Precedence Tenure

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

The reified, time-scoped fact that one norm took precedence over another within a normative system over an interval — 'Tier 2 overrode X until v3.5' made sayable. The StandpointTenure idiom (Principle 10): carries its interval via gmeow:duringInterval (temporal module); a withdrawn precedence is kept with gmeow:displayable false, never deleted. Use only when adoption / revision of the precedence is itself worth modelling; the common case is flat gmeow:overrides.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:PrecedenceTenure 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 the reified form when the precedence held over an interval — its adoption, revision, or withdrawal — is itself the fact of interest, e.g. 'Tier 2 overrode X until v3.5'.

Avoid when

• Avoid it for the ordinary case (flat gmeow:overrides carries pairwise precedence more cheaply) and avoid deleting a withdrawn precedence — keep it with gmeow:displayable false (Principle 10).

How to use

• Mint the tenure, name the prevailing and yielding norms with gmeow:precedenceHigher/precedenceLower, scope it with gmeow:precedenceScope, and carry its interval via the inherited gmeow:duringInterval.

Examples

• ex:pt1 a gmeow:PrecedenceTenure; gmeow:precedenceHigher ex:tier2; gmeow:precedenceLower ex:xN; gmeow:precedenceScope ex:gdpr.