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whole_life_individual

A <whole_life_individual> is a <possible_individual> that is a member of a <class_of_individual>, and is not a temporal part of any other <possible_individual> that is also a member of the same <class_of_individual>. A <whole_life_individual> includes its past and future.
NOTE A possible future temporal part of the <whole_life_individual> is a <possible_individual> that is related to the <whole_life_individual> by a <temporal_whole_part> relation.
EXAMPLE 1 A plastic cup (bounded by its creation and destruction <event>s) can be represented by an instance of <whole_life_individual>. The cup whilst it stands on this table is a temporal part of this <whole_life_individual>.
EXAMPLE 2 The universe for all time is a <whole_life_individual>.

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY whole_life_individual
SUBTYPE OF ( possible_individual);
END_ENTITY;

References (1):

Name Type Referred through Express-G
possible_individual Entity
Subtype
Diagram 6

Inheritance graph

ENTITY whole_life_individual;
ENTITY thing;
id  :  STRING;
record_copy_created  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
record_created  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
record_creator  :  OPTIONAL possible_individual;
record_logically_deleted  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
why_deleted  :  OPTIONAL class_of_information_representation;
ENTITY possible_individual;
ENTITY whole_life_individual;
END_ENTITY;