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Agent |
| Definitions |
An agent is not necessarily human. In fact, the concept of agent has been generalised to encompass both intentional and unintentional acts primarily to take into account usage of the term in chemistry (e.g., chemical agent that intiitate a reaction), inline also with the most recent development in the philosophical debate. A participant that is the driver of a process. EquivalentTo: IntentionalAgent or UnintentionalAgent |
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https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_2480b72b_db8d_460f_9a5f_c2912f979046 |
| comment |
An agent is not necessarily human. In fact, the concept of agent has been generalised to encompass both intentional and unintentional acts primarily to take into account usage of the term in chemistry (e.g., chemical agent that intiitate a reaction), inline also with the most recent development in the philosophical debate. A participant that is the driver of a process. EquivalentTo: IntentionalAgent or UnintentionalAgent |
| EMMO_8a137e9f_579c_4e28_baca_e8980eb0c3db |
EquivalentTo: IntentionalAgent or UnintentionalAgent |
| EMMO_967080e5_2f42_4eb2_a3a9_c58143e835f9 |
A participant that is the driver of a process. |
| EMMO_c7b62dd7_063a_4c2a_8504_42f7264ba83f |
An agent is not necessarily human. In fact, the concept of agent has been generalised to encompass both intentional and unintentional acts primarily to take into account usage of the term in chemistry (e.g., chemical agent that intiitate a reaction), inline also with the most recent development in the philosophical debate. |
| example |
A catalyst. A bus driver. A substance that is initiating a reaction that would not occur without its presence. |
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EMMO_2480b72b_db8d_460f_9a5f_c2912f979046 emmo:EMMO_2480b72b_db8d_460f_9a5f_c2912f979046 |
| prefLabel |
Agent |
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The agent concept identifies the parts of a process that are also its drivers. An agent part has an active role with respect to any other generic part, meaning that is involved in the causal chain that characterize the process. An agent is a participant, meaning that is qualifiable as an object. As for all holistic relations, there is a level of subjectivity in drawing whole-role relations, so that the identification of an agent within a process is not fully axiomatizable. What is axiomatically expressible is that an agent requires to be part of a process (i.e., an agent exists only within a process) but a process may not require an agent to exist (qualified role). Agentless processes may have a distributed causality chain so that the agency is exerted collectively and there is no motivation to draw an holistic connection between the whole and some parts. For example, the breaking of a nail can be caused by an agent such as an hammer, or by the rusting process which is not a participant as required by the agent definition. This concept covers both intentional and non intentional agency. |
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https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_cede9297_c60d_4487_9207_62ac963202b5 https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_4f226cf3_6d02_4d35_8566_a9e641bc6ff3 |
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