(define-theory Meronymy (Topology Top-Level))
(in-theory 'Meronymy)
(DEFINE-RELATION COMPONENT (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE COMPONENT-OF) COMPONENT)
(LOCALIZED-ENTITY ?A)
(LOCALIZED-ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE COMPONENT LOCALIZED-ENTITY)
(DOMAIN COMPONENT LOCALIZED-ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION COMPONENT-OF (?A ?B)
"A specialized common sense notion of part for
heterogeneous parts of complexes. Consider the difficult issue of componentiality
for substances and masses in general."
:DEF
(AND (_COMPLEX ?B TRUE)
(PART-OF ?A ?B)
(LOCALIZED-ENTITY ?A)
(LOCALIZED-ENTITY ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL (?A ?B)
"Is structurally made up of in whole or in part of some
material or matter. This includes composed of, made of, and formed of."
:IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL-OF) CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL)
(MATERIAL-OBJECT ?A)
(MATERIAL-OBJECT ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL MATERIAL-OBJECT)
(DOMAIN CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL MATERIAL-OBJECT)))
(DEFINE-RELATION CONSISTS-OF (?A ?B)
"Is structurally made up of in whole or in part of some
material or matter. This includes composed of, made of, and formed of."
:IFF-DEF (CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL ?A ?B))
(DEFINE-RELATION CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL-OF (?A ?B) :DEF
(AND (PART-OF ?A ?B) (MATERIAL-OBJECT ?A) (MATERIAL-OBJECT ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION CONSTITUTES (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL-OF ?A ?B))
(DEFINE-RELATION CONSTITUTIVE-PHASE (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE CONSTITUTIVE-PHASE-OF) CONSTITUTIVE-PHASE)
(TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY ?A)
(TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE CONSTITUTIVE-PHASE TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY)
(DOMAIN CONSTITUTIVE-PHASE TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION CONSTITUTIVE-PHASE-OF (?A ?B) :DEF
(AND (TEMPORAL-PART-OF ?A ?B) (STRICTLY-NECESSARY-TO ?A ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION DIRECTIONAL-PART (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE DIRECTIONAL-PART-OF) DIRECTIONAL-PART)
(ENTITY ?A)
(ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE DIRECTIONAL-PART ENTITY)
(DOMAIN DIRECTIONAL-PART ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION DIRECTIONAL-PART-OF (?A ?B)
"A part focalized by means of a directional schema
applied to the whole."
:DEF (SEGMENT-OF ?A ?B))
(DEFINE-RELATION ELEMENT (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE ELEMENT-OF) ELEMENT) (ENTITY ?A) (ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE ELEMENT ENTITY)
(DOMAIN ELEMENT ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION ELEMENT-OF (?A ?B)
"A specialized common sense notion of part for uniform
parts of collections. Quasi-synonyms: item, member."
:DEF
(AND (_COLLECTION ?B TRUE)
(FORALL (?W ?Z)
(=> (AND (ELEMENT-OF ?W ?B) (ELEMENT-OF ?Z ?B))
(EQUAL-BUT-LOCALIZATION ?W ?Z)))
(PART-OF ?A ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION FINER-GRAIN-COMPONENT (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (COARSER-GRANULARITY ?A ?B)
(COMPONENT ?A ?B)
(MATERIAL-OBJECT ?A)
(MATERIAL-OBJECT ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE FINER-GRAIN-COMPONENT MATERIAL-OBJECT)
(DOMAIN FINER-GRAIN-COMPONENT MATERIAL-OBJECT)))
(DEFINE-RELATION FINER-GRAIN-COMPONENT-OF (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (COMPONENT-OF ?A ?B)
(FINER-GRANULARITY ?A ?B)
(MATERIAL-OBJECT ?A)
(MATERIAL-OBJECT ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION FINER-GRAIN-PART (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE FINER-GRAIN-PART-OF) FINER-GRAIN-PART)
(ENTITY ?A)
(ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE FINER-GRAIN-PART ENTITY)
(DOMAIN FINER-GRAIN-PART ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION FINER-GRAIN-PART-OF (?A ?B) :DEF
(AND (PART-OF ?A ?B) (FINER-GRANULARITY ?A ?B)) :AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE FINER-GRAIN-PART-OF MATERIAL-OBJECT)
(DOMAIN FINER-GRAIN-PART-OF MATERIAL-OBJECT)))
(DEFINE-RELATION MEREOLOGICAL-MEMBER (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE MEREOLOGICAL-MEMBER-OF) MEREOLOGICAL-MEMBER)
(ENTITY ?A)
(ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE MEREOLOGICAL-MEMBER ENTITY)
(DOMAIN MEREOLOGICAL-MEMBER ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION MEREOLOGICAL-MEMBER-OF (?A ?B)
"A specialized notion of element for uniform social
parts of collections. Quasi-synonyms: participant, adept."
