Justification Ground

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

The class of things that can serve as a justification basis — an evidence span, an attestation, or a further doxastic state. Introduced as a named superclass so that schema projections can assign a single range to gmeow:justifiedBy instead of losing a blank-node owl:unionOf.

Structure

Subclass of: owl:Thing

Practical Pattern

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

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the range of gmeow:justifiedBy when projecting the ontology into schema languages that cannot consume a blank-node owl:unionOf.

Avoid when

• Avoid asserting it as an independent kind of entity; it is a schema-friendly union category whose instances are always EvidenceSpans, Attestations, or DoxasticStates.

How to use

• Let instances be typed as gmeow:EvidenceSpan, gmeow:Attestation, or gmeow:DoxasticState; the explicit subClassOf axioms make them gmeow:JustificationGrounds for downstream schemas.

Examples

• ex:aliceBelievesRound gmeow:justifiedBy ex:photoEvidence, ex:expertAttestation, ex:bobBelievesRound.