continuant

Class
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002
Definition

An entity that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts.

Properties
Relationships
Asserted object-property edges to other entities. Logical class axioms such as owl:disjointWith are shown separately below.
isDefinedBy bfo.owl
Disjoint with
occurrent
From owl:disjointWith and owl:AllDisjointClasses membership; the listed classes are pairwise disjoint with this one.
@prefix bfo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_> . @prefix obo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . bfo:0000002 a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "continuant"@en ; rdfs:isDefinedBy obo:bfo.owl ; rdfs:subClassOf bfo:0000001 ; owl:disjointWith bfo:0000003 ; skos:definition "An entity that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts."@en .
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Last Updated
2026-07-01 13:21