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in scope of interest (inScopeOfInterest)

A very general Predicate. (inScopeOfInterest agent entity) means that entity is within the scope of interest of agent. Note that the interest indicated can be either positive or negative, i.e. the agent can have an interest in avoiding or promoting entity.

Ontology

SUMO / BASE-ONTOLOGY

Class(es)

class
is instance of
  inheritable relation  
is instance of
  binary predicate  
is instance of
class
is instance of
  inheritable relation  
is instance of
  intentional relation  
is instance of
asymmetric relation
is instance of
is instance of
  in scope of interest  

Subrelation(s)

notices  needs  wants  desires  considers  believes  knows 

Coordinate term(s)

back fn  cardinality fn  front fn  principal host fn  probability fn  skin fn  arc weight  attribute  authors  before or equal  causes  causes subclass  citizen  closed on  completely fills  connected  contains information  cooccur  copy  crosses  date  decreases likelihood  developmental form  disjoint  distributes  documentation  duration  earlier  editor  element  employs  equal  equivalence relation on  exploits  expressed in language  faces  family relation  fills  finishes  frequency  graph part  greater than  greater than or equal to  has purpose  has skill  holds during  holds obligation  holds right  hole  identity element  immediate instance  immediate subclass  in list  increases likelihood  independent probability  inhabits  inhibits  initial list  instance  inverse  irreflexive on  larger  less than  less than or equal to  manner  material  measure  meets temporally  member  modal attribute  overlaps temporally  parent  partial ordering on  partially fills  partly located  path length  penetrates  possesses  precondition  prefers  prevents  proper part  properly fills  property  publishes  range  range subclass  realization  refers  reflexive on  related internal concept  sibling  smaller  starts  sub attribute  sub collection  sub graph  sub list  sub process  sub proposition  subclass  subrelation  subsumes content class  subsumes content instance  successor attribute  successor attribute closure  surface  temporal part  time  total ordering on  trichotomizing on  uses  valence  version 

Type restrictions

inScopeOfInterest(cognitive agent, entity)

Related WordNet synsets

sake, interest
a reason for wanting something done; "for your sake"; "died for the sake of his country"; "in the interest of safety"; "in the common interest"
sake is kind of (all)...   sake is kind of...   kinds of sake...   kinds of sake (all)...  
See more related synsets on a separate page.

Axioms (2)

If rel is an instance of intentional relation and rel(agent,) holds and obj is a member of "()", then agent is interested in obj. 
(=>
      (and
            (instance ?REL IntentionalRelation)
            (holds ?REL ?AGENT @ROW)
            (inList
                  ?OBJ
                  (ListFn @ROW)))
      (inScopeOfInterest ?AGENT ?OBJ))
If search is an instance of searching and search is an agent of agent and entity is a patient of search, then agent is interested in entity. 
(=>
      (and
            (instance ?SEARCH Searching)
            (agent ?SEARCH ?AGENT)
            (patient ?SEARCH ?ENTITY))
      (inScopeOfInterest ?AGENT ?ENTITY))