]> 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; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rw4VbkLKNEdmAhAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ModulatingAWaveform</a>, something varies the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves). modulating ModulatingAWaveform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation modulates modulated will modulate have modulated has modulated will have modulated modulate had modulated A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rw4VbkLKNEdmAhAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ModulatingAWaveform</a>, something varies the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves). modulating ModulatingAWaveform first-order collection An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvtppU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rNooX_CChEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FixedOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> is the collection of all specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> (q.v.) Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. FirstOrderCollection A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvjJE4ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Event_Localized</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a> is an event characterized primarily by a change in some intrinsic property of at least one main actor involved in the event. Such intrinsic changes may include changes of a thing's color, temperature, device state, or size. Events where the main change is extrinsic (such as a change in location or ownership) are not instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a>. In events which have more than one actor, the event may be an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a> for one actor but not for another. For example, in a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjwqZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FasteningSafetyBelt</a> event, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViLD5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SafetySeatBelt</a> (the device used) goes from unconnected to connected (to itself), which is an intrinsic change; however, the agent who does the fastening does not change intrinsically, but only in his configuration to the belt, an external object. Another example: in a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViw4JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HairCuttingEvent</a>, the hair that is cut undergoes an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a> due to its role in that kind of event, but the barber undergoes no intrinsic change due to the hair cutting. <p/> Note that some events, such as an ice cube melting into a small puddle of water, could be represented either as an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a> or as a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVibApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PhysicalTransformationEvent</a>, but not (within a single micro-theory) as both. event that inherently involves a change of state IntrinsicStateChangeEvent 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; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rw4VbkLKNEdmAhAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ModulatingAWaveform</a>, something varies the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves). modulating ModulatingAWaveform A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rw4VbkLKNEdmAhAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ModulatingAWaveform</a>, something varies the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves). modulating ModulatingAWaveform A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWESd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntrinsicStateChangeEvent</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rw4VbkLKNEdmAhAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ModulatingAWaveform</a>, something varies the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves). modulating ModulatingAWaveform