Instances Are Sometimes Classes
- related: Multi-Level Theory
t.2024.03.16.17
- is the solution to all my worrying about Instances Are Sometimes Classes literally just everything non-specific is a class? like topics are classes? things that are just instances:
- documents
- concrete individuals (but not characters/characterizations)
- locations. (but what about locale.North-America.coastal (Private)?)
- it depends:
- "coastal north america" taken as a whole is an instance
- "coastal north-american locations" is a class
- it depends:
- events (but not event types)
t.2024.08.20.12
- put another way, non-leaf nodes in a hierarchy are classes
- not all trees are hierarchies, see Abc Ontology
- topics are specific, and not necessarily classes (unless the topic is a class, say, "north american locations"). just because you have sub-topics or sub-whatever (i.e., hierarchy) doesn't make something a class. locations aren't classes, location-types or even location-collections are.
- for my dendron notes, I've overloaded topics, such that they are both classes and instances.
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