Objektis

Objektis is a term used in contemporary philosophy and information science to denote discrete units that represent objects within a modeled world. They function as the basic units in ontologies, simulations, and perceptual analyses, serving as referents for properties, relations, and processes.

Etymology: The word objektis derives from the general term object with a suffix common in academic coinages. The form is used across multilingual texts to discuss entities without committing to a single natural-language term.

Core concepts: An objektis has an identity criterion, a set of properties, and a network of relations to other objektis. Some theories treat objektis as mind-dependent constructions, while others argue they can exist independently of observers, albeit with content shaped by perception and language.

Applications and debates: Objektis are used in ontology engineering, knowledge graphs, and cognitive modeling to formalize how agents classify and reason about entities. For example, in a knowledge graph, Car123 would be an objektis with properties such as color and model. Debates concern the status of objektis (real vs. constructed) and how varying granularity affects modeling and interoperability.

Variants and related terms: In some traditions, objektis are contrasted with events, processes, and relations. Related ideas include objects, exemplars, instances, and types.