The Emergence Machine

increase · quantity

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when a thing changes so its size is more than before

increase.quantity · forms: increase, increased, increases, increasing

Examples

Emergence

from: change difference size time
through: A change over time creates a difference that makes the size greater.

Chain to foundations

increaseL3 increase.quantity: when a thing changes so its size is more than beforedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
as tree

Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt frombenefitsL4benefits.advantage — a difference that increases a conditioncancerL17cancer.disease — a change when cells grow more than usual and differ from normal in structure or functionsummerL21summer.season — the warmest season of the year, occurring when Earth's axial tilt causes increased sunlight duration and intensityincreaseL3increase.quantity — when a thing changes so its size is more than beforechangeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.differenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.sizeL2size.measurement — the space that a thing's matter is intimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (3)

benefitsL4cancerL17summerL21

Relations

is-achange.processincrease is a kind of change

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6