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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. inquiring RequestingInformation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqypwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Requesting_CommunicationAct</a>. In each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RequestingInformation</a>, an agent asks a question or requests some information. See also the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjYxpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IllocutionaryForce</a> associated with this action, #$Query. will inquire query inquired had inquired will have queried have questioned have queried will question has questioned will have questioned inquires has queried had questioned had queried inquiries queried will have inquired inquiry question has inquired questions questioned inquire have inquired queries will query querying questioning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license_agreement asking a yes/no question The collection of events in which some agent asks a yes/no question. AskingAYesOrNoQuestion asking where one is going AskingWhereOneIsGoing The collection of events in which some agent asks where someone is going. The collection of all events of a #$SoftwareAgent asking for some information from some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjSEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">KnowledgeBase</a>. internally querying KB InternallyQueryingKB asking a clarification question The collection of all instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMQZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Acknowledging_CommunicationAct</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RequestingInformation</a> that are intended by their performers to enable those performers to achieve a state of clarity on some point where that clarity was lacking. RequestingClarification AskingWhetherOneHasEaten asking whether one has eaten The collection of events in which some agent asks somene whether one has eaten. Cross-examination cross-examination RequestingInformationOfAComputerByAUser requesting information from a computer RequestingInformationFromComputerUser requesting information from a computer user The collection of all events in which some #$SoftwareAgent requests information from some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvwbJ4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerUser</a>. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a> (q.v.) whose instances are all and only those collections that are temporally object-like. A collection <code>COL</code> is temporally object-like just in case it generally holds that any proper purely temporal parts (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a>) of an instance of <code>COL</code> is not itself an instance of <code>COL</code>. More precisely, a collection <code>COL</code> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> just in case it satisfies the following: For any distinct <code>OBJ1</code> and <code>OBJ2</code>, if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ1 COL)</code> and <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> OBJ1 OBJ2)</code>, then not <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ2 COL)</code>. For example, none of the proper time-slices of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjyV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CalendarYear</a> is itself a calendar year. Likewise for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViYBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TakingAStep</a>. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjyV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CalendarYear</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViYBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TakingAStep</a> are both instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>. Conversely, a proper time-slice of a given <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVisWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Date</a> might itself be a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVisWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Date</a> (e.g. an hour has minutes and seconds as time-slices); so <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVisWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Date</a> is not a temporal-object-type. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> for the disjoint notion of being temporally stuff-like. TemporalObjectType temporal object type interview Interviewing The collection of events in which one or more agents interviews one or more other agents for the purpose of gathering information (usually about the interviewees, or about something in which they have a vested interest). typical human activity type at least once TypicalHumanActivityType-AtLeastOnce The collection of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViN65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanActivity</a> such that persons typically are involved in (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjFpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">actors</a>) at least one instance of the activity type in their lifetime. <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> means that <code>TERM2</code> is broader than <code>TERM1</code>, in an extremely general sense of "broader". For example, <code>TERM2</code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code>TERM1</code> if any of the following hold: <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that subsumes <code>TERM1</code>; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that has <code>TERM1</code> as an instance; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code>TERM1</code> as parts; <code>TERM2</code> has <code>TERM1</code> as a part; This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> could hold is not exhaustive, but it should give a good indication of how general the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> relation actually is. BT broaderTerm requesting Requesting-CommunicationAct A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVieg5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CommunicationAct_Single</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqypwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Requesting_CommunicationAct</a> is a communication act in which one agent requests something of one or more other agents. Requests are typically followed by responses. press conference NewsConference The collection of all meetings in which members of the press are called in order to publicly provide them with information which the organizers of the press conference wish disseminated to the public. A statement is initally given to the press, after which the press is given the opportunity to ask questions. inquiring RequestingInformation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqypwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Requesting_CommunicationAct</a>. In each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RequestingInformation</a>, an agent asks a question or requests some information. See also the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjYxpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IllocutionaryForce</a> associated with this action, #$Query. InformationAndCWs-Topic information and CWs topic interrogation The collection of interrogation events in which some prisoner or detainee is asked for information. Often, psychological methods are employed to make the subject more willing to talk. Interrogations are often performed by persons with some position of authority over the subject. Interrogation inquiring RequestingInformation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqypwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Requesting_CommunicationAct</a>. In each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RequestingInformation</a>, an agent asks a question or requests some information. See also the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjYxpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IllocutionaryForce</a> associated with this action, #$Query. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString inquiring RequestingInformation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqypwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Requesting_CommunicationAct</a>. In each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RequestingInformation</a>, an agent asks a question or requests some information. See also the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjYxpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IllocutionaryForce</a> associated with this action, #$Query. Survey A collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViADZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Event</a>s; a subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj7CpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationGathering</a>. In every instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv3CXapwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Survey</a>, an agent questions a number of individuals in order to gain information about the group to which they belong. The question(s) in the survey may be asked in individual interviews, or may be mass-disseminated (e.g. by television or magazines) so that members of the public can choose whether to respond. survey