]> 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. amorphous thing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViiNZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmorphousThing</a> is a spatial object that has no well-defined shape (though what counts as a "well-defined shape" can vary from context to context). Contrast with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJRrmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ShapedObject</a>. AmorphousThing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeless formlessest most amorphous more amorphous formless amorphous shapeless formlesser more shapeless most shapeless amorphous thing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViiNZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmorphousThing</a> is a spatial object that has no well-defined shape (though what counts as a "well-defined shape" can vary from context to context). Contrast with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJRrmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ShapedObject</a>. AmorphousThing amorphous thing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViiNZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmorphousThing</a> is a spatial object that has no well-defined shape (though what counts as a "well-defined shape" can vary from context to context). Contrast with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJRrmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ShapedObject</a>. AmorphousThing SpatialThingTypeByShape configuration A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> whose instances are collections of things sorted purely in terms of their shape. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPRuD5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThingTypeByShape</a> is a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> (q.v.) whose own instances are all and only those things, either tangible or intangible, that have some particular thing in common as regards their shape. For example, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTr58ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Wedge</a> is the collection of all wedge-shaped objects; it includes both physical wedges and wedge-shaped <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvlxdi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpaceRegion</a>s. Similarly, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjUVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Square</a> is the collection of all two-dimensional squares; but note that all of its instances are intangible, since tangible objects are by their nature three-dimensional. Finally, note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwwfziB5sQdeF8uYL1bPzcw" class="cyc_term">Block</a> (e.g.) is not a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPRuD5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThingTypeByShape</a>; for it collects its instances not merely by their shape, but also by the fact that they are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjElJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidTangibleThing</a>s. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPRuD5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThingTypeByShape</a> include #$SpatialThingTypeByGeometricShape and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvfBumZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThingTypeByDimensionality</a>. amorphous thing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViiNZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmorphousThing</a> is a spatial object that has no well-defined shape (though what counts as a "well-defined shape" can vary from context to context). Contrast with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJRrmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ShapedObject</a>. AmorphousThing 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 collection of collections and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a> (q.v.). Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> is a collection C of spatial things (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>), where each of the spatial things in C is spatially disjoint with the other spatial things in C. For example, the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaoJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Dog</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>, since dogs do not spatially overlap. Even pregnant dogs do not spatially overlap the pups they bear; rather, pregnant dogs contain their unborn pups. Other instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwVGrQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LatitudeLine</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwR7UWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlanetaryBody</a>. An important specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjlE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointRegionType</a> (a collection of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a>, such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwT-n15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TrueContinent</a>). spatially disjoint object type SpatiallyDisjointObjectType SpatialThing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a>. The collection of all things that have a spatial extent or location relative to some other <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> or in some embedding space. Note that to say that an entity is a member of this collection is to remain agnostic about two issues. First, a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> may be <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkBk5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Texas_State</a>) or wholly <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjjo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Intangible</a> (e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvsrySJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ArcticCircle</a> or a line mentioned in a geometric theorem). Second, although we do insist on location relative to another spatial thing or in some embedding space, a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> might or might not be located in the actual physical universe. It is far from clear that all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>s are so located: an ideal platonic circle or a trajectory through the phase space of some physical system (e.g.) might not be. If the intent is to imply location in the empirically observable cosmos, the user should employ this collection's specialization, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwS68M5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing_Localized</a>. spatial thing