Rich Cooper wrote:
> Adding Ian's extra category:
>
> -wholePart (individual,individual)
>
> to my previous email suggesting an ultra high level ontology basis,
> see the modified ontology below.  (01) 
Does anyone know what wholePart means?  (02)
As I recall, some published paper on Whole-Part relationships identified 
22 possible axioms (although many of them require a 4D universe to have 
meaning). So wholePart is a category of relations that have exactly 
which axioms in common? Are they all antisymmetric? are they all 
transitive? are they 'perdurant'? Etc.  (03)
I don't doubt that the specification at least tries to define these 
things carefully. I do doubt that its definitions are axiomatic. But 
we are ill-advised to judge anything from a list of indented terms.  (04)
(And Ian must be careful how much he publishes to this group, because 
such publication has the potential for violation of ISO copyright.)  (05)
-Ed  (06)
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