:DEF (ELEMENT-OF ?A ?B) :AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(DOMAIN MEREOLOGICAL-MEMBER-OF SOCIAL-OBJECT))
(DEFINE-RELATION PIECE (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE PIECE-OF) PIECE) (ENTITY ?A) (ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE PIECE ENTITY)
(DOMAIN PIECE ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION PIECE-OF (?A ?B)
"A specialized common sense notion of part for arbitrary
parts of masses, usually characterized by quantitative measure (either in a numerical
or an analogic scale). It is transitive. Quasi-synonyms: chunk, quantity, amount."
:DEF
(AND (=> (AND (PART-OF ?A ?B) (PART-OF ?B ?A)) (IDENTITY ?A ?B))
(PART-OF ?A ?B)
(ENTITY ?A)
(ENTITY ?B))
:CONSTRAINTS (AND (ENTITY ?A) (ENTITY ?B)) :AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE PIECE-OF ENTITY)
(DOMAIN PIECE-OF ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION PORTION (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE PORTION-OF) PORTION) (ENTITY ?A) (ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE PORTION ENTITY)
(DOMAIN PORTION ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION PORTION-OF (?A ?B)
"A specialized common sense notion for parts selected by
means of features which are not primary in the structure of the whole: color, judgment
(truehe annoying part'), sex (truehe female part'), matter (truehe wooden part'). In some
cases primariness is debatable (a complex may be structured according to matter or
color): this is solved by contextual interpretation."
:DEF (PART-OF ?A ?B))
(DEFINE-RELATION POSITIONAL-PART (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE POSITIONAL-PART-OF) POSITIONAL-PART)
(ENTITY ?A)
(ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE POSITIONAL-PART ENTITY)
(DOMAIN POSITIONAL-PART ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION POSITIONAL-PART-OF (?A ?B)
"A part focalized by means of a positional relation
with another object."
:DEF (AND (EXISTS ?Z (POSITION-RELATION ?A ?Z)) (SEGMENT-OF ?A ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION PRIME-COMPONENT (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE PRIME-COMPONENT-OF) PRIME-COMPONENT)
(LOCALIZED-ENTITY ?A)
(LOCALIZED-ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE PRIME-COMPONENT LOCALIZED-ENTITY)
(DOMAIN PRIME-COMPONENT LOCALIZED-ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION PRIME-COMPONENT-OF (?A ?B)
"A strong relation of componentiality, connected
to integrity of complexes, specially systems. Quasi-synonym: essential part."
:DEF
(AND (=> (ABSENT-IN ?A ?B) (NOT (_INTEGRAL ?B TRUE))) (COMPONENT ?A ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION SAMPLE-OF (?A ?B) :DEF (PIECE-OF ?A ?B)
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS (RANGE SAMPLE-OF MATERIAL-OBJECT))
(DEFINE-RELATION SAMPLE-SOURCE (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE SAMPLE-OF) SAMPLE-SOURCE) (ENTITY ?A) (ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE SAMPLE-SOURCE ENTITY)
(DOMAIN SAMPLE-SOURCE ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION SEGMENT (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE SEGMENT-OF) SEGMENT) (ENTITY ?A) (ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE SEGMENT ENTITY)
(DOMAIN SEGMENT ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION SEGMENT-OF (?A ?B)
"A specialized common sense notion for parts selected
by means of external schemata: usually a dimensional or topological scheme (top, left,
front, exterior, border, interior, side, edge, half, phase) (Gerstl-Pribbenow96)."
:DEF (PART-OF ?A ?B))
(DEFINE-RELATION SHELF-PART (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE SHELF-PART-OF) SHELF-PART) (ENTITY ?A) (ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE SHELF-PART ENTITY)
(DOMAIN SHELF-PART ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION SHELF-PART-OF (?A ?B) :DEF (SEGMENT-OF ?A ?B)
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE SHELF-PART-OF MATERIAL-OBJECT)
(DOMAIN SHELF-PART-OF MATERIAL-OBJECT)))
(DEFINE-RELATION TEMPORAL-PART (?A ?B) :IFF-DEF
(AND (= (INVERSE TEMPORAL-PART-OF) TEMPORAL-PART)
(TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY ?A)
(TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE TEMPORAL-PART TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY)
(DOMAIN TEMPORAL-PART TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION TEMPORAL-PART-OF (?A ?B) :DEF
(AND (=> (AND (PART-OF ?A ?B) (PART-OF ?B ?A)) (IDENTITY ?A ?B))
(PART-OF ?A ?B)
(TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY ?A)
(TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY ?B))
:CONSTRAINTS (AND (TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY ?A) (TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY ?B))
:AXIOM-CONSTRAINTS
(AND (RANGE TEMPORAL-PART-OF TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY)
(DOMAIN TEMPORAL-PART-OF TEMPORALIZED-ENTITY)))
(DEFINE-RELATION _COLLECTION (?A ?B)
"Common sense wholes having an elementary uniform
compositional structure, but parts are distinguished only with respect to each other,
not to the whole (Gerstl-Pribbenow96)."
