Whether an action is considered a process or a culminated process depends on whether a culmination condition (default or otherwise) is specified. Processes do not have ``culminations'' associated with them; that is, processes just end, with no consequences attached to their ending. Culminated processes, on the other hand, can only be said to have occurred or be completed if they have reached their culmination, in which case the consequences are that the culmination conditions hold.
Figure: Culmination conditions as a series of
disjunctive-sensor-queries
Culmination conditions, or the conditions that will hold when an action
is completed, are also a series of queries like applicability
conditions, however they are restricted to queries of the agent's
sensors (see Figure 
). That is, the only way an
agent is allowed to determine information about the world is through its
sensors. For instance, an agent cannot simply query an object, say the
lid of a jar, to see if it loose; the agent must query a sensor to find
out if the lid is loose. So, instead of a query such as
loose(lid), the agent must use a query such as sense(loose(lid))
in order to determine whether the culmination condition in the action
``Turn lid until loose'' holds. Such sensing processes are needed
independently of the need to represent culmination conditions (see
Section ).