]> 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 instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a> in which the divine (ultimate reality) is conceived as one or more intelligent agents TheisticReligion theistic religion theistic religions MonotheisticReligion monotheistic religion The collection of all monotheistic religions, or religions whose believers are taught to acknowledge and worship only one God. polytheistic religion PolytheisticReligion A collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a>s. In a polytheistic religion, there are believed to be multiple <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjrCJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">God</a>s. Satanism Satanism Belief system and practices involving worship of Satan. TheisticReligion The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a> in which the divine (ultimate reality) is conceived as one or more intelligent agents theistic religion 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 TheisticReligion The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a> in which the divine (ultimate reality) is conceived as one or more intelligent agents theistic religion 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 TheisticReligion The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a> in which the divine (ultimate reality) is conceived as one or more intelligent agents theistic religion 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).