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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.
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BodyOfWater | A BodyOfWater is a connected body of water with established boundaries marked by either geographical features or conventional borders. |
| | CorpuscularObject | A SelfConnectedObject whose parts have properties that are not shared by the whole. |
| | Food | Food that is fit for Human. |
| | Iceberg | An Iceberg is a large chunk of Ice that has broken off from a Glacier and fallen into a BodyOfWater. The larger part of an Iceberg floats underwater. |
| | OrganicThing | A SelfConnectedObject that is produced by a non-intentional process from an Organism. Note that this refers only to the primary cause. That is, a PlantAgriculturalProduct is firstly produced by a Plant, and only secondarily by a Human that is tending the plant. |
| | Ramp | Ramp is the class of SelfConnectedObjects that are inclined planes used for moving objects from one level to another, especially used for wheeled vehicles and people who cannot climb stairs. |
| | Substance | An Object in which every part is similar to every other in every relevant respect. More precisely, something is a Substance when it has only arbitrary pieces as parts - any parts have properties which are similar to those of the whole. Note that a Substance may nonetheless have physical properties that vary. For example, the temperature, chemical constitution, density, etc. may change from one part to another. An example would be a body of water. |
| | Transitway | Transitway is the broadest class of regions which may be passed through as a path in instances of Translocation. Transitway includes land, air, and sea regions, and it includes both natural and artificial transitways. |