{
  "id": "says.speech",
  "term": "says",
  "sense": "speech",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "says",
  "domain": "speech",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make a message that other distinct entities get",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "message.information",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "distinct.attribute",
      "entities.object",
      "get.acquisition",
      "make.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "information is formed by one entity through the act of making, and acquired by other entities that are distinct from the first.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed information transfer",
      "asymmetrical awareness",
      "intentional communication"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Arecibo Observatory broadcast a coded message toward star cluster M13 in 1974.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census collected self-reported data from 331 million residents.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Python's print() function outputs strings to stdout, visible in terminal sessions.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "said.speech",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "message.information",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "comments.communication",
    "model.representation",
    "story.narrative",
    "talk.spoken",
    "tell.communication",
    "voice.auditory"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "said",
    "say",
    "saying",
    "says"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete as it omitted core constitutive concepts; added missing components to align with correct emergence logic."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-says.speech"
}