]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. Prayer prayer prayers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer blessing Blessing The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. Prayer prayer Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViOtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralizedTransfer</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVifB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationTransferEvent</a> is an event in which information is transferred from a source (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV5PA5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">informationOrigin</a>) to one or more destinations (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVipxZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">informationDestination</a>), where the source and the various destinations are either intelligent agents or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkNufpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingThing</a>s (IBTs). Examples include reading a book (transfer of information from the book to the reader), saying something to someone (transfer of information from the speaker to the listener), machine translation (transfer of information from an encoded IBT in the source language to an encoded IBT in the target language), OCR scanning (transfer of information from a visual information source to another IBT in a different format), carving initials in a tree (transfer of information from an agent to an IBT), and making a speech (transfer of information from an agent to other agents). See also the specialization <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvucXhJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationTransferPhysicalEvent</a>. InformationTransferEvent information transfer ritual Ritual A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkKMU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CulturalActivity</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViPO5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialOccurrence</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> is a highly stylized or formalized action (or series of actions) performed by a person or group of persons. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> are usually performed with some solemnity. Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjq_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ceremony</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj9YJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Funeral</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjMDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Parade</a>. The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. Prayer prayer The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. Prayer prayer The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. Prayer prayer