:DEF
(AND (FORALL (?Y ?Z)
(=> (AND (ELEMENT-OF ?Y ?A) (ELEMENT-OF ?Z ?A))
(NOT (COMMON-PART ?Y ?Z))))
(_WEAK-WHOLE ?A ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION _COMPLEX (?A ?B)
"Common sense wholes having a (multiple) heterogeneous
compositional structure: systems, composites, compounds, etc. (Gerstl-Pribbenow96)."
:IFF-DEF (AND (NOT (_HOMOGENEOUS ?A ?B)) (_WEAK-WHOLE ?A ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION _CONFIGURATION (?A ?B)
"The special kind of complex which features only one
additional structure: stacks, piles, series, etc. (Gerstl-Pribbenow96)."
:DEF (_WEAK-WHOLE ?A ?B))
(DEFINE-RELATION _HOMOGENEOUS (?A ?B)
"Something is homogeneous when it has only arbitrary
pieces as parts; ie any parts have similar properties."
:DEF
(AND (FORALL (?P ?Q ?C1 ?C2)
(=>
(AND (PART-OF ?P ?A)
(PART-OF ?Q ?A)
(INSTANCE-OF ?C1 CONCEPT)
(INSTANCE-OF ?C2 CONCEPT)
(INSTANCE-OF ?P ?C1)
(INSTANCE-OF ?Q ?C2))
(IDENTITY ?C1 ?C2)))
(MEREOLOGICAL-PROPERTY ?A ?B)))
(DEFINE-RELATION _MASS (?A ?B)
"Common sense wholes having no compositional
structure (Gerstl-Pribbenow96)."
:IFF-DEF (AND (_WEAK-WHOLE ?A ?B) (_HOMOGENEOUS ?A ?B) (MATERIAL-OBJECT ?A)))
(DEFINE-RELATION _SYSTEM (?A ?B) :DEF
(AND (_COMPLEX ?A ?B) (OBJECT ?A)))
(DEFINE-RELATION _WEAK-WHOLE (?A ?B)
"The most general notion of whole, and merges both the
notion of mereologic whole (theory: 'mereology') and the common-sense notions of
specialized wholes; thus, nothing is said about self-connexity. A weak whole can be
either concentrated or distributed."
:DEF (MEREOLOGICAL-PROPERTY ?A ?B))
(DEFINE-CLASS *ATOMIC-WHOLE (?SELF)
"The whole containing no proper parts: this concept
is useful in domain ontologies which assume atomicity, say that there are irreducible
objects in the domain (eg, an ontology for the storage of original, pre-packaged car
accessories versus an ontology for car parts recycling dealers)."
:IFF-DEF (AND (OBJECT ?SELF) (VALUE-CARDINALITY ?SELF _ATOM 1))
:AXIOM-DEF (THE-ARCHETYPE *ATOMIC-WHOLE REIFIED-PROPERTY))
(DEFINE-CLASS *DISTRIBUTED-WHOLE (?SELF) "Distributed wholes."
:IFF-DEF
(AND (OBJECT ?SELF) (VALUE-CARDINALITY ?SELF _DISTRIBUTED 1))
:CONSTRAINTS (VALUE-CARDINALITY ?SELF _WEAK-WHOLE 1) :AXIOM-DEF
(THE-ARCHETYPE *DISTRIBUTED-WHOLE REIFIED-PROPERTY))
(DEFINE-CLASS *INTEGRAL-WHOLE (?SELF)
"Common sense wholes with integrity, to be distinguished
according to the presence of a compositional structure."
:IFF-DEF (AND (OBJECT ?SELF) (VALUE-CARDINALITY ?SELF _INTEGRAL 1))
:CONSTRAINTS (VALUE-CARDINALITY ?SELF _WEAK-WHOLE 1) :AXIOM-DEF
(THE-ARCHETYPE *INTEGRAL-WHOLE REIFIED-PROPERTY))
(DEFINE-CLASS *MASS (?SELF)
:IFF-DEF
(AND (MATERIAL-OBJECT ?SELF)
(VALUE-CARDINALITY ?SELF _MASS 1)
(EXISTS (?A) (AND (CONSTITUENT-MATERIAL ?SELF ?A) (SUBSTANCE ?A)))))
(DEFINE-CLASS *SCATTERED-WHOLE (?SELF)
"Common sense wholes without integrity." :IFF-DEF
(AND (OBJECT ?SELF) (VALUE-TYPE ?SELF _INTEGRAL INCOHERENT))
:CONSTRAINTS (VALUE-CARDINALITY ?SELF _WEAK-WHOLE 1) :AXIOM-DEF
(THE-ARCHETYPE *SCATTERED-WHOLE REIFIED-PROPERTY))
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