{
  "id": "science.knowledge",
  "term": "science",
  "sense": "knowledge",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "science",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "system organized to get knowledge about matter",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "system.organized",
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "matter.substance",
      "get.acquisition",
      "organized.structure"
    ],
    "interaction": "The organized structure acquires cognitive knowledge about persistent material substances through systematic interaction.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "empirical understanding",
      "repeatable discovery process",
      "theoretical modeling"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope has calibrated its instruments yearly since 1990 to maintain observational accuracy.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Human Genome Project mapped all 3.2 billion base pairs of human DNA by 2003 using collaborative sequencing.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "CERN's Large Hadron Collider detects particle collisions at 13 TeV to probe fundamental matter structure.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "knowledge.cognitive",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "technology.tool",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "medical.health"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "science",
    "sciences"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'get.acquisition' and 'organized.structure' to align with definition. Kept original definition as it correctly reflects the emergent concept."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-science.knowledge"
}