Condition

• CURIE: gmeow:Condition
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/Condition
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/norms
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A describable circumstance — the trigger of a conditional norm, the activation context of a persona, the antecedent of a causal link (risk design). The canonical form is PROSE (gmeow:conditionText, mandatory by SHACL); machine formalizations attach via gmeow:formalizedAs, and each formalization is a claim of equivalence to the prose, challengeable through the statement layer. Whether the condition held at some moment is a gmeow:ConditionEvaluation — a vantage-indexed Observation — never a graph entailment. The ontology stores conditions; it never executes them (Principle 12).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:InformationObject

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Condition as a specialized kind of gmeow:InformationObject. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:InformationObject

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for a describable circumstance — a norm's trigger, a persona's activation context, a causal antecedent — whose canonical form is prose and whose holding is observed, never entailed.

Avoid when

• Avoid executing or evaluating a condition during validation (the ontology stores conditions, never runs them — Principle 12) and avoid treating an attached formalization as the canonical form; the prose is canonical.

How to use

• Mint the condition with mandatory gmeow:conditionText prose, attach machine formalizations via gmeow:formalizedAs (each a challengeable equivalence claim), and record whether it held as a gmeow:ConditionEvaluation.

Examples

• ex:c1 a gmeow:Condition; gmeow:conditionText "the data subject has requested erasure".