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represents
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represents	documentation A very general semiotics Predicate. (represents ?THING ?ENTITY) means that ?THING in some way expresses, connotes, pictures, describes, etc. ?ENTITY. The Predicates containsInformation and realization are subrelations of represents. Note that represents is a subrelation of refers, since something can represent something else only if it refers to this other thing
	has axiom (=> (represents ?REP ?ENTITY) (exists (?LANGUAGE) (representsInLanguage ?REP ?ENTITY ?LANGUAGE)))
	has domain1 Physical
	has domain2 Entity
	is an instance of BinaryPredicate
BinaryRelation	is first domain of DomainFn
	is first domain of equivalenceRelationOn
	is first domain of inverse
	is first domain of irreflexiveOn
	is first domain of partialOrderingOn
	is first domain of RangeFn
	is first domain of reflexiveOn
	is first domain of totalOrderingOn
	is first domain of trichotomizingOn
	is second domain of inverse
Predicate	is first domain of singleValued
Class	is third domain of domain
	is third domain of domainSubclass
Abstract	is disjoint from Physical

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