accepts

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

An agent pragmatically accepts a proposition — takes it on as a working premise for reasoning or action — WITHOUT thereby believing it true. Acceptance is the stance behind 'assume for the sake of argument' and policy defaults; it entails NEITHER belief NOR truth, and is deliberately not a subproperty of gmeow:believes. Range OPEN. Non-functional. Most prior ontologies conflate acceptance with belief; GMEOW keeps them distinct (Principle 1).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> ?

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:accepts from gmeow:Agent to ? when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

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

Belief And Knowledge

• Source: slices/core/epistemics/examples/belief-and-knowledge.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-epistemics-examples-belief-and-knowledge

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://example.org/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .



ex:ada a gmeow:Agent ;
    gmeow:knowsThat            ex:earthOrbitsSun ;   # entails gmeow:believes ex:earthOrbitsSun
    gmeow:believes            ex:coffeeIsHealthy ;
    gmeow:accepts             ex:nullHypothesis ;   # a working premise — NOT believed
    gmeow:suspendsJudgementOn ex:lifeOnEuropa .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record a pragmatic stance — a premise taken on for argument, a policy default, an 'assume for the sake of argument' — that the agent works from WITHOUT thereby believing it true.

Avoid when

• Avoid using it where the agent genuinely holds the proposition true (use gmeow:believes — acceptance is deliberately not a subproperty of belief and entails neither belief nor truth) and never read it as a factive knowledge verdict; it is the working-premise stance, not a held belief.

How to use

• Point the agent at the proposition or reified statement it works from; keep gmeow:accepts strictly separate from gmeow:believes so the projection layer never silently promotes an accepted premise to a believed or known one (Principle 1).

Scope notes

• accepts is not a subproperty of believes and entails no truth: a premise accepted for argument is neither believed nor asserted true.

Examples

• ex:alice gmeow:accepts ex:earthIsRound.