Purposive Thing

Definition

Purposive Thing. Something described in terms of its purpose or potential purpose. Editorial Note: That which fulfils this role is generally taken to be some kind of Independent Thing However it is conceivable that the existence of some relative thing, for example an asset, may itself be put to a purpose over and above the role or context already defined for it, and wholly dependent on it being that relative thing and not siply a thing in itself. therefore the identity relationship is modeled with a range of Thing, but is modeled as a separate relationship to that of Relative Thing in order to make this conclusion explicit. This relationship need not be used in operational application ontologies as it adds no new logical assertion.

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