seeks to know

• CURIE: gmeow:seeksToKnow
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/seeksToKnow
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/inquiry
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

An agent directs its inquiry at an epistemics resolution — pursuing the question specifically so as to gmeow:knowsThat its answer: the goal-directed erotetic attitude that ties inquiry to the epistemics spine. Range OPEN, like gmeow:asks. Non-functional. The aimed-at resolution is an epistemics acceptance, never a truth bit here.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> ?

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:seeksToKnow from gmeow:Agent to ? when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Known Unknown

• Source: slices/core/metacognition/examples/known-unknown.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-metacognition-examples-known-unknown

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — a KNOWN-UNKNOWN that mints an inquiry, with NO new bridge term.
# Lillith recognises the boundary of her own knowledge (gmeow:awareOfNotKnowing),
# the second-order complement of the cognition knowledge spectrum. The recognised
# gap motivates a question by REUSING inquiry's open-domain gmeow:evokes (the
# not-known subject evokes the question) and the inquiry spine (gmeow:seeksToKnow)
# — there is no gmeow:motivates term (Principle 6), and the bridge to the inquiry
# slice is documented routing, not an entailment. This is the trustworthy-agent
# move: surfacing what it does not know as an open inquiry rather than confabulating.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/metacognition/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:lillith gmeow:seeksToKnow ex:howDoesProtocolXWork .   # the inquiry spine, reused

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record directed inquiry aimed at an epistemics resolution — the agent pursues the question specifically so as to come to gmeow:knowsThat its answer, tying the open inquiry to the epistemics spine.

Avoid when

• Avoid for undirected investigation (use gmeow:inquiresInto) or idle wondering (use gmeow:wondersWhether), and never read it as already knowing; the resolution it aims at is a separate gmeow:knowsThat over an gmeow:answers-claim.

How to use

• Point the agent at the question whose answer it seeks to know; mark the achieved resolution by an gmeow:knowsThat over the accepted gmeow:answers-claim (the epistemics spine), and leave search and ranking of candidate answers to the solver layer (Principle 12).

Scope notes

• A question is OPEN for the agent until the agent gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat an gmeow:answers-claim for it; resolution REUSES the epistemics spine, so there is no new 'resolved' term (Principle 6). Reopening closes the prior accepted answer with gmeow:displayable false (Principle 10), never deletion.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:seeksToKnow ex:whereIsTheKey.