Amount of Matter – C49
Validation status: Validated
C49 Amount of Matter
Subclass of:
Scope note:
This class comprises portions or bunches of one or more materials, like a sea, a pile of wood, the flour I just bought and is in this bag, and the milk in this bottle, whose form is provided by the container or is not stable enough to provide persistent unity to the entity, but suffices to provide some kind of identity and is the object of discourse "in an identifiable way for an identifiable minimal time-span." (crm:E18 Physical Thing, v. 7.1.2).
This class, gathering identifiable amounts of solid, liquid or gazeiform matter, is thus defined as a specialization of the crm:E18 Physical Thing class and inherits all its properties. It allows to capture the information available about ephemeral but identifiable amounts of matter.
Examples:
The mortar and bricks that makes up the wall, and will be transported and used to fill the hole of the old collapsed cistern
The sand sculpture I erected on the beach and on which I wrote a sentence for posterity, and which was destroyed by the tide after I took a picture of it, and which has now become the trademark of my consulting business
Context notes:
This class is conceptualised, in a foundational perspective, in reference to the DOLCE Amount of Matter class and therefore disjoint with the crm:E19 Physical Object and crm:E26 Physical Feature classes, while the crm:E18 Physical Thing class, the parent of the three former classes, corresponds to the Physical Endurant class in DOLCE.
In First Order Logic:
- C49(x) ⇒ E18(x)
Scope notes
| Show | Scope note | Language | Namespace | View details | Comments | Validation |
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| This class comprises portions or bunches of one or more materials, like a sea, a pile of wood, the flour I just bought and is in this bag, and the milk in this bottle, whose form is provided by the container or is not stable enough to provide persistent unity to the entity, but suffices to provide some kind of identity and is the object of discourse "in an identifiable way for an identifiable minimal time-span." (crm:E18 Physical Thing, v. 7.1.2). This class, gathering identifiable amounts of solid, liquid or gazeiform matter, is thus defined as a specialization of the crm:E18 Physical Thing class and inherits all its properties. It allows to capture the information available about ephemeral but identifiable amounts of matter. | en | SDHSS Core ongoing | 0 | Validated |
Examples
| Show | Example | Language | Namespace | View details | Comments | Validation |
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| The mortar and bricks that makes up the wall, and will be transported and used to fill the hole of the old collapsed cistern | en | SDHSS Core ongoing | 0 | Validated | ||
| The sand sculpture I erected on the beach and on which I wrote a sentence for posterity, and which was destroyed by the tide after I took a picture of it, and which has now become the trademark of my consulting business | en | SDHSS Core ongoing | 0 | Validated |
Additional notes
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Identifier: C49
Official URI: https://sdhss.org/ontology/core/1.2/C49
OntoME URI: https://ontome.net/ontology/c1152
Labels
| Label | Language | Last updated | View details | Comments | Validation |
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| Amount of Matter * | en | 2025-05-20 | 0 | Validated |
* : Standard label for this language
Namespace
| Namespace | Last updated |
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| SDHSS Core v1.2 | 2025-06-20 |
| SDHSS Core v1.1 | 2025-06-20 |
| SDHSS Core v1.0 | 2025-06-19 |
| SDHSS Core ongoing | 2021-04-21 |
Parent classes
| Class | Class namespace | Relation defined in | Justification | View details | Edit | Delete | Comments | Validation |
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| E18 Physical Thing | CIDOC CRM version 7.1.3 | SDHSS Core ongoing |
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0 | Validated |
Ancestor classes
| Class | Depth | Class namespace | Via |
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| E1 CRM Entity | 5 | CIDOC CRM version 7.1.3 | E18 - E72 - E70 - E77 |
| E70 Thing | 3 | CIDOC CRM version 7.1.3 | E18 - E72 |
| E72 Legal Object | 2 | CIDOC CRM version 7.1.3 | E18 |
| E77 Persistent Item | 4 | CIDOC CRM version 7.1.3 | E18 - E72 - E70 |
| Thing | 6 | OntoME internal model - active version | E18 - E72 - E70 - E77 - E1 |
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Profiles using this class
| Label | Version | Status | Last updated |
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| Structures - Production, modification and transformation | 1 | Deprecated | 2023-10-11 |
| Constructions - Production, modification and transformation ongoing | 2 | Ongoing | 2023-10-25 |
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