# never (temporal)

not at any time

- Computed level: L1 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: time.dimension  ·  Arena: never

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [pattern](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pattern.regularity)

**Through:** time.dimension supplies all moments while pattern.regularity supplies the idea of an occurrence, together allowing the claim that no moment has the occurrence

**Novel properties:**
- absolute temporal negation
- absence of occurrence

## Examples
- The city of Venice has never frozen solid in recorded history, despite winter temperatures near 0°C. *(geography)*
- The U.S. Constitution has never been amended to remove voting rights from a previously enfranchised group. *(institutions)*
- The software library jQuery has never had a version numbered 4.0 released as of 2023. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [autonomy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-autonomy.self-governed) (L15)
- [reputation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reputation.social-model) (L15)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-never.temporal*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-never.temporal.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*