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To cause a change in the state of something over time.

Affect (verb) means: To cause a change in the state of something over time. It emerges from change, state: A change in a persistent condition produces an affect. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

affect.emotional · forms: affect, affected, affecting, affects

Emergence

from: change state
through: A change in a persistent condition produces an affect.

Chain to foundations

stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeaffectL4 affect.emotional: To cause a change in the state of something over time.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.
full chain as text (11 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built fromaffectL4affect.emotional — To cause a change in the state of something over time.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.stateL2state.condition — a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a place

Relations

enablescause.reasonA cause can affect a state

Provenance

author: openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6