the Pattern Logic Primitives

From the bottom-up an ontology consists of pure concepts or conceptualizations of actual things.  

• When a concept stands alone as a pure concept, then we model it as a Unit trickle (SEH**) which is an assertion of its own self-existence.  
• When a cocnept is a conceptualization of something actual we model it as an Idea trickle (SEH||) which is dependent upon its equivalent manifest entity.
• When the concept is the bottom concept, then we model it as a Nothing trickle (SEH*-).
• It is often useful in ontological modeling to use "blank nodes" to represent unspecified or unknown concepts or classes.  This is the meaning, and subsequently the ontological purpose, of an Anything trickle (SEH--).

From the top-down an ontology consists of the classes by which individuals are  grouped.

•  While the ontology class is meant to predicate individuals, as a philosophical universal it is predicative of nothing in itself and essentially arbitrary. Therefore, it is modeled as the Something trickle (SEH-*) .
• Many ontology classes are not conceptually independent, but rather represent sub-ordinate classes, and in the direct case, the Succession trickle (SEH\-) insures that the sub-class it instantiates will never super-ordinate its one dependency on its super class (see alternate multiple inheritance approach below).
• A useful feature in ontology modeling is the ability to declare equivalent classes.  The Twin trickle (SEH++) means that it is equivalent to some other class.
• A similarly useful feature in ontology modeling is the ability to declare disjoint classes.  the Else trickle (SEH-\) means that a class can be established entirely by the fact that it has no overlap with some existing class.

From the inside-out an ontology consists of relations between concepts and classes or sometimes even between classes.

• The relation of assignment of a concept to a class (counter-predication) is one of the fundamental relations of any ontology and the  pattern logic interpretation of the Inclusion trickle (SEH\\) does precisely that.
• In an ontology supporting multiple inheritance (a sub-class having multiple super-classes) this feature is also handled relationally by the Inclusion trickle (SEH\\) but in an arrangement of predication wherein the super-class is said-of the sub-class.
• A relation that expresses conceptually that two manifest entities are really one and the same is the ontological meaning of the Equation trickle (SEH==).

Attributes establish the outside-in "dressing up" of classes and concepts with "properties" or "attributes".

• The direct form of predication found in the Container trickle (SEH\*) represents the truth that attributes are always established to predicate, or "be said of" the concept or class which they reference.
• Similar yet distinguishable from equality between classes is the equality between attributes as expressed by the Definition trickle (SEH*\).