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denotator type

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000409

A denotator type indicates how a term should be interpreted from an ontological perspective.

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Term info

Label

denotator type

definition source

Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters

example of usage

The Basic Formal Ontology ontology makes a distinction between Universals and defined classes, where the formal are "natural kinds" and the latter arbitrary collections of entities.

term editor

Alan Ruttenberg

Term relations

Equivalent to:

{defined class, universal, named class expression}

Subclass of:

data about an ontology part

  Instances: 

universal 
named class expression 
defined class