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appearance as argument number 1

(documentation Answering EnglishLanguage "Responding to a Questioning, i.e. trying to answer someone's question.")	Mid-level-ontology.kif 888-889
(subclass Answering Stating)	Mid-level-ontology.kif 887-887	Answering is a subclass of stating

appearance as argument number 2

(termFormat ChineseLanguage Answering "回答中")	domainEnglishFormat.kif 7736-7736
(termFormat ChineseTraditionalLanguage Answering "回答中")	domainEnglishFormat.kif 7735-7735
(termFormat EnglishLanguage Answering "answering")	domainEnglishFormat.kif 7734-7734

antecedent

(=>
    (instance ?ANSWER Answering)
    (exists (?QUESTION)
        (and
            (instance ?QUESTION Questioning)
            (refers ?ANSWER ?QUESTION)
            (earlier
                (WhenFn ?QUESTION)
                (WhenFn ?ANSWER)))))

Mid-level-ontology.kif 891-897

If a physical is an instance of answering,
then there exists another physical such that the other physical is an instance of questioning and the physical includes a reference to the other physical and the time of existence of the other physical happens earlier than the time of existence of the physical

consequent

(=> (dayPhone ?Number ?Agent) (exists (?Phone ?Hour ?Num) (and (phoneNumber ?Number ?Phone) (greaterThan ?Num 6) (lessThan ?Num 18) (holdsDuring (instance ?Hour (HourFn ?Num Day)) (exists (?T) (and (instance ?T Telephoning) (destination ?T ?Agent) (patient ?T ?Phone) (possesses ?Agent ?Phone) (modalAttribute (exists (?A) (and (instance ?A Answering) (subProcess ?A ?T) (agent ?A ?Agent))) Likely)))))))	FinancialOntology.kif 3691-3711	If an agent is a day phone of a symbolic string, then there exist a telephone, an entity and a real number such that the telephone is a phone number of the symbolic string and the real number is greater than 6 and the real number is less than 18 and there exists another entity such that the other entity is an instance of telephoning and the other entity ends up at the agent and the telephone is a patient of the other entity and the agent possesses the telephone and the statement there exists a third entity such that the third entity is an instance of answering and the third entity is a subprocess of the other entity and the agent is an agent of the third entity has the modal force of likely holds during the entity is an instance of the hour the real number
(=> (eveningPhone ?Number ?Agent) (exists (?Phone ?Hour ?Num) (and (phoneNumber ?Number ?Phone) (greaterThan ?Num 18) (lessThan ?Num 6) (holdsDuring (instance ?Hour (HourFn ?Num Day)) (exists (?T) (and (instance ?T Telephoning) (destination ?T ?Agent) (patient ?T ?Phone) (possesses ?Agent ?Phone) (modalAttribute (exists (?A) (and (instance ?A Answering) (subProcess ?A ?T) (agent ?A ?Agent))) Likely)))))))	FinancialOntology.kif 3735-3755	If an agent is an evening phone of a symbolic string, then there exist a telephone, an entity and a real number such that the telephone is a phone number of the symbolic string and the real number is greater than 18 and the real number is less than 6 and there exists another entity such that the other entity is an instance of telephoning and the other entity ends up at the agent and the telephone is a patient of the other entity and the agent possesses the telephone and the statement there exists a third entity such that the third entity is an instance of answering and the third entity is a subprocess of the other entity and the agent is an agent of the third entity has the modal force of likely holds during the entity is an instance of the hour the real number

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