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CognitiveAgent
subject			fact

CognitiveAgent	documentation A SentientAgent with responsibilities and the ability to reason, deliberate, make plans, etc. This is essentially the legal/ethical notion of a person. Note that, although Human is a subclass of CognitiveAgent, there may be instances of CognitiveAgent which are not also instances of Human. For example, chimpanzees, gorillas, dolphins, whales, and some extraterrestrials (if they exist) may be CognitiveAgents
	has axiom (=> (and (instance ?LEARN Learning) (agent ?LEARN ?AGENT)) (instance ?AGENT CognitiveAgent))
	has axiom (=> (and (instance ?PROC IntentionalProcess) (agent ?PROC ?AGENT)) (and (instance ?AGENT CognitiveAgent) (exists (?PURP) (hasPurposeForAgent ?PROC ?PURP ?AGENT))))
	has axiom (=> (instance ?PROC IntentionalProcess) (exists (?AGENT) (and (instance ?AGENT CognitiveAgent) (agent ?PROC ?AGENT))))
	is first domain of occupiesPosition
	is second domain of employs
	is a kind of SentientAgent
Agent	is third domain of hasPurposeForAgent
	is third domain of representsForAgent
Object	is disjoint from Process

Kinds of CognitiveAgent :

• Human (6 facts) - Modern man, the only remaining species of the Homo genus
• OrganizationUnit (6 kinds, 27 facts) - An Organization or a functional unit within an Organization, e.g. positions, divisions, and departments. For example, the Shell Corporation, the accounting department at Shell, the positions of CEO and mail room supervisor at Shell, etc. would all be instances of OrganizationUnit. The continued existence of an OrganizationUnit is not dependent on any of its members, its location, or its particular facility. Note that, unlike its subclass Organization, an OrganizationUnit may have no members or just one member
• PersonBySocialRole (2 kinds, 9 facts) - The Class of all CognitiveAgents who are considered with respect to a social role that they have