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a person that is part of a family and is in growth

Children (noun) means: a person that is part of a family and is in growth. It emerges from people, family, growth, part: When a person is in a family through a part-whole relation and undergoes physical development, the emergent phenomenon is a child. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 8, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

children.human · forms: child, children

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Emergence

from: people family growth part
through: When a person is in a family through a part-whole relation and undergoes physical development, the emergent phenomenon is a child.

Chain to foundations

partL1 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.childrenL8 children.human: a person that is part of a family and is in growthstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.familyL7 family.social: A set of people who stay in a home and like each other.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.settingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.setsL3 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.growthL2 growth.development: more matter in a place over timeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinghomeL4 home.shelter: A setting where an arrangement of boundaries persists as a place.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternlikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromteenL9teen.age — a person who is in the period between childhood and adulthoodchildrenL8children.human — a person that is part of a family and is in growthpeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchfamilyL7family.social — A set of people who stay in a home and like each other.growthL2growth.development — more matter in a place over timepartL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.

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teenL9

Relations

is-apeople.socialis-a

Provenance

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