{
  "id": "ideas.cognitive",
  "term": "ideas",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 23,
  "arena": "ideas",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a meaning that is in mind about something not here",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "mind.cognitive",
      "meaning.significance",
      "mean.signify"
    ],
    "interaction": "the mind forms a meaning about something that is not here",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mental representation",
      "absent referent",
      "intentional content"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Newton conceived the idea of universal gravitation while formulating the laws of motion in 1687.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A neuron fires in a rat's hippocampus when it imagines a path through a maze it hasn't run.",
      "domain": "neuroscience"
    },
    {
      "text": "Ada Lovelace wrote algorithms for Babbage’s Analytical Engine, envisioning computing beyond calculation.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "meaning.significance",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "mind.cognitive",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "idea",
    "ideas"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "definition was factually incomplete; added 'mean.signify' as constitutive for forming meaning about something absent"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ideas.cognitive"
}