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appearance as argument number 1

(documentation VendingMachine EnglishLanguage "A Machine that is the instrument of a FinancialTransaction that accepts payment and releases some object, often food or drink, to the customer.")	Mid-level-ontology.kif 1948-1950
(subclass VendingMachine Machine)	Mid-level-ontology.kif 1947-1947	Vending machine is a subclass of machine

appearance as argument number 2

(termFormat ChineseLanguage VendingMachine "售货机")	domainEnglishFormat.kif 61508-61508
(termFormat ChineseTraditionalLanguage VendingMachine "售貨機")	domainEnglishFormat.kif 61507-61507
(termFormat EnglishLanguage VendingMachine "vending machine")	domainEnglishFormat.kif 61506-61506

antecedent

(=> (instance ?VD VendingMachine) (hasPurpose ?VD (exists (?T ?C ?P) (and (instance ?T FinancialTransaction) (instrument ?T ?VD) (patient ?T ?C) (instance ?C Currency) (patient ?T ?P) (instance ?P Product)))))	Mid-level-ontology.kif 1967-1977	If a physical is an instance of vending machine, then the physical has the purpose there exist an entity, another entity and a third entity such that the entity is an instance of financial transaction and the physical is an instrument for the entity and the other entity is a patient of the entity and the other entity is an instance of currency and the third entity is a patient of the entity and the third entity is an instance of product
(=> (instance ?VM VendingMachine) (hasPurpose ?VM (exists (?H ?O ?V) (and (instance ?V Vending) (instance ?H Human) (instance ?O Object) (objectTransferred ?V ?O) (instrument ?V ?VM) (origin ?V ?VM) (not (instance ?O Currency)) (destination ?V ?H)))))	Mid-level-ontology.kif 1952-1965	If a physical is an instance of vending machine, then the physical has the purpose there exist an entity, another entity and a third entity such that the third entity is an instance of vending and the entity is an instance of human and the other entity is an instance of object and the object transferred in the third entity is the other entity and the physical is an instrument for the third entity and the third entity originates at the physical and the other entity is not an instance of currency and the third entity ends up at the entity

consequent

(=>
    (instance ?V Vending)
    (exists (?VM)
        (and
            (instance ?VM VendingMachine)
            (origin ?V ?VM))))

Mid-level-ontology.kif 1940-1945

If a process is an instance of vending,
then there exists the processM such that the processM is an instance of vending machine and the process originates at the processM

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