Updated Object/Process elucidations

perspectives/persistence.ttl

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ email: [email protected]"""@en ,
                                            skos:example """Practically speaking, the Process class can be populated by primitive subclasses (e.g. Cooking) for each of which holds the axiom that not all the item temporal parts are of the same type of the whole (e.g. breaking an egg, which is not necessarily a cooking process) and there are at least two temporal item parts of different types (e.g. breaking and egg and turning on the stove).
 The intended usage is not for an individual to belong directly to Process, but to belong to a specific subclass of Process that identifies entities with a specific non-type-persistent structure."""@en ;
                                            skos:prefLabel "Process"@en ;
-                                           :EMMO_967080e5_2f42_4eb2_a3a9_c58143e835f9 "A whole that is identified according to a criteria based on its temporal evolution that is satisfied throughout its time extension."@en ;
+                                           :EMMO_967080e5_2f42_4eb2_a3a9_c58143e835f9 "The superclass for causal structure classes whose individuals have some temporal item parts that are not of the same type of the whole."@en ;
                                            :EMMO_c7b62dd7_063a_4c2a_8504_42f7264ba83f "A process can be defined only according to an entity type. The minimum process is an entity made of two entities of different types that are temporally related."@en ,
                                                                                       """Following the common definition of process, the reader may think that every entity in the EMMO should be a process, since every 4D entity0 always has a time dimension. However, in the EMMO we restrict the concept of process to items whose temporal parts show a change in type (i.e. every 4D object unfolds in time, but not every 4D time unfolding may be of interest for the ontologist and categorized as a process).
 The definition of every specific process subclass requires a reference type, that is expressed by some but not all temporal parts."""@en .
@@ -55,10 +55,11 @@ The definition of every specific process subclass requires a reference type, tha
                                            skos:example """Practically speaking, the Object class can be populated by primitive subclasses (e.g. Car) for each of which holds the axiom that all the item parts are of the same type of the whole (e.g. Car SubClassOf hasTemporalItemPart only Car).
 The intended usage is not for an individual to belong directly to Object, but to belong to a specific subclass of Object that identifies entities with a type-persistent structure."""@en ;
                                            skos:prefLabel "Object"@en ;
-                                           :EMMO_31252f35_c767_4b97_a877_1235076c3e13 "An item can be classified as an object according to a type ϕ (a ϕ-object) if  all its temporal item parts are also of type ϕ. This conceptualisation tries to catch the persistency of type in the temporal parts of an entity."@en ;
-                                           :EMMO_967080e5_2f42_4eb2_a3a9_c58143e835f9 "The class of causal structure entities for which exists a type ϕ to which all its temporal item parts belongs."@en ;
+                                           :EMMO_31252f35_c767_4b97_a877_1235076c3e13 "An item can be classified as an object according to a type ϕ (a ϕ-object) if it's a ϕ all its temporal item parts are also of type ϕ. This conceptualisation tries to catch the persistency of type in the temporal parts of an entity."@en ;
+                                           :EMMO_967080e5_2f42_4eb2_a3a9_c58143e835f9 "The superclass for causal structure classes whose individuals have all temporal item parts of the same type of the whole."@en ;
                                            :EMMO_c7b62dd7_063a_4c2a_8504_42f7264ba83f """Indefinitely temporally slicing of an entity leads to temporal parts whose temporal extension is so small that the connectivity relations that define the entity as an item will no longer hold. More generally. a temporal part is no more of type ϕ when the temporal interval is lower than the interval that characterizes the causality interactions between the object parts.
-In other terms, if the time span of a temporal part is lower than the inverse of the frequency of interactions between the constituents, then the constituents in such temporal part are not connected. The object is no more an object, neither an item, but simply a collection of fundamental quantum parts."""@en .
+In other terms, if the time span of a temporal part is lower than the inverse of the frequency of interactions between the constituents, then the constituents in such temporal part are not connected. The object is no more an object, neither an item, but simply a collection of fundamental quantum parts.
+For this reason, the definition of object is done by considering only item temporal parts, meaning that slicing in time has the lower limit of a self-connected (i.e. item) entity."""@en .
 
 
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