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"\"In our ontology, space and time are considered  as  quality  types  like  color,  weight,etc.  The  spatial  (temporal)  individual  quality  of  an  entity  is  called spatial (temporal)location,  while  its  quale  is  called  spatial (temporal) region.  For  example,  the  spatiallocation  of  a  physical  object  is  just  one  of  its  individual  qualities:  it  belongs  to  thequality type space, and its quale  is  a  region  in  the  geometric  space.  Similarly for  the temporal  location  of  an  occurrence, whose quale  is  a  region  in  the  temporal  space.This allows an homogeneous approach that remains neutral about the properties  of  thegeometric/temporal space adopted (for instance, one may assume a circular time).\"

GANGEMI, Aldo, GUARINO, Nicola, MASOLO, Claudio, et al. Sweetening ontologies with DOLCE. In : International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2002. p. 166-181.

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