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SBVR11 — Note for individual concept does not follow from the Definition

  • Key: SBVR11-82
  • Legacy Issue Number: 12956
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Thematix Partners LLC ( Mr. Edward J. Barkmeyer)
  • Summary:

    Clause 8.1.1

    Concept: individual concept

    The Definition of 'individual concept' is:
    concept that corresponds to only one object [thing]

    The Note says:
    "each referring individual concept has exactly one and the same instance in all possible worlds"

    "Corresponds to only one object" (in any possible world) is not at all the same thing as "corresponds to exactly one and the same object in all possible worlds". One of the definition and the Note should be corrected. I would prefer changing the definition to match the note.

    Note also that changing the definition means that "the President of the United States" is an 'individual concept' that denotes an office, but not a person. And the concept "the person who is President of the United States" is not an 'individual concept'.

  • Reported: SBVR 1.0 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — SBVR 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change the definition to match the note

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT