]> 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. The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some instances of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. system of religious beliefs ReligiousBeliefs religious belief systems religious belief system religious belief religious beliefs systems of religious beliefs Paganism The collection of all Pagan belief systems. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvadca5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ReligiousBeliefs</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwSe1EJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Paganism</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkFiJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BeliefSystemType</a>. Paganism reincarnation belief systems The collection of belief systems in which <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkGVupwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Reincarnation</a> is a belief. These systems contain assertions pertaining to the basic belief in the past lives of people. Among the beliefs in such systems is the axiom relating every person to a reincarnation event (i.e., every person has at least one past life). ReincarnationBeliefSystems The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some elements of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. Religion religion <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rVZLOmmMSQdibeobtyiITrQ" class="cyc_term">LiberationTheology</a> is &quot;[a] school of theology, especially prevalent in the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, that finds in the Gospel a call to free people from political, social, and material oppression.&quot; (Source: <a href= "http://www.bartleby.com/61/94/L0149400.html.">http://www.bartleby.com/61/94/L0149400.html.</a>) liberation theology LiberationTheology creationism the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj9r5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">beliefStatements</a> assertions on this constant for how this is represented in Cyc. Creationism AumShinrikyo-BeliefSystem Aum Shinrikyo A set <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvadca5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ReligiousBeliefs</a> - metaphysical precepts and related ideas about ethics - indigenous to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9FecJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">China_Historical</a>. Though deities have been part of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjN25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Taoism</a> at certain times, it is not a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a> in the usual western sense. However, it contains elements of mysticism that distinguish it from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjXOZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PhilosophyBeliefs</a>. Taoism Taoism A system of interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures based upon a tradition claimed to have been handed down orally from Abraham. Despite that claimed antiquity, the earliest known formulation dates from 11th century France. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwF2Pc5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Kabbalah</a> spread from there most notably to Spain. Most varieties of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwF2Pc5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Kabbalah</a> share the doctrines of emanation and the transmigration of souls, and the belief that every word, letter, number, and even accent in certain texts contains mysteries interpretable by those who know the secret. Typically, the names for God are believed to contain miraculous power and each letter of the divine name is considered potent. Kabbalah cabala YogaBeliefSystem One of the six classic systems of Hindu philosophy. One of its central beliefs is that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViwLpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DoingYoga</a> enables the person to achieve liberation from a false identification with the mind/body complex and attain union with the spiritual self. yoga philosophy The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some instances of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. system of religious beliefs ReligiousBeliefs The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some instances of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. system of religious beliefs ReligiousBeliefs The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some instances of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. system of religious beliefs ReligiousBeliefs belief system A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvf9sZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AspatialInformationStore</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi9R5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BeliefSystem</a> is an ideology (systems of belief) in terms of which an agent characterizes (i.e., makes sense of) the world. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi9R5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BeliefSystem</a> include: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVicUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Vegetarianism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP2Gc5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GermanNaziIdeology</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOhpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RepublicanPartyIdeology</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0EZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Communism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8hZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Pacifism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkAT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Atheism</a>, etc. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNgIyZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ClassificationSystem</a>. BeliefSystem 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 The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r_4bScKNtQdiVw7XtX-HN0Q" class="cyc_term">ClarifyingCollectionType</a> that are used by the <font color="#ff0000">#$KRAKEN</font> application to resolve natural language ambiguities. KE clarifying collection type KEClarifyingCollectionType type of belief system BeliefSystemType The collection of all the kinds of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi9R5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BeliefSystem</a>s -- religious, philosophical, political, ethical, cultural, and scientific. Some elements of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjXOZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PhilosophyBeliefs</a>, etc. The most general member of this set is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi9R5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BeliefSystem</a>s (qv).