by cycorpinc | Apr 12, 2021
The canonicalization subsystem is sometimes referred to as “the Canonicalizer” (as is the canonicalizer proper). Taken as a whole, the canonicalization subsystem provides the language-level support for CycL. It primarily implements the conversion from EL...
by cycorpinc | Apr 12, 2021
Canonicalizer may refer to: The Canonicalizer proper The Canonicalization Subsystem, consisting of the Canonicalizer proper, the WFF Checker, the Simplifier, and other modules.
by cycorpinc | Apr 12, 2021
The Canonicalizer proper is the main part of the Canonicalization subsystem: the part of the Cyc system that takes in EL expressions and converts them to HL expressions. Two different, but logically equivalent, CycL sentences are transformed into the same HL sentence...
by cycorpinc | Apr 12, 2021
The closed world assumption is the assumption that if something is not provable, then it is false.
by cycorpinc | Apr 12, 2021
In CycL, collections are used to talk about general concepts rather than individual things. For example, in Cyc, #$Dog is the collection that contains all dogs. (In contrast, #$Snoopy is a particular dog, i.e. an instance of the collection #$Dog.) Collections are like...
