The Emergence Machine

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to think that a fact is true

believe.cognitive · forms: believe, believed, believes, believing

Examples

Emergence

from: knowledge fact think true
through: knowledge and fact together think

Chain to foundations

changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingthinkL8 think.cognitive: to bring about new information through the interaction of knowledge and changeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.knowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsbelieveL9 believe.cognitive: to think that a fact is trueinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingnewL4 new.recent: A thing that comes into a setting and has not been there before, or does not persist from before.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.trueL3 true.accurate: to be real and justjustL2 just.exact: that which does not differ from the thing it is aboutfactL4 fact.truth: a thing that is real and truesettingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.realL2 real.actual: a thing that is in space and persists through timepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchsetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.groupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has pattern
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Neighborhood

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

built frombelieveL9believe.cognitive — to think that a fact is trueknowledgeL7knowledge.cognitive — information that people have about somethingfactL4fact.truth — a thing that is real and truethinkL8think.cognitive — to bring about new information through the interaction of knowledge and changetrueL3true.accurate — to be real and justE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Relations

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Provenance

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