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Act of Collision is a subclass of Planned Act: Move to Unplanned Act or disambiguate? #923

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@MokaZen108

Act of Collision (https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001053) is defined as: "An Act of Location Change involving the movement of one object such that it collides with another object," and Act of Location Change (https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000065) is defined as: "An Act of Motion in which the location of some Object is changed by some Agent.", and is a subclass of Planned Act (https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000228), which is defined as: "An Act in which at least one Agent plays a causative role and which is prescribed by some Prescriptive Information Content Entity held by at least one of the Agents."

The issue is that not all Acts of Collision are prescribed by some Prescriptive Information Content Entity, and are usually prescribed against. Many Acts of Collision are unintentional, such as a collision in a race. This better fits as a subclass of Unplanned Act (https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000546): "An Act in which at least one Agent plays a causative role and which is not prescribed by some Objective held by any of the Agents," as vehicle operators typically have the objective of avoiding a collision.

Otherwise, I propose disambiguating between unintentional acts of collision, and intentional ones, such as those in destruction derbies or in vehicle safety tests. The proposed definitions would be:

Act of Accidental Collision: "An Act of Location Change involving the movement of one object such that it collides with another object which is not prescribed by some Objective held by any of the Agents"

Act of Intentional Collision: "An Act of Location Change involving the movement of one object such that it collides with another object, which is prescribed by some Prescriptive Information Content Entity held by at least one of the Agents."

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