{
  "id": "contingency.dependence",
  "term": "contingency",
  "sense": "dependence",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "window ontology",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "resting on a parameter that could have drifted otherwise and did not",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless"
    ],
    "interaction": "relations: [],  lexicon_forms [ ",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unique_properties_feature1",
      "unique_properties_feature2"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit at 400 km, requiring regular boosts to counter atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis erupted when mortgage-backed securities collapsed as housing prices drifted beyond sustainable levels.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Cambrian explosion followed a rise in oceanic phosphate levels, enabling rapid diversification of multicellular life.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "contingency"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-contingency.dependence"
}