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<h2 id="t2024031617">t.2024.03.16.17<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#t2024031617"></a></h2>
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<li>is the solution to all my worrying about <a href="/wiki/notes/lcbxpavzjfy9p71s6ick0a7">Instances Are Sometimes Classes</a> literally just everything non-specific is a class? like topics are classes? things that are just instances:
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<li>documents</li>
<li>concrete individuals (but not characters/characterizations)</li>
<li>locations. (but what about <a title="Private" href="https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/hfyvYGJZQiUwQaaxQO27q.html" target="_blank" class="private">locale.North-America.coastal (Private)</a>?)
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<li>it depends: 
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<li>"coastal north america" taken as a whole is an instance</li>
<li>"coastal north-american locations" is a class</li>
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<li>events (but not event types)</li>
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<h2 id="t2024082012">t.2024.08.20.12<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#t2024082012"></a></h2>
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<li>put another way, non-leaf nodes in a hierarchy are classes
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<li>not all trees are hierarchies, see <a href="/wiki/notes/6nwlsa50uotwgilu6ba41yb">Abc Ontology</a></li>
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<li>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. 
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<li>for my dendron notes, I've overloaded topics, such that they are both classes and instances. </li>
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<h2 id="related">Related<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#related"></a></h2>
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<li><a href="/wiki/notes/gpjt0tgwkb6khor1tcvlgmb">Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item</a></li>
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Instances Are Sometimes Classes

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