Sensory Perception

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

A standpoint-indexed perceived value about a SensoryEnvironment — a subjective claim made by a perceiver (vantage) about ambient conditions (observedFeature), yielding a result in a MentalReferenceFrame. A SensoryPerception is a StandpointClaim specialised to the sensory domain: the vantage is the perceiver, the observedFeature is the SensoryEnvironment, and the observationResult is the perceived value (a ScalarQuantity, categorical individual, or structured percept descriptor). Competing perceptions coexist without collapse (Principle 9); superseded perceptions are suppressed, never deleted (Principle 10).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:StandpointClaim

Practical Pattern

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

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Measured Vs Perceived

• Source: slices/extensions/sensory-environment/examples/measured-vs-perceived.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-sensory-environment-examples-measured-vs-perceived

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: measured ≠ perceived (, P11/P12). A gmeow:SensoryEnvironment
# at a location and instant carries TWO kinds of condition that GMEOW refuses to
# conflate: a gmeow:hasMeasuredCondition (a gmeow:CoordinateMatrix — instrument
# data, every value in an explicit reference frame) and a gmeow:hasPerceivedCondition
# (a gmeow:SensoryPerception — how an observer experienced it, per
# gmeow:perceptionModality). "23.5 °C on the grid" and "it felt warm" are
# different claims about the same room: one objective and framed, one subjective.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/sensory-environment/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

ex:feltWarm a gmeow:SensoryPerception ;
    gmeow:perceptionModality gmeow:sensoryModalityThermal ;
    gmeow:vantage            ex:taster ;
    gmeow:observationMethod  gmeow:methodDirectObservation .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:StandpointClaim

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: bfo, sosa

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences