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Mx4rvjz-VJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA This predicates relates a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> to the objects that are configured in the situation. For instance, if a set of links is configured into a chain, then the chain and each of its links would be related to the configuration situation by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/configuredObjects" class="cyc_term">configuredObjects</a>. configuredObjects Configured Objects (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/animalInPosture" class="cyc_term">animalInPosture</a> POSTURE ANIMAL) means that POSTURE is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> that consists of ANIMAL's body being in a certain posture. posture animalInPosture Thing Attached A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/configuredObjects" class="cyc_term">configuredObjects</a>. <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/thingAttached" class="cyc_term">thingAttached</a> ATTACH THING)</code> means that <code>THING</code> is attached to some other object (see the predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/thingAttachedTo" class="cyc_term">thingAttachedTo</a>) in the attachment configuration <code>ATTACH</code>. thingAttached Object Configured In Chemical Bond objectConfiguredInChemicalBond (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/objectConfiguredInChemicalBond" class="cyc_term">objectConfiguredInChemicalBond</a> BOND OBJ) means that OBJ, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ChemicalObject" class="cyc_term">ChemicalObject</a>, is one of the objects bonded in BOND, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ChemicalBond" class="cyc_term">ChemicalBond</a>. Present Tense Version Fn Configured Objects (PresentTenseVersionFn configuredObjects) Mediator Configured Chem Bond (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/mediatorConfigured_ChemBond" class="cyc_term">mediatorConfigured_ChemBond</a> BOND OBJ) means that OBJ is configured as the mediating object in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ChemicalBond" class="cyc_term">ChemicalBond</a> BOND. OBJ can be an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ChemicalObject" class="cyc_term">ChemicalObject</a> or an Electron when BOND is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CovalentBond" class="cyc_term">CovalentBond</a>. mediatorConfigured-ChemBond arg2 is the thing to which the attached thing is connected, in the Attachment configuration ARG1. Thing Attached To thingAttachedTo Primary Object Configured primaryObjectConfigured This predicate relates an object configuration to the primary object configured in the situation. <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/primaryObjectConfigured" class="cyc_term">primaryObjectConfigured</a> CONFIG OBJ)</code> means that <code>OBJ</code> is the main thing configured in <code>CONFIG</code>. All things besides <code>OBJ</code> configured in the situation, <code>SUBOBJ</code>, (i.e. bearing the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/configuredObjects" class="cyc_term">configuredObjects</a> relation to <code>CONFIG</code>), will be part (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/parts" class="cyc_term">parts</a>) of <code>OBJ</code>. This predicates relates a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> to the objects that are configured in the situation. For instance, if a set of links is configured into a chain, then the chain and each of its links would be related to the configuration situation by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/configuredObjects" class="cyc_term">configuredObjects</a>. configuredObjects Configured Objects This predicates relates a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> to the objects that are configured in the situation. For instance, if a set of links is configured into a chain, then the chain and each of its links would be related to the configuration situation by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/configuredObjects" class="cyc_term">configuredObjects</a>. configuredObjects Configured Objects Configuration A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/StaticSituation" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpatialThing_Localized" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing_Localized</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> is a static situation consisting of two or more <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/PartiallyTangible" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> things of certain types standing in a certain type of spatial relationship (or set of relationships). This (set of) spatial relationship(s) "characterizes" the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a>'s type in the sense that any group of objects of the appropriate types standing in that relationship (or those relationships) correspond to a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> of that type; and each of these objects, in turn, is said to be "configured" (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/configuredObjects" class="cyc_term">configuredObjects</a>) in the (individual) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a>. For example, a knot configuration might correspond to a particular intertwining of end-segments of two <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CordlikeObject" class="cyc_term">CordlikeObject</a>s, or to the intertwining of several segments of a single <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CordlikeObject" class="cyc_term">CordlikeObject</a>. For configurations like the latter, whose characterizing relationship(s) hold between different parts of a single salient object, see the specialization <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ConfigurationOfComplexObject" class="cyc_term">ConfigurationOfComplexObject</a>. Note that a static situation involving an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Agent_PartiallyTangible" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a> might be a configuration, but only so long as it's just the agent's spatial relationship(s) to other partially tangibles that matters (see e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/WearingSomething" class="cyc_term">WearingSomething</a>); static situations in which an agent's agency or sentience is crucial, on the other hand, are not configurations (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/InterAgentSituation" class="cyc_term">InterAgentSituation</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent" class="cyc_term">InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent</a>). configuration A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/EnduringThing_Localized" class="cyc_term">EnduringThing_Localized</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/TemporalThing" class="cyc_term">TemporalThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/PartiallyTangible" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> has a tangible (i.e. material) part and a temporal extent (i.e. it exists in time). It might or might not also have an intangible part. For example, a particular copy of a book is made of matter, has temporal extent, and also has an intangible part: the information content of the text markings on its pages. tangible thing PartiallyTangible binary role predicate A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Role" class="cyc_term">Role</a>. An instance <code>ROLE</code> of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Role" class="cyc_term">Role</a> is also an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BinaryRolePredicate" class="cyc_term">BinaryRolePredicate</a> just in case <code>ROLE</code> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BinaryPredicate" class="cyc_term">BinaryPredicate</a>. In other words, <code>ROLE</code> is a binary predicate that relates a situation to a single individual that is involved in that situation, For example, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/subSituations" class="cyc_term">subSituations</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/actors" class="cyc_term">actors</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/affectedAgent" class="cyc_term">affectedAgent</a> are all binary role predicates. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BinaryRoleTypePredicate" class="cyc_term">BinaryRoleTypePredicate</a>. BinaryRolePredicate This predicates relates a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Configuration" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> to the objects that are configured in the situation. For instance, if a set of links is configured into a chain, then the chain and each of its links would be related to the configuration situation by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/configuredObjects" class="cyc_term">configuredObjects</a>. configuredObjects Configured Objects