Common Core Ontologies

has_function

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

The relation has function holds between a material entity and a function it bears. For an artifact the function is the purpose it was designed to realise.

In a statement this reads as bfo:Material Entity has_function bfo:Function. The property links a subject in its domain to a value in its range.

Where it sits in the suite

has function 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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