There are a number of other kinds of things you can tell Imaginarium. Probably the most important of these are various forms of implication. For example, you can tell it that certain adjectives always apply to certain kinds of entities:
Persians are long-haired
Main coons are large and long-haired
You can also state implications for verbs. If you say:
People can know each other
People can be friends with each other
People can love other people
Being friends with implies knowing
Loving implies knowing
You’re saying that knowing is a symmetric relation (if \(A\) knows \(B\), then \(B\) knows \(A\)), and so is being friends with. Moreover, you can’t be friends with someone without knowing them. But love is a relation that isn’t necessarily symmetric: \(A\) can love \(B\), without \(B\) loving \(A\). But love still implies knowing. So if \(A\) loves \(B\), then \(A\) knows \(B\), and so \(B\) knows \(A\), but \(B\) may or may not love \(A\) ☹.
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