DEFINITION DISJOINT SUBTYPES CONTENT MANAGEMENT

FAMILY OF CONCEPTS - Structural Partition of Ordered Entity


Categorized Class  Ordered Entity
 Ordered Entity is a class whose sub-types are classifed by a Class of Ordered Entity: It is the power instance of Class of Ordered Entity.
Examples:

DISJOINT SUBTYPES of 'Ordered Entity'


NameDescription
  First Order Class
 First Order Class is the Meta-Class of all subclasses of First Order Entity.
Each instance of  First Order Class is a Class of Entity, each of whose instances is necessarily a First Order Entity.
 First Order Classes are the most common type of classes.
Examples:
. Buildings
. Mountains
. Deliveries
. Organizations
. Persons
  Second Order Class
 Second Order Class is the Meta-Class of all subclasses of First Order Class.
Each instance of  Second Order Class is a class, each of whose instances is a First Order Class.
First Order Class is an instance of  Second Order Class since, by definition, all of its instances are First Order Classes.
Examples:
1) Car-Brand (with instances such as VolkswagenCar and HondaCar),
2) AnimalSpecies (with instances such as GreyWolf and Dodo),
3) USArmyRank.