{
  "id": "issue.problem",
  "term": "issue",
  "sense": "problem",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "issues",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is different from a previous state",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "state.condition",
      "previous.temporal",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a matter is in a place and its condition is different from a previous condition",
    "novel_properties": [
      "disruption in continuity",
      "emergent discrepancy",
      "recognized change"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown released cesium-137 into the Pacific Ocean, altering marine sediment composition for decades.",
      "domain": "environment"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a global credit freeze, disrupting interbank lending markets within hours.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror, ground to the wrong shape in 1990, produced blurred images until corrected in 1993.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "official.authority",
    "solution.answer"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "issue",
    "issued",
    "issues",
    "issuing"
  ],
  "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 'difference.relation' as a constitutive component since the definition and interaction both hinge on the notion of difference, which was previously omitted from the components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-issue.problem"
}