The Emergence Machine

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the time since a thing began

age.temporal · forms: age, aged, ages, aging

Examples

Emergence

from: time change since
through: time starts when a thing began and persists through change, marked by the duration from that point to now

Chain to foundations

changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.sinceL2 since.temporal: from a previous time until nowageL3 age.temporal: the time since a thing beganpreviousL1 previous.temporal: a thing that is before now in timetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt frommatureL8mature.development — when a thing has more growth and age than most things and shows big sizeageL3age.temporal — the time since a thing begantimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.sinceL2since.temporal — from a previous time until nowE0 concrete → E14 abstract

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matureL8

Relations

abstractstime.dimensionage abstracts time
is-aexample.temporalage is a kind of temporal example

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6