An ontological analysis of risk in Basic Formal Ontology

Federico Donato, Adrien Barton
7/26/2025
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The paper explores the nature of risk, providing a characterization using the categories of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). It argues that the category Risk is a subclass of BFO:Role, contrasting it with a similar view classifying Risk as a subclass of BFO:Disposition. This modeling choice is applied on one example of risk, which represents objects, processes (both physical and mental) and their interrelations, then generalizing from the instances in the example to obtain an overall analysis of risk, making explicit what are the sufficient conditions for being a risk. Plausible necessary conditions are also mentioned for future work. Index Terms: ontology, risk, BFO, role, disposition

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@article{donato2025ontological,
  title  = {An ontological analysis of risk in Basic Formal Ontology},
  author = {Federico Donato and Adrien Barton},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2507.21171},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21171v1}
}

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