Natural Language View: BFO-Occurents

CONNECTED SPATIOTEMPORAL REGION (class)

Definition	A connected spatiotemporal region is defined as something that is a spatiotemporal instant, or is a spatiotemporal interval.
Typology	A connected spatiotemporal region is a spatiotemporal region.
Examples	Spatiotemporal intervals, and spatiotemporal instants are connected spatiotemporal regions.
Distinctions	No connected spatiotemporal region is a scattered spatiotemporal region.

CONNECTED TEMPORAL REGION (class)

Definition	A connected temporal region is defined as something that is a temporal instant, or is a temporal interval.
Typology	A connected temporal region is a temporal region.
Examples	Temporal intervals, and temporal instants are connected temporal regions.
Distinctions	No connected temporal region is a scattered temporal region.

ENTITY (class)

Examples

An occurrent is an entity.

FIAT PROCESS PART (class)

Typology	A fiat process part is a processual entity.
Distinctions	No fiat process part is any of the following: a processual context, a process boundary, a process aggregate, or a process.

OCCURRENT (class)

Definition	An occurrent is defined as something that is a processual entity, is a spatiotemporal region, or is a temporal region.
Typology	An occurrent is an entity.
Examples	The following are occurrents: temporal regions, spatiotemporal regions, and processual entities.

PROCESS (class)

Typology

A process is a processual entity.

Distinctions

No fiat process part is a process.

No process is any of the following: a processual context, a process boundary, or a process aggregate.

PROCESS AGGREGATE (class)

Typology

A process aggregate is a processual entity.

Distinctions

No process aggregate is a processual context, or a process boundary.

No process or fiat process parts are process aggregates.

PROCESS BOUNDARY (class)

Typology

A process boundary is a processual entity.

Distinctions

No process boundary is a processual context.

None of the following are process boundaries: process aggregates, process, or fiat process parts.

PROCESSUAL CONTEXT (class)

Typology	A processual context is a processual entity.
Distinctions	None of the following are processual contexts: process boundaries, process aggregates, process, or fiat process parts.

PROCESSUAL ENTITY (class)

Definition	A processual entity is defined as something that is a fiat process part, is a process, is a process aggregate, is a process boundary, or is a processual context.
Typology	A processual entity is an occurrent.
Examples	The following are processual entities: processual contexts, process boundaries and process aggregates, and so on (5 items in total).
Distinctions	No processual entity is a temporal region, or a spatiotemporal region.

SCATTERED SPATIOTEMPORAL REGION (class)

Typology	A scattered spatiotemporal region is a spatiotemporal region.
Distinctions	No connected spatiotemporal region is a scattered spatiotemporal region.

SCATTERED TEMPORAL REGION (class)

Typology	A scattered temporal region is a temporal region.
Distinctions	No connected temporal region is a scattered temporal region.

SPATIOTEMPORAL INSTANT (class)

Typology	A spatiotemporal instant is a connected spatiotemporal region.
Distinctions	No spatiotemporal instant is a spatiotemporal interval.

SPATIOTEMPORAL INTERVAL (class)

Typology	A spatiotemporal interval is a connected spatiotemporal region.
Distinctions	No spatiotemporal instant is a spatiotemporal interval.

SPATIOTEMPORAL REGION (class)

Definition	A spatiotemporal region is defined as something that is a connected spatiotemporal region, or is a scattered spatiotemporal region.
Typology	A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent.
Examples	Scattered spatiotemporal regions, and connected spatiotemporal regions are spatiotemporal regions.
Distinctions	No processual entity is a spatiotemporal region. No spatiotemporal region is a temporal region.

TEMPORAL INSTANT (class)

Typology	A temporal instant is a connected temporal region.
Distinctions	No temporal instant is a temporal interval.

TEMPORAL INTERVAL (class)

Typology	A temporal interval is a connected temporal region.
Distinctions	No temporal instant is a temporal interval.

TEMPORAL REGION (class)

Definition	A temporal region is defined as something that is a connected temporal region, or is a scattered temporal region.
Typology	A temporal region is an occurrent.
Examples	Scattered temporal regions, and connected temporal regions are temporal regions.
Distinctions	No spatiotemporal regions or processual entities are temporal regions.