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Sparrow Language

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- !!! Basic Sparrow
+ !!! Sparrow
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+ Sparrow ontologies, like description-logic ontologies, define concepts, roles, individuals, and properties.
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+ !! Basics: Simple Concept Definitions
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- This sentence states that the term 'animal' is a sub-concept of the concept 'organism'. In this example, both 'animal' and 'organism' are asserted as being concepts. In other words, the above expression is equivalent to the following three expressions in sparrow.
+ This sentence states that the term 'animal' is a sub-concept of the concept 'organism'. In other words, every animal is an organism. Both 'animal' and 'organism' are asserted as being concepts by this sentence. The sentence is equivalent to the following three sparrow sentences.
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+ {{{
+ concept organism.
+ concept animal.
+ concept animal is_a organism.
+ }}}
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+ Multiple sentences about the same concept are combined through conjunction (and). For example, the sentences:
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+ concept plant.
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+ concept animal is_a not plant.
+ }}}
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+ can be combined into the equivalent sentence:
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+ {{{
+ concept animal is_a organism and not plant.
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+ In other words, an animal is an organism but not a plant.

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