]> 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. inventing Inventing something. InventingSomething http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention has invented had invented will have invented has devised devise had devised will have devised have devised devises will devise will invent devising have invented invented invention invent invents devised 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. Inventing something. inventing InventingSomething Inventing something. inventing InventingSomething AccomplishmentType type of accomplishment A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv48ocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a> is a type of events that include, by their nature, a 'culmination' or completion point, conceptually distinct from their mere temporal ending. Moreover, each instance of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv48ocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a> is 'quantized' in the following sense: if <code>EVENT-1</code> and <code>EVENT-2</code> are instances of the same instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv48ocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a>, then <code>EVENT-2</code> cannot be a proper sub-event of <code>EVENT-1</code>, nor can <code>EVENT-1</code> be a proper sub-event of <code>EVENT-2</code>. type of punctual event PunctualEventType A collection of collections of events. If PUNCT is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4unQpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PunctualEventType</a>, then each instance of PUNCT is temporally `unextended', i.e., its occurrence bisects an imaginary timeline in a `before' and an `after' segment without residue. More precisely, we'll say that EVT is an instance of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4unQpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PunctualEventType</a> iff its starting point and its ending point coincide, i.e., if its temporal extent is `point-like' up to a reasonable time granularity scale. 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 thinking Thinking A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv96N1JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntentionalMentalEvent</a>. Each instance of this collection is a thinking process in which it is essential that an agent uses information about the current state of the world (or some portion of the world). Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViHGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Thinking</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi7B5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Evaluating</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MakingAPlan</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjt_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Negotiating</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkHc5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InventingSomething</a>. Inventing something. inventing InventingSomething