{
  "id": "permanence.enduring",
  "term": "permanence",
  "sense": "enduring",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "abstract",
  "domain": "window.range",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a window wide relative to every drift that can reach it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "reach.spatial",
      "wide.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "A property emerges when a window's range is wide compared to all possible aimless changes (drifts) that could push a parameter beyond its boundary.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "endurance against disruption",
      "relative spatial width",
      "boundary resilience"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Iguazú Falls have eroded the cliff edge 20 kilometers over 150,000 years, yet the waterfall remains continuous.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe still transmits data after 47 years, its trajectory unchanged beyond the heliosphere.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Japanese Imperial succession has continued without interruption for over 1,700 years, per official records.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "permanence"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'windows.opening' as a constitutive concept implied in the canonical definition; retained others only where directly relevant. Removed no components as all declared ones plus the added concept a"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-permanence.enduring"
}