Barry Smith

From: Bill Hogan ***@***.***> Sent: Friday, May 3, 2024 3:45 PM To: BFO-ontology/BFO-2020 ***@***.***> Cc: Barry Smith ***@***.***>; Mention ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [BFO-ontology/BFO-2020] Question on qualities of spatial regions (Issue...

Note that we do not want to adopt for aggregates analogues of formation principles of the sort accepted in set theory Aggregates are entities which exist in time. We want...

There is a demarcation zone and demarcation line In general there is no BFO class such that one and the same entity can instantiate it and not instantiate it at...

An egg and a sperm fuse. An object aggregate is replaced by (does not become) an object. The tail of a cat is chopped off. A new object is created...

From: Michael Rabenberg ***@***.***> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 10:52 AM To: BFO-ontology/BFO-2020 ***@***.***> Cc: Barry Smith ***@***.***>; Mention ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [BFO-ontology/BFO-2020] The spatial regions that continuant fiat boundaries...

I think that '[portion of] gall tissue' should be added to the Plant Anatomy Ontology -- perhaps as a sibling of 'plant callus' BS On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at...

The part would more properly be called 'aggregate of fruit', as a child of BFO:'object aggregate' Barry On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 3:13 PM Anoosha Sehar wrote: > Hi,...

I think a fully combinatorial approach would lead to regrettable overpopulation. I.e. we have a standard strategy for creating the terms, but only allow them to be created when there...

sounds good to me BS On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Laurel Cooper wrote: > So what we need is a list of the plant parts that you...

You should never use the 'is associated with' -- it has no meaning. Also, I don't see how a request can be a quality. BS On Thu, Nov 12, 2015...