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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. Divination divination A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvvFPlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InterpretingSignificance</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvoaHeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ParanormalEvent</a>. Each instance of this collection is an event of predicting the future or discovering the truth by means underexplained by current science -- such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvYF2_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TarotCardReading</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9fqF5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Astrology</a>, palmistry, and geomancy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination had divined will have divined divines divined divining divine has divined will divine have divined tarot card reading A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwE7CWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Divination</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvYF2_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TarotCardReading</a> are events in which the doer foretells another person's future by turning over cards from a special deck. TarotCardReading HumanActivity human activity A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViNqpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalActivity</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViN65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanActivity</a> is a spatially-localized action each of whose &quot;doers&quot; (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP1HmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">doneBy</a>) is either a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a> or a group of humans (i.e. a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjmoJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Group</a> all of whose members are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a> or groups of humans). unnatural thing The collection of non-natural individuals. This collection is hard to precisely define but, roughly, something is an instance of this collection just in case it is one of the following: 1) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> acts that are intentionally performed by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a>s, or 2) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a>s that in some significant sense &quot;could only have been the result&quot; of the intentional activities of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a>s (or groups thereof). Positive examples in the first category include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP1F75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CesareanBirth</a>s, negative examples include eating. Positive examples in the second category include instances of industrial pollution and tire tracks. Negative examples include human vomit and human (bare) footprints. NonNaturalThing InterpretingSignificance The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi7B5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Evaluating</a> events in which some object or event is evaluated in order to gain information about something else. This includes reading animal tracks to determine what animals passed by, reading the sky for knowledge of future weather, and reading tea leaves. interpreting the significance of something ParanormalEvent The collection of all events that cannot be explained by scientific means. paranormal event Divination divination A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvvFPlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InterpretingSignificance</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvoaHeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ParanormalEvent</a>. Each instance of this collection is an event of predicting the future or discovering the truth by means underexplained by current science -- such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvYF2_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TarotCardReading</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9fqF5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Astrology</a>, palmistry, and geomancy. 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 Divination divination A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvvFPlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InterpretingSignificance</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvoaHeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ParanormalEvent</a>. Each instance of this collection is an event of predicting the future or discovering the truth by means underexplained by current science -- such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvYF2_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TarotCardReading</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9fqF5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Astrology</a>, palmistry, and geomancy. 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><b>COL</b></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><b>COL</b></code> is itself an instance of <code><b>COL</b></code>, unless it is a temporal part of a temporal granule of <code><b>COL</b></code> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a>). <p/> More precisely, for a collection <code><b>COL</b></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><b>OBJ1</b></code> and <code><b>OBJ2</b></code> (with <code><b>OBJ2</b></code> at or above <code><b>COL</b></code>'s temporal granularity level), if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> <b>OBJ1</b> <b>COL</b>)</code> and <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> <b>OBJ1</b> <b>OBJ2</b>)</code>, then <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> <b>OBJ2</b> <b>COL</b>)</code>. <p/> Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. Take an arbitrary instance <code><b>WALK</b></code> of this collection (say Miss America 2000's victory walk down the runway and back); and then take an arbitrary time-slice <code><b>SUBWALK</b></code> of <code><b>WALK</b></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><b>SUBWALK</b></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 Divination divination A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvvFPlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InterpretingSignificance</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvoaHeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ParanormalEvent</a>. Each instance of this collection is an event of predicting the future or discovering the truth by means underexplained by current science -- such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvYF2_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TarotCardReading</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9fqF5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Astrology</a>, palmistry, and geomancy.