{
  "id": "according.agreement",
  "term": "according",
  "sense": "agreement",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "according",
  "domain": "lexicon",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "as stated by the source",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "source.origin",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a recognized difference aligns with a regular pattern, it creates a cue that points to a source of information.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "attribution to origin",
      "conditional alignment",
      "persistent pattern reference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "According to the 2020 U.S. Census, Texas had a population of 29,145,505 residents.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "According to Newton’s second law, force equals mass times acceleration in classical mechanics.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "According to Python 3.10 documentation, the 'match' statement was introduced in that version.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "relation.association",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "source.origin",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "according"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "The original components list omitted two constitutive concepts—source.origin and state.condition—necessary to support the given definition. These have been added to align the record with the definitio"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-according.agreement"
}