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When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.

difference.relation · forms: differ, difference, differences, different, differs

Examples

Emergence

from: pattern
through: Two patterns compared fail to match.

Chain to foundations

differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.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 frombigL2big.size — Having much space; more space than another thing has.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.errorL2error.mistake — a difference that is not regularfarL2far.distance — more space than beforefemaleL2female.sex — a matter that differs from other matterjustL2just.exact — that which does not differ from the thing it is aboutlossL2loss.economic — When a thing that was here is not here after, there is a difference.nearL2near.spatial — when the space between two things is lessdifferenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.patternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

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Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 1.0