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precedes · temporal

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something that is before another thing in time

precedes.temporal · forms: precede, preceded, precedes, preceding

Examples

Emergence

from: time difference
through: time.dimension gives an ordering while difference.relation distinguishes two things, together they make one thing comes before another

Chain to foundations

precedesL2 precedes.temporal: something that is before another thing in timetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromthirdL13third.ordinal — the position in a sequence that follows second and precedes fourdecemberL14december.date — the last month of a year, following the previous month and preceding the nextoctoberL14october.month — the month that follows the previous month and precedes the next month each yearseptemberL14september.calendar — a month that follows a previous month and precedes a next monthnovemberL15november.date — the month that follows october and precedes decemberwednesdayL16wednesday.temporal — the day of a week that follows tuesday and precedes thursdayahead of its timeL23ahead-of-its-time.premature — a thing whose model is wrong because it precedes the self-model that would later hold it, so its window has not yet openprecedesL2precedes.temporal — something that is before another thing in timetimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.differenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

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thirdL13decemberL14octoberL14septemberL14novemberL15wednesdayL16ahead of its timeL23

Provenance

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