{
  "id": "possibility.potential",
  "term": "possibility",
  "sense": "potential",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "abstract",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A window that can be reached from the current window without crossing a wall that is closed.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "close.spatial",
      "cross.symbol",
      "current.fluid",
      "reach.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components together describe how unimpeded change along a parameter can allow movement from one bounded state to another through an open boundary.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "accessible states",
      "unblocked transitions",
      "contiguous ranges"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit through periodic reboosts to counteract atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2003, the Northeast Blackout spread because one overloaded transmission line hit trees that hadn't been trimmed.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "CRISPR-Cas9 edits DNA only when guide RNA finds a matching sequence in the genome.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "possibilities",
    "possibility"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "The original definition used metaphors that relied on spatial and structural concepts not listed in components. Those concepts were added to components to fully ground the definition. Definition was s"
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md",
      "replaced": "A window that can be reached from the current window without crossing a closed wall."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-possibility.potential"
}