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Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. masquerading deceiving <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a> is the collection of events in which an agent pretends to be someone other than who he or she really is, and does so with the intent to deceive someone. The deception, in the case of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a> specifically involves the identity of the perpertrator, which is what makes this collection more specialized than the collection, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>. Masquerading-Deceiving http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_%28TV_series%29 Masquerading-Deceiving <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a> is the collection of events in which an agent pretends to be someone other than who he or she really is, and does so with the intent to deceive someone. The deception, in the case of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a> specifically involves the identity of the perpertrator, which is what makes this collection more specialized than the collection, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>. masquerading deceiving Masquerading This is the collection of events in which a person pretends to be someone or something other than himself, in some context other than that of a dramatic performance. The purpose of the pretense may be entertainment, however, as in the case of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpwYrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading</a> on <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjgHpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Halloween</a>, or for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv_JBMpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MardiGras</a> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv7rVhJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MasqueradingAtASocialGathering</a>). On the other hand, instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpwYrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading</a> also include deliberately deceitful acts such as those that a con-artist might engage in in order to defraud someone (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a>). <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpwYrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading</a> is distinct from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwEAJu5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DramaticActing</a>, which is the collection of events in which a person portrays someone or something other than himself in the context of a dramatic performance (i.e., in a theatre, in front of an audience...). masquerading Masquerading-Deceiving <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a> is the collection of events in which an agent pretends to be someone other than who he or she really is, and does so with the intent to deceive someone. The deception, in the case of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a> specifically involves the identity of the perpertrator, which is what makes this collection more specialized than the collection, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>. masquerading deceiving attempt to perform deceiving (AttemptingFn Deceiving) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">The</a> collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVieP5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PurposefulAction</a> which are conducted specifically for the purpose of deceiving some agent. In the case of (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwBdWmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AttemptingFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>), it is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViA-5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">not</a> necessary that there is someone who is actually deceived. If you wish to talk about an event in which the attempted deception is successful, then use <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>. Masquerading-Deceiving <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a> is the collection of events in which an agent pretends to be someone other than who he or she really is, and does so with the intent to deceive someone. The deception, in the case of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9UV_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Masquerading_Deceiving</a> specifically involves the identity of the perpertrator, which is what makes this collection more specialized than the collection, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>. masquerading deceiving first-order collection An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvtppU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rNooX_CChEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FixedOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> is the collection of all specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> (q.v.) Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. FirstOrderCollection