Ontology chart

The exception is the root which is a particular agent often labelled ‘society’ and located on the extreme left of an ontology chart.

If any other particular is present in an ontology chart it is recognised by the ‘#’ sign prefix and upper case letters.

Ontological dependency is a relationship known mathematically as a partial order set relation (poset).

They belong to the class of binary relations but they have three additional properties: reflexivity, anti-symmetry and transitivity.

Because ontology charts have a root that all affordances (realisations/things) are ultimately dependent upon for their existence, they are graphical representation of semi-lattices.

The case study used here to illustrate the transformation process is a slight adaptation of the case used by Bonacin (2004). [ 1 ]