]> 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. child HumanChild A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtmz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YoungHuman</a>, and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human in the childhood stage of life. Functionally, this life stage ends when the child begins to take responsibility for themselves, work, have children of their own (or, at latest, when the person's age greatly exceeds that at which most people reach those milestones). Generally, this means that it spans the period from birth to teenage years. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FemaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanToddler</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjLpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanInfant</a>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child kid youngsters kiddy tike minors little kid little kids most underage kids children underage youngster more underage kiddies tyke tykes tikes minor The collection of male children, male kids about 12 years of age or less. boy MaleChild girl The collection of female children, female kids about 12 years of age or less. FemaleChild preschool-age child Kids who aren't old enough to start school yet (under 5 years of age). HumanPreSchoolageChild HumanSchoolageChild school-age child Kids that are of the age to go to school and are younger than teenagers (between the ages of 5 and 12). girl (FemaleFn HumanChild) The collection of all girls. A type of female young human and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPMJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanChild</a>. The collection of all school children. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPMJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanChild</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViNGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Student</a>. school child (CollectionIntersection2Fn Student HumanChild) Anu-FictionalCharacter Anu Nahasapeemapetilon Poonam Nahasapeemapetilon Poonam-FictionalCharacter A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human less than 35 years of age. This collection is disjoint with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjZtZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OldHuman</a> -- the collection of humans more than 60 years of age. Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtmz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YoungHuman</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPMJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViQtJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTeenager</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVibepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanYoungAdult</a>. young human YoungHuman person A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViknpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialBeing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVilYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndividualAgent</a>: the collection of all persons. Personhood is a vague, emotionally loaded yet extremely salient concept with respect to common-sense reasoning. Something is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> if it is an individual <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> with perceptual sensibility, capable of complex social relationships, and possessing a certain moral sophistication and an intrinsic moral value, or -- if it lacks certain of these characteristics -- is a member of a distinct type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViknpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialBeing</a> (usually a species) which generally possesses such characteristics and is therefore acknowledged by other members of that type as a person within their social systems. Most currently known instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a> but there is no reason why all need be (consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvdRsSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Hobbit</a>s in the fictional world of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi8lZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LordOfTheRings_Trilogy</a>). They need not even be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVim7ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalLivingObject</a> (consider the possibility of a person-like AI). Also note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> excludes non-human &quot;legal persons&quot;, who are, however, included in the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVinsZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalAgent</a>. Person child HumanChild A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtmz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YoungHuman</a>, and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human in the childhood stage of life. Functionally, this life stage ends when the child begins to take responsibility for themselves, work, have children of their own (or, at latest, when the person's age greatly exceeds that at which most people reach those milestones). Generally, this means that it spans the period from birth to teenage years. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FemaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanToddler</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjLpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanInfant</a>. A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rAmoSCGJbQdiSXZJvYiNhkQ" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rtGXkHpNaEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. LifeStages-Social-Topic life stages social topic <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> <b>TERM1</b> <b>TERM2</b>)</code> means that <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is <i>broader</i> than <code><b>TERM1</b></code>, in an extremely general sense of &quot;broader&quot;. For example, <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code><b>TERM1</b></code> if any of the following hold:<br><br> <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is a collection that subsumes <code><b>TERM1</b></code>; <br> <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is a collection that has <code><b>TERM1</b></code> as an instance; <br> <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code><b>TERM1</b></code> as parts; <br> <code><b>TERM2</b></code> has <code><b>TERM1</b></code> as a part; <br><br> This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> <b>TERM1</b> <b>TERM2</b>)</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 child HumanChild A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtmz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YoungHuman</a>, and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human in the childhood stage of life. Functionally, this life stage ends when the child begins to take responsibility for themselves, work, have children of their own (or, at latest, when the person's age greatly exceeds that at which most people reach those milestones). Generally, this means that it spans the period from birth to teenage years. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FemaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanToddler</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjLpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanInfant</a>. child HumanChild A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtmz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YoungHuman</a>, and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human in the childhood stage of life. Functionally, this life stage ends when the child begins to take responsibility for themselves, work, have children of their own (or, at latest, when the person's age greatly exceeds that at which most people reach those milestones). Generally, this means that it spans the period from birth to teenage years. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FemaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanToddler</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjLpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanInfant</a>. A collection of collections. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a> is the collection of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a> that are each collections of humans of a single age group. This collection exists to make it easier to refer specifically to that dimension or facet of a human being's behavior, attitudes, and beliefs (culture) which derives from, or is influenced by, its life stage. type of person classified by life stage HumanTypeByLifeStageType 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 Unmarried unmarried thing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a>. Each instance of this collection is a person that is not married. This may be because the person is considered too young for marriage in a particular context, like <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv37zvJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanPreschooler</a> in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjRPZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesSocialLifeMt</a>; or because the person is ineligible for marriage, like <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBwwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CatholicPriest</a>; or the person may be <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvzAfSHS7EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Single</a>. child HumanChild A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtmz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YoungHuman</a>, and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human in the childhood stage of life. Functionally, this life stage ends when the child begins to take responsibility for themselves, work, have children of their own (or, at latest, when the person's age greatly exceeds that at which most people reach those milestones). Generally, this means that it spans the period from birth to teenage years. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FemaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanToddler</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjLpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanInfant</a>. non empty collection NonEmptyCollection A collection of collections and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rVwwqbE7rQdmaWqcELb2oPw" class="cyc_term">NonEmptySetOrCollection</a>. A collection is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r_3mf2qedQdmNjeDW39lDKA" class="cyc_term">NonEmptyCollection</a> if and only if it has at least one instance. <p/> Some collections, aguably, are by their very nature necessarily non-empty; e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvl2en5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Set_Mathematical</a>. Conversely, some collections are non-empty in some contexts and empty in others; e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBg3ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Horse</a> is non-empty in the context of the present-day actual world but empty in certain counterfactual contexts in which horses never existed. Similarly, a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwIE23ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TimeDependentCollection</a> might be empty at certain times and non-empty at certain other times; e.g. the collection of female US presidents is currently empty but will hopefully become non-empty some time in the near future. This last example demonstrates that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r_3mf2qedQdmNjeDW39lDKA" class="cyc_term">NonEmptyCollection</a> is itself a time-dependent collection. <p/> Note that each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r_3mf2qedQdmNjeDW39lDKA" class="cyc_term">NonEmptyCollection</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rlyZyQm22EdaAAACgydogAg" class="cyc_term">intersectsWith</a> (q.v.) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViA9JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Thing</a>. <p/> Cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rDKZQEKVnQdmACrINeAfsGw" class="cyc_term">EmptyCollection</a>. child HumanChild A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtmz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YoungHuman</a>, and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human in the childhood stage of life. Functionally, this life stage ends when the child begins to take responsibility for themselves, work, have children of their own (or, at latest, when the person's age greatly exceeds that at which most people reach those milestones). Generally, this means that it spans the period from birth to teenage years. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FemaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanToddler</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjLpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanInfant</a>. juvenile The collection of all juveniles. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQwgqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JuvenileAnimal</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a>. (JuvenileFn HomoSapiens) child HumanChild A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtmz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YoungHuman</a>, and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human in the childhood stage of life. Functionally, this life stage ends when the child begins to take responsibility for themselves, work, have children of their own (or, at latest, when the person's age greatly exceeds that at which most people reach those milestones). Generally, this means that it spans the period from birth to teenage years. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FemaleChild</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanToddler</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjLpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanInfant</a>.