Person:Barry Smith

elucidation

Primitive terms in a highest-level ontology such as BFO are terms which are so basic to our understanding of reality that there is no way of defining them in a non-circular fashion. For these, therefore, we can provide only elucidations, supplemented by examples and by axioms

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl

person:Alan Ruttenberg