better phrasing, 'about a particular thing that is known categorically'

Eg Sales Record about 'Sale Event'



On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 6:53 PM George Bruseker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Recently work is on-going on a new property 'represents thing of type'
> which is distinct from 'represents' (again that particular vs categorical
> distinction).
>
> https://cidoc-crm.org/Issue/ID-476-pxx-represents-entity-of-type
>
> I am confronted with cases of an information object being about not a
> particular thing but a category of thing... in my case event types but I
> guess it could be object types. Of course the existing 'about' property is
> sufficient but it doesn't allow to differentiate that it is not just a type
> but about an as yet unknown X which was of type Y... It seems to me similar
> to the other new property we are working on already.
>
> Does anybody else have cases like this? Any interest in a new parallel
> property like that OR a solution that requires no new properties but also
> doesn't require semantic back flips to understand?
>
> Best,
>
> George
>
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