perception modality

The sensory modality of a SensoryPerception — the channel through which the perception was made.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:SensoryPerception -> gmeow:SensoryModality; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:perceptionModality from gmeow:SensoryPerception to gmeow:SensoryModality 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.

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:SensoryPerception, gmeow:SensoryModality