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Artifactual Functions: A Dual, Realizable-Based View
Auteur(s)
Fumiaki Toyoshima
Universite de Neuchatel
Adrien Barton
IRIT, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Cr Rose Dieng-Kuntz, 31400 Toulouse, France
Date de parution
2024
In
Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2024), Workshop on Foundational Ontology (Foust), Jul 2024, Enschede, France. Hal-04859460
Vol.
July 2024
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1
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15
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Résumé
In this paper we provide an ontological analysis of so-called “artifactual functions” by deploying a realizable-centered approach to artifacts which we have recently developed within the framework of the upper ontology Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). We argue that, insofar as material artifacts are concerned, the term “artifactual function” can refer to at least two kinds of realizable entities: novel intentional dispositions and usefactual realized entities. They inhere, respectively, in what we previously called “canonical artifacts” and “usefacts”. We show how this approach can help to clarify functions in BFO, whose current elucidation includes reference to the term “artifact”. In our framework, having an artifactual function implies being an artifact, but not vice versa; in other words, there are artifacts that lack an artifactual function.
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https://web1.unine.ch/anontologyofproductsandbyproducts/
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