
imported from: nbo.owl

construct capturing device
type: Class
subclass of: capturing behaviour
definition: Building of a trap, web, net, or other structure to help ensnare potential food items.
imported from: nbo.owl

stalk prey
type: Class
subclass of: capturing behaviour
definition: Approach to prey in manner designed to avoid early detection by prey.
imported from: nbo.owl

capturing behaviour
type: Class
subclass of: predatory behavior
definition: Suite of behaviors involved in securing a prey item once it has been located.
imported from: nbo.owl

capturing prey
type: Class
subclass of: capturing behaviour
definition: Behaviors that result in ending flight of prey with successful predation.
imported from: nbo.owl

bodily process
type: Class
subclass of: process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has participant at all times
  some values from: extended organism
definition: A process in which at least one bodily component of an organsim participates.
definition source: http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/10
comment: From OGMS: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OGMS_0000060

extended organism
type: Class
subclass of: material entity
comment: From OGMS: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OGMS_0000087

trust
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: positive valence
definition: A positive emotion characterized by assured reliance regarding the honesty, fairness, or abilities of an entity (e.g., person, object, or situation). This process involves an appraisal that the entity is reliable, safe, good and/or honest.

mistrust
type: Class
subclass of: emotion process
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: has occurrent part
  some values from: negative valence
definition: A negative emotion involving feelings of suspicion or doubt regarding the honesty, fairness, or abilities of an entity (e.g., person, object, or situation). This process includes an appraisal that the entity may be unreliable, potentially harmful and/or deceptive.

example to be eventually removed
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: example to be eventually removed

failed exploratory term
type: NamedIndividual
type: obsolescence reason specification
editor preferred term: failed exploratory term
definition: The term was used in an attempt to structure part of the ontology but in retrospect failed to do a good job
term editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg

metadata complete
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: metadata complete
definition: Class has all its metadata, but is either not guaranteed to be in its final location in the asserted IS_A hierarchy or refers to another class that is not complete.

organizational term
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: organizational term
definition: Term created to ease viewing/sort terms for development purpose, and will not be included in a release
definition: term created to ease viewing/sort terms for development purpose, and will not be included in a release

ready for release
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: ready for release
definition: Class has undergone final review, is ready for use, and will be included in the next release. Any class lacking "ready_for_release" should be considered likely to change place in hierarchy, have its definition refined, or be obsoleted in the next release. Those classes deemed "ready_for_release" will also derived from a chain of ancestor classes that are also "ready_for_release."

metadata incomplete
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: metadata incomplete
definition: Class is being worked on; however, the metadata (including definition) are not complete or sufficiently clear to the branch editors.

uncurated
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: uncurated
definition: Nothing done yet beyond assigning a unique class ID and proposing a preferred term.

pending final vetting
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: pending final vetting
definition: All definitions, placement in the asserted IS_A hierarchy and required minimal metadata are complete. The class is awaiting a final review by someone other than the term editor.

core
type: NamedIndividual
type: Subset
definition: Core is an instance of a grouping of terms from an ontology or ontologies. It is used by the ontology to identify main classes.
term editor: PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
term editor: PERSON: Melanie Courtot
has obsolescence reason: placeholder removed
label: obsolete_core
deprecated: true

placeholder removed
type: NamedIndividual
type: obsolescence reason specification
editor preferred term: placeholder removed

terms merged
type: NamedIndividual
type: obsolescence reason specification
editor preferred term: terms merged
editor note: An editor note should explain what were the merged terms and the reason for the merge.

term imported
type: NamedIndividual
type: obsolescence reason specification
editor preferred term: term imported
editor note: This is to be used when the original term has been replaced by a term imported from an other ontology. An editor note should indicate what is the URI of the new term to use.

term split
type: NamedIndividual
type: obsolescence reason specification
editor preferred term: term split
editor note: This is to be used when a term has been split in two or more new terms. An editor note should indicate the reason for the split and indicate the URIs of the new terms created.

universal
type: NamedIndividual
type: denotator type
editor preferred term: universal
editor note: Hard to give a definition for. Intuitively a "natural kind" rather than a collection of any old things, which a class is able to be, formally. At the meta level, universals are defined as positives, are disjoint with their siblings, have single asserted parents.
term editor: Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: A Formal Theory of Substances, Qualities, and Universals, http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/SQU.pdf

defined class
type: NamedIndividual
type: denotator type
editor preferred term: defined class
definition: A defined class is a class that is defined by a set of logically necessary and sufficient conditions but is not a universal
editor note: "definitions", in some readings, always are given by necessary and sufficient conditions. So one must be careful (and this is difficult sometimes) to distinguish between defined classes and universal.
term editor: Alan Ruttenberg

named class expression
type: NamedIndividual
type: denotator type
editor preferred term: named class expression
definition: A named class expression is a logical expression that is given a name. The name can be used in place of the expression.
editor note: named class expressions are used in order to have more concise logical definition but their extensions may not be interesting classes on their own. In languages such as OWL, with no provisions for macros, these show up as actuall classes. Tools may with to not show them as such, and to replace uses of the macros with their expansions
term editor: Alan Ruttenberg

to be replaced with external ontology term
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: to be replaced with external ontology term
definition: Terms with this status should eventually replaced with a term from another ontology.
term editor: Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: group:OBI

requires discussion
type: NamedIndividual
type: curation status specification
editor preferred term: requires discussion
definition: A term that is metadata complete, has been reviewed, and problems have been identified that require discussion before release. Such a term requires editor note(s) to identify the outstanding issues.
term editor: Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: group:OBI

out of scope
type: NamedIndividual
type: obsolescence reason specification
definition: The term was added to the ontology on the assumption it was in scope, but it turned out later that it was not.
editor note: This obsolesence reason should be used conservatively. Typical valid examples are: un-necessary grouping classes in disease ontologies, a phenotype term added on the assumption it was a disease.
term editor: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-3432
term tracker item: https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/ontology-metadata/issues/77
ontology term requester: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-3432