Justification Subject

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

The class of things that can carry justification or defeat relations — a doxastic state or a standpoint claim. Introduced as a named superclass so that schema projections (LinkML, TypeScript, GraphQL) can assign a single domain to gmeow:justifiedBy and gmeow:defeatedBy instead of losing a blank-node owl:unionOf.

Structure

Subclass of: owl:Thing

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:JustificationSubject 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 domain of gmeow:justifiedBy and gmeow:defeatedBy 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 DoxasticStates or StandpointClaims.

How to use

• Let instances be typed as gmeow:DoxasticState or gmeow:StandpointClaim; the explicit subClassOf axioms make them gmeow:JustificationSubjects for downstream schemas.

Examples

• ex:aliceBelievesRound a gmeow:DoxasticState; gmeow:justifiedBy ex:photoEvidence. ex:aliceRoundClaim a gmeow:StandpointClaim; gmeow:defeatedBy gmeow:justificationStatusGettier.