SUO: RE: Organization
Ian
You state:
"My new proposal is to cleanly separate the notions of agency and group.
Rather than make 'Organization' a subclass of 'Group', I think we should
make it a direct subclass of 'Agent', where it will be understood as a
class of legal entities with certain rights, responsibilities,
intentionality, etc. We should also, I think, remove the subclass link
between 'Group' and 'Agent', because there are groups of animals and humans
that do not exhibit agency of any sort, e.g. a group of cows grazing. We
can then use a new function, defined as follows, to relate 'Groups' to
'Agents'."
and then go on to say:
"In some cases, the 'Agent' assigned will be identical to the group, e.g. a
flock of geese flying northward.".
How do you reconcile "where it will be understood as a class of legal
entities" with "a flock of geese" in the general case (i.e. wild geese
rather than my friend Paul's flock of geese)?
Regards
Chris Angus