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a thing that is both great in size and important

Major (adjective) means: a thing that is both great in size and important. It emerges from great, important: when a thing is both great in size and important, it becomes major. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

major.importance · forms: major, majors

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Emergence

from: great important
through: when a thing is both great in size and important, it becomes major

Chain to foundations

peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.greatL13 great.size: thing that is big and goodtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.valueL13 value.worth: how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricematterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.priceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactioninteractingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.actL3 act.deed: do somethinghelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfgoodL12 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingitemsL4 items.object: things that are part of a set and are distinct from each otherpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.meanL9 mean.signify: to be a significance of a thingboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.meaningL8 meaning.significance: a pattern of knowledge that differs from a stateentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingspartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.knowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.politeL11 polite.social: state that respect otherssetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.importantL14 important.significance: an item that has more meaning and more worth than most itemsdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placemajorL15 major.importance: a thing that is both great in size and importantuseL6 use.application: to make something change by acting on itstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.groupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternsurfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.
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Neighborhood

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

built frommajorL15major.importance — a thing that is both great in size and importantgreatL13great.size — thing that is big and goodimportantL14important.significance — an item that has more meaning and more worth than most items

Relations

is-agreat.sizeis-a
is-aimportant.significanceis-a

Provenance

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