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InheresIn ranges over ConcreteIndividual #11

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italojsoliveira opened this issue Jan 11, 2024 · 1 comment
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InheresIn ranges over ConcreteIndividual #11

italojsoliveira opened this issue Jan 11, 2024 · 1 comment

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InheresIn is ranging over ConcreteIndividual. This means that dispositions can inhere in events and situations, which is probably unintended. In the UFO-B main paper (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_27), trope can only inhere in objects (a subtype of endurants). However, a subsequent paper (https://content.iospress.com/articles/applied-ontology/ao190214) says, just like in gUFO, that dispositions can inhere in any concrete individual, which I believe is either a mistake or a design choice due to some desired or undesired inferences.

Indeed, in gUFO, that was a deliberate choice (https://nemo-ufes.github.io/gufo/#IntrinsicAspect): " Different from Guizzardi (2005), here we consider that aspects can inhere in concrete individuals in general, and not only in endurants." Why?

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Notice that by admitting that intrinsic aspects can inhere in any concrete individuals we allow several absurd scenarios: situations bearing dispositions; events bearing dispositions; a situation that activates its own dispositions and, therefore, events causing themselves, and so on.

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