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Re: [uom-ontology-std] What is mass?

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From: Joe Collins <joseph.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:05:00 -0400
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PH> ... but we ought to provide some axioms relating our notions
  > to appropriate higher-level categories, if only in order to provide
  > a guide to those whose task it is to write such axioms. Can people
  > use 'mass' as a function on physical objects, for example?    (01)


YES.
"Mass" can be interpreted as a function applied to a physical object.
An algorithm that evaluates this function is a weighing procedure.    (02)

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