]> 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 actions which are considered, by the adherents of some belief system, to be religious or sacred (lit.: 'set apart'). Many such actions are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> (q.v.). black magic BlackMagic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_magic The collection of actions which are considered, by the adherents of some belief system, to be religious or sacred (lit.: 'set apart'). Many such actions are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> (q.v.). black magic BlackMagic The collection of actions which are considered, by the adherents of some belief system, to be religious or sacred (lit.: 'set apart'). Many such actions are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> (q.v.). black magic BlackMagic The collection of actions which are considered, by the adherents of some belief system, to be religious or sacred (lit.: 'set apart'). Many such actions are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> (q.v.). black magic BlackMagic Magic magic Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv950jZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Magic</a> are ritualized <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVioQZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Action</a>s which are believed by some to effect change in human affairs or in the natural world by drawing on some mystical force outside ordinary human experience. 'Magic tricks' can be distinguished from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv950jZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Magic</a> since sleights of hand rather than mystical forces are what enables them. Historians and anthropologists have debated the manner and degree to which <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv950jZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Magic</a> and religion are similar. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJURwZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BlackMagic</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwT37opwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WhiteMagic</a>. The collection of actions which are considered, by the adherents of some belief system, to be religious or sacred (lit.: 'set apart'). Many such actions are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> (q.v.). black magic BlackMagic The collection of actions which are considered, by the adherents of some belief system, to be religious or sacred (lit.: 'set apart'). Many such actions are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> (q.v.). black magic BlackMagic 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