{
  "id": "actuality.state",
  "term": "actuality",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "ontology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "the same window, occupied",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "occupied.spatial",
      "window.range"
    ],
    "interaction": "The spatial occupancy persists within the structural boundary of an opening, maintaining continuity through the same window.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent location",
      "bounded presence",
      "continuous occupancy"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains its orbit at 400 km altitude through periodic reboosts from attached thrusters.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The US Federal Reserve sets interest rates eight times a year to sustain price stability near a 2% inflation target.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons in the visual cortex fire continuously when viewing a static scene, sustaining perceptual presence.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "actuality"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'window.range' and 'parameter.condition' as they are not reflected in the canonical definition. Added 'occupied.spatial' and 'windows.opening' as these are directly implied by 'the same window"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-actuality.state"
}