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Tactic

A tactic is determined by the Worker. When executed, it performs one unit of inference. See also the section on tactics in the Inference Algorithm training module. [restrict level=”employee”] [Content for Cycorp employees only]...

Tactician

The Tactician is the component of the Inference Harness that is controlled by the Strategist, maintains a store of work that can be performed, and chooses among those tasks, instructing a Worker to work on them. More details can be found in the training module on the...

Template OE Tool

The Template OE tool (often referred to as the TOE tool) allows a cyclist to add or modify terms or assertions in bulk based on the results of a user-specified query. For more details, see the TOE tool training module.

Term

A term, represented in the Cyc Knowledge Base by #$CycLTerm, is anything that can be an argument to a predicate or function. Variables are terms. Constants and reified NATs are terms. Non-reified NATs are terms. Numbers, strings, or even entire formulas can serve as...

Transcript

A transcript is a file which records operations performed on the Cyc KB. At a site where several copies of Cyc are in use simultaneously and connected by a Transcript Server, transcripts can be transmitted to keep the various copies of the KB synchronized with each...