{
  "id": "pure.state",
  "term": "pure",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A parameter whose window is narrow across the whole substrate, allowing one condition to persist without variation.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "persist.continue",
      "across.spatial",
      "allow.permission",
      "condition.state",
      "substrate.level",
      "whole.complete"
    ],
    "interaction": "These components work together to maintain a stable condition by constraining variation across the full extent of a supporting level.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unvarying state over space and time",
      "global constraint enforcement",
      "condition stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains a cabin pressure of 101.3 kPa, within 1 kPa tolerance, for crew survival.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Liquid water remains at 0°C while melting in a room held at exactly 0°C, with no temperature fluctuation.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Swiss National Bank held the franc’s euro exchange rate at 1.20 for three years, resisting market shifts.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "the-three-tiers.structure"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "pure"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Definition revised to more accurately reflect the emergent structure without padding; missing constitutive concepts added to components. 'windows.opening' was irrelevant and omitted."
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md",
      "replaced": "A parameter whose range is narrow across the entire substrate, enabling a single condition to endure without change."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pure.state"
}