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something that is before another thing in time

Precedes (verb) means: something that is before another thing in time. It emerges from time, difference: time.dimension gives an ordering while difference.relation distinguishes two things, together they make one thing comes before another. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 2, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

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

differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.precedesL2 precedes.temporal: something that is before another thing in timepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromchicken and eggL13chicken-and-egg.stacked — Two things that each require the other to exist, making a wall that cannot be crossed by starting from either side alonethirdL13third.ordinal — the position in a sequence that follows second and precedes fourwednesdayL16wednesday.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 opendecemberL24december.date — the last month of a year, following the previous month and preceding the nextoctoberL24october.month — the month that follows the previous month and precedes the next month each yearseptemberL24september.calendar — a month that follows a previous month and precedes a next monthnovemberL25november.date — the month that follows october and precedes decemberprecedesL2precedes.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.

Used by (8)

chicken and eggL13thirdL13wednesdayL16ahead of its timeL23decemberL24octoberL24septemberL24novemberL25

Provenance

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