#Gordian_knot  an intricate knot tied by King Gordius of Phrygia and cut with his sword by Alexander the Great after hearing that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia
  supertype:  knot  any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
     supertype:  holdfast__fastener__fastening  restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
        supertype:  restraint.device__constraint  a device that stops something from moving; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted"
           supertype:  device  an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"
              supertype:  instrumentality__instrumentation  an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end
                 supertype:  artifact__artefact  a man-made object taken as a whole
                    supertype:  created_thing__createdthing  e.g., entity or situation that results from a process; in WordNet, #creation_result is for entities while #resultant is for situation
                       supertype:  thing_playing_some_role  category to classify things according to roles/viewpoints; classification under this category is application-dependant
                          supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                    supertype:  physical_object__object  a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"
                       supertype:  non-agentive_physical_object__NAPO  e.g., a bottle
                          supertype:  physical_object__POB
                             supertype:  physical_entity__object  spatial entity made of matter
                                supertype:  physical_endurant__PED
                                   supertype:  spatial_object__spatialobject  object which as a direct spatial location, e.g., physical object, spatial region or shape
                                      supertype:  object__entity_with_spatial_feature  spatial object (space, location or physical object) or description medium/container (e.g., string, language, image); in a 4D ontology, an object is something whose spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into spatial parts roughly parallel to the time-axis
                                         supertype:  entity  something that can be "involved" in a situation
                                            supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                                         supertype:  physical__physical_thing  an entity that has a location in space-time; locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time; click here for more details on the identical category sowa#physical_thing
                                            supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                                      supertype:  partially_tangible__partiallytangible  A subcollection of cyc#SpatialThing-Localized and cyc#TemporalThing. Each instance of cyc#PartiallyTangible has a tangible (i.e. material) part and a temporal extent (i.e. it exists in time). It might or might not also have an intangible part. For example, a particular copy of a book is made of matter, has temporal extent, and also has an intangible part: the information content of the text markings on its pages.
                                         supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                                      supertype:  individual__particular___supertype_of_1st_order_types  all individuals (for concepts or relations) are implicitely or explicitely instance of that type
                                         supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                                   supertype:  endurant__ED
                                      supertype:  entity  something that can be "involved" in a situation
                                      supertype:  thing  an object seen from a 3D (or endurantist) perspective, i.e. where a spatial entity may have a time independent identity, as opposed for example to the 4D perspective where each spatial entity has an associated time frame; click here and here for details
                                         supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                                      supertype:  endurant_or_perdurant__ED_or_PD
                                         supertype:  quality_or_endurant_or_perdurant__Q_or_ED_or_PD
                                            supertype:  entity  a category from DOLCE or generalized by a category from DOLCE
                                               supertype:  individual__particular___supertype_of_1st_order_types  all individuals (for concepts or relations) are implicitely or explicitely instance of that type
                                   supertype:  PQ_or_PED_or_PR_or_PD
                                      supertype:  quality_or_endurant_or_perdurant__Q_or_ED_or_PD
                                supertype:  tangible  Something which is not intangible, something which is physical, made of matter. It does not matter whether things are real of imaginary. Therefore we consider Mickey Mouse's car and a hippogriff as  tangible things
                                   supertype:  temporal_thing  The collection of all things that have temporal extent or location, i.e. things about which one might sensibly ask When? . cyc#TemporalThing thus contains many kinds of things, including events, physical objects, agreements, and abstract pieces of time. Note that cyc#TimePoint is a specialization of cyc#TemporalThing, since time points have temporal location, although they arguably lack temporal extent. Abstract things that are timeless -- such as mathematical sets, attributes, and numbers -- are of course _not_ instances of cyc#TemporalThing.
                                      supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                    supertype:  whole_thing__wholething__whole__unit  an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the repairman simply replaced the unit"
                       supertype:  corpuscular_object__corpuscularobject__composite_entity__compositeentity___divisible_entity_with_discrete_parts  self_connected_object whose parts have properties that are not shared by the whole
                          supertype:  self_connected_object  object that does not consist of two or more disconnected parts
                             supertype:  object__entity_with_spatial_feature  spatial object (space, location or physical object) or description medium/container (e.g., string, language, image); in a 4D ontology, an object is something whose spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into spatial parts roughly parallel to the time-axis
                          supertype:  divisible_entity__divisibleentity  many classifications under this category are application-dependant
                             supertype:  entity  something that can be "involved" in a situation
                             supertype:  divisible_thing__divisiblething
                                supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type

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