| Definition: An independent continuant that is maximally self-connected and self-contained, possessing an internal unity and instantiating a natural kind, that maintains identity through time while gaining and losing qualities or parts and that exists in its entirety at any moment in which it exists at all. Independent continuants are self-connected and maintain their identity through time while gaining and losing qualities or parts and exist in their entirety at any moment in which they exist at all. |
| Examples: an organism, a heart, a symphony orchestra, a chair, the bottom right portion of a human torso, a leg |
| •owl:Thing |
| •entity |
| •continuant |
| •independent_continuant |
| •object |