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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. Mx4rwIV89pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA agent relationship The class of static situations that exist as the result of some relationship(s) between some plurality of agents. For instance, world peace in which all countries in the world are at peace with one another. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent" class="cyc_term">InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent</a> for a specialization involving only two agents. InterAgentSituation This type of situation is a situation in which the different countries of the world are not in a state of war with each other and, presumably, in which all countries are free of civil war, in other words, situations in which the world is inhabited by agents and free from war. Note that this is a situation type suggesting that those aiming for world peace are seeking to create an *instance* of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/WorldPeace" class="cyc_term">WorldPeace</a>. world peace WorldPeace A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/StaticSituation" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a>. This is the situation that arises from an ongoing support relationship between two agents. support situation SupportSituation TermOfService A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Situation" class="cyc_term">Situation</a>, instances of which are characterized by an agent holding a particular position within an organzation at the granularity of a single 'term,' where the temporal bounds of a 'term' are conventially-defined so as to be consistent with the charactersitic relation continuing beyond the scope of the term (e.g., Bill Clinton was US President for 8 consecutive years, but served 2 terms). term of service InterAgentSituation-TwoAgent relationship The class of reified relationships between two agents. Such relationships exist in time and change over time, so <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SomethingExisting" class="cyc_term">SomethingExisting</a> is an allgenls. The class of static situations that exist as the result of some relationship(s) between some plurality of agents. For instance, world peace in which all countries in the world are at peace with one another. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent" class="cyc_term">InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent</a> for a specialization involving only two agents. agent relationship InterAgentSituation The class of static situations that exist as the result of some relationship(s) between some plurality of agents. For instance, world peace in which all countries in the world are at peace with one another. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent" class="cyc_term">InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent</a> for a specialization involving only two agents. agent relationship InterAgentSituation An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/FixedOrderCollection" class="cyc_term">FixedOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/FirstOrderCollection" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> is the collection of all specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Individual" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> (q.v.) Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/FirstOrderCollection" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/TemporalObjectType" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ExistingStuffType" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ExistingObjectType" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. first-order collection FirstOrderCollection The class of static situations that exist as the result of some relationship(s) between some plurality of agents. For instance, world peace in which all countries in the world are at peace with one another. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent" class="cyc_term">InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent</a> for a specialization involving only two agents. agent relationship InterAgentSituation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Situation" class="cyc_term">Situation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/StaticSituation" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a> is a state of affairs between two or more things, persisting statically over some time interval. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/StaticSituation" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a> always have a temporal extent, and they usually have a tangible and spatial extent. As an example, consider the situation of Bill Clinton sitting in his easy chair on the evening of 7/4/96. There are participant objects such as Bill and the chair, there are relationships such as the seat of the chair supporting his bottom and his weight being off his feet, etc. In any <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/StaticSituation" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a>, for the participants in that situation, there is some significant or focal relationship between them which does not change. In the most typical cases, there is no important change whatsoever, e.g. someone sitting would be such a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/StaticSituation" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a>. But some things represented as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/StaticSituation" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a>s can alternatively be represented as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Event" class="cyc_term">Event</a>s. For example, a situation in which geese were flying in a flock would be static (the flock-like spatial relationship between the geese would be retained) but it would also be dynamic in that the geese were moving, so either representation could be chosen depending on the context. StaticSituation static situation