Intention Tenure

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

The reified, time-scoped fact that an agent held an intentional mode over an interval — a goal adopted in January and abandoned in June is an opened-then-closed tenure, never a deletion (Principle 10). The StandpointTenure idiom applied to teleology: use only when adoption / revision is itself worth modelling; the common case is a bare gmeow:hasGoal with validFrom / validUntil on the statement. Carries its interval via gmeow:duringInterval (temporal module); a withdrawn tenure is kept with gmeow:displayable false.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Practical Pattern

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

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Usage Advice

Use when

Use as the reified half of the gmeow:hasGoal ↔ gmeow:IntentionTenure pair: when adoption, revision, or abandonment of an intrinsic mode over an interval is itself the fact of interest, so the tenure can be opened and closed rather than mutated.

Avoid when

Avoid for the 80% case where an agent simply holds a goal (use the flat gmeow:hasGoal with validFrom / validUntil) and for commitment tenure (a Commitment relator carries its own period by construction); never delete an abandoned tenure — close it and set gmeow:displayable false (Principle 10).

How to use

Mint one IntentionTenure per (agent, mode) holding, bind gmeow:tenureAgent and gmeow:tenureIntention, scope it with gmeow:duringInterval; record withdrawal by closing the interval and suppressing with gmeow:displayable false rather than removing the triple.

Examples

ex:resolveTenure a gmeow:IntentionTenure; gmeow:tenureAgent ex:lillith; gmeow:tenureIntention ex:planToShip; gmeow:duringInterval ex:firstHalfYear.