suspends judgement on

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

An agent neither believes nor disbelieves a proposition — a third, agnostic doxastic stance (withholding), distinct from doubt (a leaning) and from silence (no recorded attitude). Range OPEN. Non-functional.

Structure

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

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:suspendsJudgementOn 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 an explicit agnostic stance — the agent has considered the proposition and withholds, neither believing nor disbelieving it — so suspension is distinguishable from mere silence (no recorded attitude).

Avoid when

• Avoid for a directional leaning against the proposition (use gmeow:doubts) and for an unexamined gap where the agent simply has no recorded view; suspension is a held stance, never an absence and never a factive knowledge verdict about the proposition's truth.

How to use

• Point the agent at the proposition or reified statement to assert the withholding explicitly; keep it distinct from doubt and from silence, and let it coexist with other agents' attitudes on the same proposition (it is non-functional).

Examples

• ex:alice gmeow:suspendsJudgementOn ex:earthIsRound.