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a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.

Doubt (noun) means: a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it. It emerges from model, self-model, window, wide: A self-modeling representation communicates the span of its own uncertainty window by reporting it as broad, leading to behavior that tracks incoming information instead of resisting it. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

doubt.epistemic · forms: doubt, doubts

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Emergence

from: model self-model window wide report track rather range
through: A self-modeling representation communicates the span of its own uncertainty window by reporting it as broad, leading to behavior that tracks incoming information instead of resisting it.

Chain to foundations

extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasmodelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveusualL2 usual.common: a thing that is regular in its occurrence over timetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.ratherL3 rather.comparative: more different than usualbigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.eventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timedoubtL15 doubt.epistemic: a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceregularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timerepeatsL1 repeats.action: to do a pattern again during timemakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timeactL3 act.deed: do somethinggetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.messageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entityconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.wideL4 wide.spatial: has more space extent than usualchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.largeL3 large.size: Having more space than a usual thing has.likeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryarrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundaryobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.lineL10 line.geometric: a set of points with regular arrangement in spacepartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.trackL11 track.path: a line that is where motion repeats in a placeothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionsaysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getself-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.furtherL1 further.degree: more space than beforesetsL3 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.subjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.reportL8 report.information: a message that states information about an eventsurfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or state
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Neighborhood

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

built fromdoubtL15doubt.epistemic — a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.wideL4wide.spatial — has more space extent than usualreportL8report.information — a message that states information about an eventtrackL11track.path — a line that is where motion repeats in a placeratherL3rather.comparative — more different than usualrangeL3range.spatial — the space between two boundaries

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md