Common Core Ontologies

prescribes

Object property
https://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/prescribes

The relation prescribes holds between a directive information content entity and the entity or process it prescribes. A plan prescribes the process that would carry it out; a specification prescribes the qualities an artifact ought to have.

In a statement this reads as DirectiveInformationContentEntity prescribes Entity. The property links a subject in its domain to a value in its range.

Where it sits in the suite

prescribes is defined in the Common Core Ontologies, a mid-level suite that specialises the top-level categories of Basic Formal Ontology. It is released as part of the maintained, logically consistent CCO release and is reused across the connected ontology modules.

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