{
  "id": "condition.state",
  "term": "condition",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "condition",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state of a thing that persists through time in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "state.condition",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "time.dimension",
      "persist.continue",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "its pattern persists through time in a place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "enduring presence",
      "spatiotemporal stability",
      "continued manifestation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Pacific Ocean has remained liquid at 15°C average for the last 10,000 years despite daily evaporation and rainfall.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains a pressurized atmosphere of 101.3 kPa while orbiting Earth every 90 minutes.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has operated under continuous amendment since 1789, with Article V enabling its procedural updates.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "agreement.social",
    "benefits.advantage",
    "climate.weather",
    "drug.chemical",
    "experience.cognitive",
    "express.communication",
    "health.condition",
    "learn.cognitive",
    "need.psychological",
    "non.negation",
    "opportunities.economic",
    "parameter.condition",
    "pure.state",
    "required.obligation",
    "requirements.obligation",
    "responsibility.moral",
    "review.assessment",
    "rights.moral",
    "security.safety",
    "self.personal",
    "terms.language",
    "treatment.medical",
    "wealth.range",
    "weather.atmospheric",
    "whether.conditional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "condition",
    "conditioned",
    "conditioning",
    "conditions"
  ],
  "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": "definition was correct but relied on unstated components; added persist.continue and space.extent to components to align with definition's ontological commitments."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-condition.state"
}