Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries

By Achille C. Varzi, Barry Smith. 2000

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Individuals, Universals, Collections: On the Foundational Relations of Ontology (2004, background): “Many partitions consist of fiat parts [12] like the head, neck, torso, and limbs of a human body or the right and left hemispheres of a brain.”
A Unified Theory of Truth and Reference (2000, background): “Rather, it is a fiat boundary, the sort of boundary by which census tracts or postal districts are typically demarcated, and the latter are the result of a more or less arbitrary imposition (Smith 1995, Smith and Varzi 2000).”
SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology (2004, background): “Fiat parts are discussed in (Smith 1995; Smith and Varzi, 2000; Smith 2001b).”
Ontological considerations in GIScience (2005, background): “The boundaries in the geographic domain have been loosely ‘ontologised’ as fiat and bona fide boundaries (Smith and Varzi 2000, Smith and Mark 2001), but further research is needed to assess the comprehensive inclusion of all kinds of geographic boundaries within this categorization.”
Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis – Towards a new paradigm (2014, background): “Objects may exist as bona ﬁde objects or as ﬁat objects (Smith and Varzi, 2000), thus they exist without or with human appreciation (Castilla and Hay, 2008).”