damaging (Damaging)

The Class of Processes where the agent brings about a situation where the patient no longer functions normally or as intended.

Ontology

SUMO / PROCESSES

Superclass(es)

entity

physical

process

internal change

damaging

Subclass(es)

injuring destruction

Coordinate term(s)

biological process chemical process creation quantity change state change surface change

Related WordNet synsets

damage, harm, hurt, scathe: the act of damaging something or someone
damage: inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
damaged: harmed or injured or spoiled; "I wont't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings"
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious: (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
detrimentally, harmfully, noxiously: in a detrimental manner

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Axioms (6)

inj is an instance of injuring if and only if inj is an instance of damaging and organism is a patient of inj.

(<=>
      (instance ?INJ Injuring)
      (and
            (instance ?INJ Damaging)
            (patient ?INJ Organism)))

If repair is an instance of repairing and obj is a patient of repair, then there exists damaging damage so that obj is a patient of damage and "the time of existence of damage" happens earlier than "the time of existence of repair".

(=>
      (and
            (instance ?REPAIR Repairing)
            (patient ?REPAIR ?OBJ))
      (exists
            (?DAMAGE)
            (and
                  (instance ?DAMAGE Damaging)
                  (patient ?DAMAGE ?OBJ)
                  (earlier
                        (WhenFn ?DAMAGE)
                        (WhenFn ?REPAIR)))))

damaging is disjoint from repairing.

(disjoint Damaging Repairing)

If weapon is an instance of weapon, then weapon is capable to do damaging in role instrument.

(=>
      (instance ?WEAPON Weapon)
      (capability Damaging instrument ?WEAPON))

If weapon is an instance of weapon, then weapon has purpose "there exist damaging dest,patient so that patient is a patient of dest and

patient is an instance of stationary artifact
patient is an instance of animal
there exists animal animal so that animal lives in patient

(=>
      (instance ?WEAPON Weapon)
      (hasPurpose
            ?WEAPON
            (exists
                  (?DEST ?PATIENT)
                  (and
                        (instance ?DEST Damaging)
                        (patient ?DEST ?PATIENT)
                        (or
                              (instance ?PATIENT StationaryArtifact)
                              (instance ?PATIENT Animal)
                              (exists
                                    (?ANIMAL)
                                    (and
                                          (instance ?ANIMAL Animal)
                                          (inhabits ?ANIMAL ?PATIENT))))))))

If unbreakable is an attribute of obj, then there doesn't exist damaging damage so that obj is a patient of damage.

(=>
      (attribute ?OBJ Unbreakable)
      (not
            (exists
                  (?DAMAGE)
                  (and
                        (instance ?DAMAGE Damaging)
                        (patient ?DAMAGE ?OBJ)))))