Subclass of:

• crm:E13 Attribute Assignment

Superclass of:

• crmsci:S6 Data Evaluation
• crmsci:S7 Simulation or Prediction
• crmsci:S8 Categorical Hypothesis Building

Scope note:

This class comprises the action of making propositions and statements about particular states of affairs in reality or in possible realities or categorical descriptions of reality by using inferences from other statements based on hypotheses and any form of formal or informal logic. It includes evaluations, calculations, and interpretations based on mathematical formulations and propositions.

Examples:

• the inference made by Sakellarakis in 1980 about the sacrifice of a young man in the Minoan temple of Anemospilia based on the skeleton found (and 2 more) in the west room of the temple and the ritual bronze knife on it and the hypothesis that he died from loss of blood (S5) [the evidence was that his bones remained white in contrast to the others] (Sakellarakis and Sapouna-Sakellaraki, 1981).
• the inference that the underdrawing of the painting ‘Cupid complaining to Venus’ was done with red pigment, based on the observation that red pigment lines appear under the
  top paint layers (S5) (Foister, 2015).

In First Order Logic:

• S5(x) ⇒ E13(x)