{
  "id": "choose.decision",
  "term": "choose",
  "sense": "decision",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "choose.decision",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to select a choice among others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "select.choice",
      "difference.relation",
      "choice.decision",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "Selecting a choice from distinct options that differ from one another creates the act of choosing.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "selection among options",
      "distinction-based decision",
      "intentional differentiation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mars Rover Opportunity selected a path around the dune field in 2005 to continue its journey to Victoria Crater.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, voters in Georgia chose Joseph R. Biden Jr. over Donald J. Trump by a margin of 11,779 votes.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "When presented with two levers, a lab rat in Skinner's 1948 experiment consistently chose the one delivering food reward.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "select.choice",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "the-compression-claim.assertion"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "choose",
    "chooses",
    "choosing",
    "chose",
    "chosen"
  ],
  "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": "Original record omitted two constitutive concepts ('choice.decision' and 'others.distinct-entities') that the definition depends on. Added them to components to align record with correct definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-choose.decision"
}