{
  "id": "existence.state",
  "term": "existence",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "ontology",
  "domain": "abstract",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "occupancy of a window",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range"
    ],
    "interaction": "The range of a parameter and the structure of an opening together determine whether something is present within a bounded region.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "presence within bounds",
      "structural containment",
      "bounded persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintained orbit at 400 km for over 25 years through periodic reboosts from visiting spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has remained in force since 1789, structuring governance through amendments and judicial interpretation.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A superconducting magnet at CERN sustains a persistent current in a closed niobium-tin coil at 1.9 K for years.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "alive.biological",
    "buffer.region",
    "delicate.window",
    "exhaustion.capacity",
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "pressure.ontological",
    "repair.restore",
    "stress.condition"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "existence"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'parameter.condition' as it is not conceptually required by the definition 'occupancy of a window'. Added 'windows.opening' as it is constitutive of the notion of a window as a bounded region."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-existence.state"
}