]> 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. A collection of events and a subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwCS5upwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightChangingProcess</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvc81PpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightLosingProcess</a> is an event in which the weight of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkIMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> decreases. This would happen, for instance, as a result of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DietingForWeightLoss</a>. weight loss WeightLosingProcess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_loss will thin melts off will have slenderized will slenderize thinned slimming has reduced loses weight had slimmed down slimming down have thinned thins will have thinned had melted off thinning will have lost weight lose weighting have lost weight will have slimmed will have reduced lose have weighted has lost weight had lost weight losing weight thin lose weight lose will have weighted will slim down slenderizes has slenderized will melt off had reduced will reduce slim down will slim slims down melting off will have slimmed down had slimmed reduced reduce melted off has slimmed had slenderized reducing lose weights lose had weighted reduces lost weight have melted off will have melted off have slimmed down weight losses slim lose will weight have reduced slimmed have slimmed has melted off slenderizing have slenderized slims lose weighted has thinned slenderized melt off lose has weighted slimmed down slenderize will lose weight had thinned has slimmed down sweating off A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvc81PpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightLosingProcess</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rYFEl0LJXEdmAhAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">SweatingOffWeight</a>, someone loses weight by sweating. SweatingOffWeight A collection of events and a subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwCS5upwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightChangingProcess</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvc81PpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightLosingProcess</a> is an event in which the weight of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkIMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> decreases. This would happen, for instance, as a result of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DietingForWeightLoss</a>. weight loss WeightLosingProcess A collection of events and a subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwCS5upwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightChangingProcess</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvc81PpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightLosingProcess</a> is an event in which the weight of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkIMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> decreases. This would happen, for instance, as a result of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DietingForWeightLoss</a>. weight loss WeightLosingProcess A collection of events and a subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwCS5upwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightChangingProcess</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvc81PpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightLosingProcess</a> is an event in which the weight of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkIMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> decreases. This would happen, for instance, as a result of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DietingForWeightLoss</a>. weight loss WeightLosingProcess 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 events and a subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwCS5upwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightChangingProcess</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvc81PpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightLosingProcess</a> is an event in which the weight of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkIMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> decreases. This would happen, for instance, as a result of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DietingForWeightLoss</a>. weight loss WeightLosingProcess weight changing process WeightChangingProcess A collection of events. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwCS5upwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightChangingProcess</a> is an Event which has, as one of its significant effects, changing the weight of some object. Note that a change in weight is one of the kinds of intrinsic change which an object can undergo, that is, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwCS5upwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeightChangingProcess</a> is a subset of IntrinsicStateChangeEvent. type of temporally stuff-like thing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> (q.v.) whose instances are all and only those collections that are temporally stuff-like. A collection <code>COL</code> is temporally stuff-like just in case every purely temporal part (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 itself an instance of <code>COL</code>, unless it is a temporal part of a temporal granule of <code>COL</code> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a>). More precisely, for a collection <code>COL</code> to be an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> it is both a necessary and sufficient condition that for any <code>OBJ1</code> and <code>OBJ2</code> (with <code>OBJ2</code> at or above <code>COL</code>'s temporal granularity level), 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 <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ2 COL)</code>. Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. Take an arbitrary instance <code>WALK</code> of this collection (say Miss America 2000's victory walk down the runway and back); and then take an arbitrary time-slice <code>SUBWALK</code> of <code>WALK</code> that subsumes at least one instance of (the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a> for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViYBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TakingAStep</a> (say her trip back from the end of the runway). <code>SUBWALK</code> is itself an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> for the disjoint notion of being temporally object-like. TemporalStuffType