BFO-2020
BFO-2020 copied to clipboard
[ild-1]: comment is misleading wrt axiom
(cl:comment "participates-in is time indexed and has domain: independent-continuant but not spatial-region or specifically-dependent-continuant or generically-dependent-continuant and range: process [ild-1]" (forall (a b t) (if (participates-in a b t) (and (or (and (instance-of a independent-continuant t) (not (instance-of a spatial-region t))) (instance-of a specifically-dependent-continuant t) (instance-of a generically-dependent-continuant t)) (instance-of b process t) (instance-of t temporal-region t)))))
It is easy to interpret the comment differently than what the axiom says and this because of the use of 'and' and 'or' in the comment. So people not reading the axiom, and only the comment, might get it wrong. Better comment phrasing: "participates-in is time indexed and has domain: (a) independent-continuant but not spatial-region or, (b) specifically-dependent-continuant or (c) generically-dependent-continuant, and range: process [ild-1]" This avoids the erroneous reading "participates-in is time indexed and has domain: independent-continuant but not (a) spatial-region or (b) specifically-dependent-continuant or (c) generically-dependent-continuant, and range: process [ild-1]"