http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DOLCE-Lite#quality
Qualities can be seen as the basic entities we can perceive or measure: shapes, colors, sizes, sounds, smells, as well as weights, lengths, electrical charges... 'Quality' is often used as a synonymous of 'property', but this is not the case in this upper ontology: qualities are particulars, properties are universals. Qualities inhere to entities: every entity (including qualities themselves) comes with certain qualities, which exist as long as the entity exists.
Instances of dol:quality can have the following properties:
| PROPERTY | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | RANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| From class dol:quality | |||
| dol:has-quale | owl:ObjectProperty | A quality having a q-location at an atomic region. | dol:quale |
| dol:inherent-in | owl:ObjectProperty | The immediate relation holding for qualities and entities. | dol:particular |
| dol:q-location | owl:ObjectProperty | The immediate relation holding for qualities and regions. See 'generic location' branching for the various mediated relations that embed q-location. | dol:region |
| dol:t-inherent-in | owl:ObjectProperty | The immediate relation holding for qualities and entities at time t. | dol:particular |
@prefix dol: <http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DOLCE-Lite#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
dol:quality a owl:Class ;
rdfs:comment "Qualities can be seen as the basic entities we can perceive or measure: shapes, colors, sizes, sounds, smells, as well as weights, lengths, electrical charges... 'Quality' is often used as a synonymous of 'property', but this is not the case in this upper ontology: qualities are particulars, properties are universals. Qualities inhere to entities: every entity (including qualities themselves) comes with certain qualities, which exist as long as the entity exists."^^xsd:string ;
rdfs:subClassOf [ a owl:Restriction ;
owl:onProperty dol:inherent-in ;
owl:someValuesFrom dol:particular ],
dol:spatio-temporal-particular .