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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. The predicate that identifies an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/IntelligentAgent" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> who transfers a right to use some quantity of money temporarily, subject to some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/LoanAgreement" class="cyc_term">LoanAgreement</a>. (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/creditor" class="cyc_term">creditor</a> BORROW AGENT) means that after the event BORROW, AGENT loses some user right over the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/objectOfPossessionTransfer" class="cyc_term">objectOfPossessionTransfer</a>, in this case a quantity of money. Also see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/borrower" class="cyc_term">borrower</a>. Mx4rwK0F6ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA creditor lender lenders creditor credit grantors creditors credit grantor mortgagee mortgagee intelligent agent IntelligentAgent A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Agent_Generic" class="cyc_term">Agent_Generic</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/InformationStore" class="cyc_term">InformationStore</a> (qq.v.). An agent is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/IntelligentAgent" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> if and only if it is capable of knowing and acting, and capable of employing its knowledge in its actions. An intelligent agent typically <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/knowsAbout" class="cyc_term">knowsAbout</a> certain things, and its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/beliefs" class="cyc_term">beliefs</a> concerning those things influences its actions. As with agents generally, an intelligent agent might either be a single individual, such as a person, or a group consisting of two or more individual agents, such as a business or government organization. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/IntelligentAgent" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SocialBeing" class="cyc_term">SocialBeing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/MultiIndividualAgent_Intelligent" class="cyc_term">MultiIndividualAgent_Intelligent</a>. Note that non-human <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Vertebrate" class="cyc_term">Vertebrate</a>s that are sentient and somewhat intelligent, such as (arguably) cats and horses, can be considered intelligent agents in some contexts. relational noun slot The collection of binary predicates that describe a specified relation of an animal, group of animals (usually human animals), or an organization to another animal (also usually a human animal). These relations can be summed up by common nouns such as 'mother' or 'boss' or 'neighbor'. This class of predicates exists to facilitate parsing of sentences with forms such as 'X has a Y' or 'does X have a Y?' where Y is one of these relational nouns. RelationalNounSlot The predicate that identifies an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/IntelligentAgent" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> who transfers a right to use some quantity of money temporarily, subject to some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/LoanAgreement" class="cyc_term">LoanAgreement</a>. (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/creditor" class="cyc_term">creditor</a> BORROW AGENT) means that after the event BORROW, AGENT loses some user right over the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/objectOfPossessionTransfer" class="cyc_term">objectOfPossessionTransfer</a>, in this case a quantity of money. Also see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/borrower" class="cyc_term">borrower</a>. creditor lender A collection of binary predicates; a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Role" class="cyc_term">Role</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ActorSlot" class="cyc_term">ActorSlot</a> relates some instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Event" class="cyc_term">Event</a> to a temporal thing involved in that event (here called a "participant", although the thing in question might not be playing an active role in the event). The first argument of every instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ActorSlot" class="cyc_term">ActorSlot</a> is constrained to be an instance of some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Event" class="cyc_term">Event</a>, and the second argument is constrained to be an instance of some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SomethingExisting" class="cyc_term">SomethingExisting</a>. All instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ActorSlot" class="cyc_term">ActorSlot</a> have <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/actors" class="cyc_term">actors</a> as their <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/genlPreds" class="cyc_term">genlPreds</a>, directly or indirectly, so that the actor slots form a kind of hierarchy. Each specialized actor slot indicates how its participant participates in the event, i.e., in what role (e.g., <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/inputs" class="cyc_term">inputs</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/outputs" class="cyc_term">outputs</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/doneBy" class="cyc_term">doneBy</a>). Actor slots are not used to indicate the time of an event's occurrence, external representations of the event, and other more remotely related things that are not directly or indirectly "involved" in the occurrence of the event. Time and other quantities are relevant to events but are not instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SomethingExisting" class="cyc_term">SomethingExisting</a>; thus, they are related to events by some non-<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ActorSlot" class="cyc_term">ActorSlot</a> predicate. Things which are remotely related to the event -- for instance, someone who is affected by the event but doesn't exist when the event occurs -- may be related using some instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Role" class="cyc_term">Role</a> that does not belong to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ActorSlot" class="cyc_term">ActorSlot</a>, such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/affectedAgent" class="cyc_term">affectedAgent</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Role" class="cyc_term">Role</a>. ActorSlot predicate describing actors in events The predicate that identifies an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/IntelligentAgent" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> who transfers a right to use some quantity of money temporarily, subject to some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/LoanAgreement" class="cyc_term">LoanAgreement</a>. (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/creditor" class="cyc_term">creditor</a> BORROW AGENT) means that after the event BORROW, AGENT loses some user right over the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/objectOfPossessionTransfer" class="cyc_term">objectOfPossessionTransfer</a>, in this case a quantity of money. Also see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/borrower" class="cyc_term">borrower</a>. creditor lender BorrowingSomething borrowing A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/TemporaryChangeOfUserRights" class="cyc_term">TemporaryChangeOfUserRights</a>. In an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BorrowingSomething" class="cyc_term">BorrowingSomething</a>, an agent takes temporary control of something, usually with the permission of its owner(s). Generally, the lending agent expects the borrowing agent to use the object for one of its normal functions (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/intendedBehaviorCapable" class="cyc_term">intendedBehaviorCapable</a>). The predicate that identifies an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/IntelligentAgent" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> who transfers a right to use some quantity of money temporarily, subject to some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/LoanAgreement" class="cyc_term">LoanAgreement</a>. (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/creditor" class="cyc_term">creditor</a> BORROW AGENT) means that after the event BORROW, AGENT loses some user right over the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/objectOfPossessionTransfer" class="cyc_term">objectOfPossessionTransfer</a>, in this case a quantity of money. Also see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/borrower" class="cyc_term">borrower</a>. creditor lender prettyString (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/prettyString" 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/en/prettyString" 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. Pretty String