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| Instances | Autonomous agent | Something or someone that can act on its own and produce changes in the world. |
| | collection | Collections have members like Classes, but, unlike Classes, they have a position in space-time and members can be added and subtracted without thereby changing the identity of the Collection. Some examples are toolkits, repeated actions, football teams, and flocks of sheep. |
| | entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | ethnic group | A GroupOfPeople whose members originate from the same GeographicArea or share the same Language and/or cultural practices. |
| | group | A Collection of Agents, e.g. a flock of sheep, a herd of goats, or the local Boy Scout troop. |
| | group of people | Any Group whose members are exclusively Humans. |
| | object | Corresponds roughly to the class of ordinary objects. Examples include normal physical objects, geographical regions, and locations of Processes, the complement of Objects in the Physical class. In a 4D ontology, an Object is something whose spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into spatial parts roughly parallel to the time-axis. |
| | physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
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