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    "purpose": "Let an agent handle opposition as a relation with kinds (contrary, contradictory, inverse, spatial), and separate it from political opposition.",
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      "compute inverses",
      "find antipodes",
      "analyse arguments"
    ],
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      "Contrary, contradictory, converse and inverse kinds",
      "Spatial opposites such as antipodes",
      "Distinct from political opposition parties"
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        "Present a contrary as a contradiction, or the reverse, in a logical argument.",
        "Invent opposition between views to stir conflict."
      ],
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      ]
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        "Logical errors about opposition lead to false conclusions."
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                    "text": "Is the opposition contrary, contradictory or converse?",
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                    "text": "Can both be false?",
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                    "text": "In which domain is the opposition?",
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                  }
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        "id": "mathematics",
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                  {
                    "text": "What is the additive inverse?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Does it always exist here?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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          {
            "id": "multiplicative",
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            "description": "Reciprocal.",
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                "id": "multiplicative-finding",
                "name": "Multiplicative",
                "description": "Reciprocal.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What is the reciprocal?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is zero excluded?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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                    "text": "Is it gradable or complementary?",
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                  }
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            "id": "translation",
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                "id": "translation-finding",
                "name": "Translation",
                "description": "Translation.",
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                  {
                    "text": "Does the antonym pair hold in other languages?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How should it be translated?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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        "id": "space",
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                    "text": "Where is the antipode of this place?",
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                    "text": "Is it land or sea?",
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                    "text": "Is political opposition meant instead?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
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    "Should kinds of opposition be separate entries?",
    "How should the political sense be split off?",
    "How should antonymy be represented per language?"
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