{
  "id": "freedom.range",
  "term": "freedom",
  "sense": "range",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "the width of a parameter's window within which a thing can persist",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "persist.continue"
    ],
    "interaction": "the difference between two walls defines the range of a window",
    "novel_properties": [
      "endurance within bounds",
      "conditional persistence",
      "viable span"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit between 370–460 km altitude using periodic reboosts to counter atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human heart sustains function within a blood pH range of 7.35 to 7.45 despite dietary and metabolic fluctuations.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin's protocol adjusts mining difficulty every 2016 blocks to keep average block time near 10 minutes.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "freedom"
  ],
  "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 'range.spatial' (not constitutive of parameter persistence) and 'windows.opening' (too specific, not referenced in definition). Added 'persist.continue' as it is essential to the concept of pe"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-freedom.range"
}