Package UFO.UFO-C

Class Summary

Action	Actions are intentional events, i.e., Events with the specific purpose of satisfying (the propositional content of) some Intention of an Agent (In this sense, an Action can be said to be caused by the Intention).
Action Contribution
Action Universal (Plan)
Agent	Agents are substantials capable of bearing special kinds of moments named Intentional Moments.
Appointment	An appointment is a commitment whose propositional content explicitly refers to a time interval.
Appointment Goal
Atomic Action
Atomic Action Universal
Atomic Commitment
Belief	Beliefs can be justified by situations in reality.
Change	A resource participation of r in a is a change iff there is at least a moment m such that ((m inheres in r in s1 and m does not inhere in r in s2) OR (m does not inhere in r in s1 and m inheres in r in s2)) and (there is at least one action contribution ac that is also part of a and such that s2 satisfies the propositional content of ac);
Closed Appointment	A Closed Appointment is a Closed Commitment whose propositional content explicitly refers to a time interval.
Closed Commitment
Closed Commitment Universal
Collective Social Agent
Commitment
Commitment Universal
Communicative Act	Communicative Acts (special kinds of Actions) can be used to create Social Moments.
Complex Action
Complex Action Universal
Complex Closed Appointment	A Complex Closed Appointment is based on a Complex Action Univer- sal.
Complex Closed Commitment
Complex Commitment
Creation	A resource participation of r in ac is a creation iff (r is not present in s1) and (r is present in s2) and (there is at least one action contribution ac that is also part of a and such that s2 satisfies the propositional content of ac);
Delegation
Delegatum
Desire	A Desire expresses a will of an Agent towards a State of Affairs in reality (e.g., a Desire that Brazil wins the Next World Cup),
Goal	A Goal is the propositional content of an intention.
Institutional Agent	When Social Agents are integral wholes formed by multiple agents playing different roles they are further classified as Institutional Agents.
Intention (Internal Commitment)	Intentions are desired state of affairs for which the agent commits at pursuing (an intention is an internal commitment) (e.g., the Intention of going to a beach resort for the next summer break).
Intentional Moment	Intention Moment (Intentionality) should be understood in a much broader context than the notion of “intending something”, but as the capacity of some properties of certain individuals to refer to possible situations of reality.
Interaction
Internal Closed Commitment Universal
Internal Commitment Universal
Mental Moment
Normative Description	A Normative Description defines one or more rules/norms recognized by at least one Social Agent and that can define Nominal Universals such as Social Moment Universals (e.g., social commitment types), Social Objects (the crown of the king of Spain) and Social Roles such as president, prime minister, PhD candidate or pedestrian.
Open Commitment
Physical Agent	Physical Agents (e.g., a person, a dog).
Physical Object	Physical Objects (e.g., cars, rocks and threes).
Plan Description
Resource	Resource is an Object that participates in an Action.
Resource Participation	A Resource Participation in an Action is the intended use, modification, termination or creation of an object in that action.
Self Appointment
Social Agent	Social Agents (e.g., an organization, a society) are created by Communicative Acts.
Social Appointment
Social Claim
Social Commitment
Social Moment	Social Moments are types of intentional moments that are created by the exchange of communicative acts and the consequences of these exchanges (e.g., goal adoption, delegation).
Social Object	Social Objects (e.g., a currency, a language, the Brazilian constitution).
Social Relator	A Social Relator is an example of a relator composed of two or more pairs of associated commitments/claims (Social Moments).
Social Role	Social Roles are special types of Roles (i.e.
Social Role Mixin
Society
Termination	A resource participation of r in a is a termination iff (r is present in s1) and (r is not present in s2) and (there is at least one action contribution ac that is also part of a and such that s2 satisfies the propositional content of ac);
Usage	A resource participation which is not any of the three modes of participation (creation, termination and change) is a usage participation.