]> 2009/04/07 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2009 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. Mappings between OpenCyc terms and Wikipedia article names provided by Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg, University of Waikato, NZ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. 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. WillardVanOrmanQuine W. V. O. Quine Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th century metaphysician, epistemologist, and philosopher of logic and language. His main contribution to philosophy was a well-worked out skepticism towards meaning, analyticity, and modality. Quine Willard V. Quine Willard Van Orman Quine Willard Quine Willard Van Orman Quine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine American An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViWHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByNationality</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj1zpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesPerson</a> is a person who is currently among that country's citizens (see the predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViACJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">citizens</a>), or is a participant in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r4VbZRgIxQdeJv7K4QRyNQg" class="cyc_term">NationalCulture</a> of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVikKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesOfAmerica</a> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvjD0_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesCulture</a>). UnitedStatesPerson WillardVanOrmanQuine W. V. O. Quine Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th century metaphysician, epistemologist, and philosopher of logic and language. His main contribution to philosophy was a well-worked out skepticism towards meaning, analyticity, and modality. philosopher Philosopher A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a>; in the context of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj-c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanActivitiesMt</a> this collection is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWgxLZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByActivity</a>, in the context of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViLlpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JobMt</a> it is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVii2ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByOccupation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjuapwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Philosopher</a> is a person who habitually thinks about philosophical matters such as what is or might be, what we can know, how we can know anything, etc. In the contemporary era most philosophers are academics or professionals, but a significant number (now and historically) don't fit this profile. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/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/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 MaleHuman male person The collection of all male instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a>. Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJ45PHS7EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Deceased</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4ra50_OGkMEdaAAACQJ5T1Bg" class="cyc_term">AgentNowTerminated</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJ45PHS7EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Deceased</a> is a dead, formerly living organism. If the sentence, &quot;(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> ORG <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJ45PHS7EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Deceased</a>)&quot; is true, it means that ORG was once an organism (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjE1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organism_Whole</a>) which was alive and that ORG underwent death (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkJU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Dying</a>) at some time prior to the time at which &quot;(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> ORG <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJ45PHS7EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Deceased</a>)&quot; is true. Deceased dead organism university graduate (GraduateFn University) The collection of all university graduates. A type of degree granting institution graduate and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r_0fzup0fQdiYa_OT4YKKXw" class="cyc_term">LiterateAgent</a>. FamousHuman A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a>. This is the collection of all human beings that are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPzZOJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Famous</a> (i.e. identifiable by a large number of other human beings). See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwKQB3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HistoricHuman</a>. famous person WillardVanOrmanQuine W. V. O. Quine Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th century metaphysician, epistemologist, and philosopher of logic and language. His main contribution to philosophy was a well-worked out skepticism towards meaning, analyticity, and modality. wikipediaArticleName (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTv-jk9SPTXa991kk5mAvHg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME Wikipedia Article Name