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General Formal Ontology (GFO)

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14.10 Ontical Connectedness

Presentials are connected by spatio-temporal and causal relationhips, which give rise to persistants. The relation connects and by an integrated system of such relationships. It is assumed that and are processes or presentials. We believe that there are different relations of this kind. One interesting case of ontical connectedness is substrate-connectedness. Two material structures and are substrate-connected if they consist of the same amount of substrate. For example, a statue made of clay, considered at a certain time-boundary, is substrate-connected with the material structure that results from a crash, which destroys .