Goal

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

A described state of affairs that an agent may want, intend, or commit to bring about — the propositional content of the intentional modes, existing by social convention like every description (a gmeow:SocialObject). A goal asserts nothing and prescribes nothing by itself: it is satisfied by situations (gmeow:satisfiedBy), held by agents (gmeow:hasGoal or the reified modes), and partly defined by its named shadow (gmeow:counterGoal). Whether a given situation satisfies the goal is a vantage-indexed claim (Principle 9).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:SocialObject

Practical Pattern

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

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Goal And Intention

Source: slices/core/teleology/examples/goal-and-intention.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-teleology-examples-goal-and-intention

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: goals, intentions, and commitments. GMEOW separates the
# intentional moments gUFO keeps distinct: a gmeow:Goal is the SocialObject an
# agent aims at (gmeow:hasGoal); a gmeow:Intention is an intentional MODE borne by
# an agent that aims at that goal (gmeow:intentionGoal) and MOTIVATES concrete
# action (gmeow:motivates → an Event); a gmeow:Commitment is a relator binding a
# committed agent to a beneficiary. The desire-to / intend-to / commit-to layers
# are not collapsed — each is its own first-class moment.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/teleology/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- The goal: a social object the agent aims at.
ex:degreeGoal a gmeow:Goal ; rdfs:label "Earn a master's degree"@en .

Grounded Claim

Source: slices/core/ai/examples/grounded-claim.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-ai-examples-grounded-claim

ex:goal-answer-faithfully a gmeow:Goal ;
    rdfs:label "answer facilities questions faithfully to the handbook"@en .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:SocialObject

Usage Advice

Use when

Use to name the propositional content an agent may want, intend, or commit to — the shared target that the intentional modes and the flat gmeow:hasGoal point at, and the thing a situation can satisfy.

Avoid when

Avoid for the agent's holding of the goal (that is gmeow:hasGoal or a Desire/Intention/Commitment) and for prescriptive force — a Goal prescribes nothing; obligatory conduct arrives via the norms extension, never on the Goal itself.

How to use

Mint one Goal individual and share it across every agent and mode aiming at it; attach gmeow:counterGoal for constitutive opposition and gmeow:satisfiedBy for achieving situations, recording disputed satisfaction as coexisting gmeow:accordingTo claims rather than a global verdict.

Examples

ex:reachOrbit a gmeow:Goal; gmeow:counterGoal ex:scrubLaunch; gmeow:satisfiedBy ex:firstStableOrbit.