Intentional Moment

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

The umbrella category of all goal-directed moments — UFO-C's intentional moment, spanning the intrinsic branch (gmeow:IntentionalMode: desires and intentions inhering in one agent) and the social branch (gmeow:Commitment: a relator toward other agents). Exists as a NAMED class so that gmeow:intentionGoal and gmeow:motivates carry a generator-visible domain instead of an anonymous union (the schema surface — LinkML, GraphQL, TypeScript — projects properties from named domains only). Never instantiated directly.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity

Practical Pattern

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

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use only as the generator-visible domain for properties shared across both branches (gmeow:intentionGoal, gmeow:motivates) and to query desires, intentions, and commitments uniformly.

Avoid when

• Avoid instantiating it directly — type the moment as a Desire, Intention, or Commitment; the abstract umbrella exists for the schema surface, not for data.

How to use

• Let concrete moments inherit it; reach for the umbrella name only when defining or querying a property that ranges over the whole intentional family rather than one branch.

Examples

• ex:settledPlan a gmeow:Intention; gmeow:intentionGoal ex:reachOrbit. # an IntentionalMoment by inheritance