{
  "id": "else.other",
  "term": "else",
  "sense": "other",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "else",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "in another way or different from the previous thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "difference.relation",
      "way.method",
      "previous.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "the presence of a distinct other together with the relation of difference, a way, and a prior temporal reference creates the idea of an alternative option",
    "novel_properties": [
      "alternative option",
      "temporal precedence",
      "relational contrast"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake shifted Japan's coastline by up to 4.4 meters, altering local geography permanently.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1967, the Six-Day War redrew Israel's borders, creating military occupations distinct from prior sovereignty.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Apollo 13 mission aborted lunar landing and looped around the Moon, returning crew by a different reentry path.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "others.distinct-entities",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "just.exact",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "else"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'previous.temporal' to components since the definition relies on 'previous' as a constitutive concept; interaction updated accordingly."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-else.other"
}