Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 5, 2026

Exploring the Role of Deontic Reasoning and World Knowledge in Wason´s Selection Task
Published on: July 22, 2025
History in the Basic Formal Ontology
Werner Ceusters1,2, Alan Ruttenberg2
1University at Buffalo, 77 Goodell street, Buffalo NY 14203, USA.
None:
The Basic Formal Ontology's (BFO) current approach to 'history', in contradistinction to how the referent of 'history' has been described in scholarly work upon which the BFO is built, is quite reductionist: it allows only material entities to have a history, and what contributes to their histories is restricted to what takes place in the spatiotemporal region 'occupied by' the material parts. This has as one consequence that certain processes in which a material entity participates are not part of its history. In addition, the BFO is silent about whether instances of other types of continuants have a 'history'. We explore how this situation came to be and propose two alternative versions for 'history' inclusive to all sorts of continuants currently recognized by the BFO.
More Related Videos
05:15The Spatial Memory Game: Testing the Relationship Between Spatial Language, Object Knowledge, and Spatial Cognition
Published on: February 19, 2018
07:35A Knowledge Graph Approach to Elucidate the Role of Organellar Pathways in Disease via Biomedical Reports
Published on: October 13, 2023
Related Concept Videos
What is Evolutionary History?
Schemata
Two types of schemata are:
Histone Modification
Histone Modification
Acetylation
The enzyme histone acetyltransferase adds acetyl group to the histones. Another enzyme, histone...
Criteria for Causality: Bradford Hill Criteria - I
Criteria for Causality: Bradford Hill Criteria - II