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CognitiveAgentrepresentsForAgentA 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 CognitiveAgentsProcessSentientAgentemploysoccupiesPosition
(=>
(instance ?PROC IntentionalProcess)
(exists (?AGENT)
(and
(instance ?AGENT CognitiveAgent)
(agent ?PROC ?AGENT))))

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