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a series of events about people that are said in language to share meaning

Story (noun) means: a series of events about people that are said in language to share meaning. It emerges from event, people, language, said: the events about people are said in language, forming an ordered series. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

story.narrative · forms: stories, story

Examples

Emergence

from: event people language said says series mean meaning share
through: the events about people are said in language, forming an ordered series

Chain to foundations

extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter haspeopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.orderL8 order.arrangement: a parameter whose window is narrowtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.saidL8 said.speech: to make a message for othersstoryL17 story.narrative: a series of events about people that are said in language to share meaningeventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timematterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.receiveL6 receive.communication: to get something that comes to a placeregularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timelanguageL16 language.communication: a structure of signs with meaning arranged in regular patternsnarrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchinggetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to yousignL15 sign.symbolic: A visual mark that conveys meaning through regularity of form.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timeinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placemessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitydistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggivenL7 given.premise: a thing that is information in a settingrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.meanL9 mean.signify: to be a significance of a thingboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placeshowL7 show.visual: to make something be seenchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.pieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundarymotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundaryarrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.meaningL8 meaning.significance: a pattern of knowledge that differs from a stateentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgiveL7 give.transfer: to make a piece go to otherssettingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.portionL3 portion.share: a part of a thing that has its own boundarypartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.knowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.previousL1 previous.temporal: a thing that is before now in timefollowsL9 follows.sequential: to move after something in time with the same order as it happensseeL6 see.visual: change when matter interacts with marks visible in space extentsizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is insetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placewindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.visualL7 visual.perceptual: information that is a set of marks on a surfaceparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.groupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternsmallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsshareL8 share.distribution: a portion of a thing that is given to otherssurfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.seriesL10 series.ordered: a set that is ordered so each part follows the previoussaysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities get
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt from — 1 more not shownnarrativeL18narrative.self-story — A story a self model tells about its own past and future, which sets which actions read as its own.rationalizationL18rationalization.backfill — a cause made after the act so that the act reads as inside the self-model's window, a story that edits the event rather american dreamL19american-dream.upward-reach — A collective self's story that each member, from any window it starts in, can enter a wider one by its own action.asian centuryL19asian-century.claimed-future — A story giving a coming period to one collective self, as the time in which its reach will set most walls on others.right side of historyL19right-side-of-history.destined — A story reading history as moving toward one final state already set, so current acts are read by whether they move withstoryL17story.narrative — a series of events about people that are said in language to share meaningeventL3event.occurrence — a change that occurs in a place during a timepeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchlanguageL16language.communication — a structure of signs with meaning arranged in regular patternssaidL8said.speech — to make a message for otherssaysL8says.speech — to make a message that other distinct entities getseriesL10series.ordered — a set that is ordered so each part follows the previousmeanL9mean.signify — to be a significance of a thingmeaningL8meaning.significance — a pattern of knowledge that differs from a state

Used by (5)

narrativeL18rationalizationL18american dreamL19asian centuryL19right side of historyL19

Relations

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Provenance

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