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a building where people gather to worship

Church (noun) means: a building where people gather to worship. It emerges from building, people, come, worship: people.social come together inside the building.structure for worship.emotional. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

church.religious · forms: church, churches

Examples

Emergence

from: building people come worship
through: people.social come together inside the building.structure for worship.emotional

Chain to foundations

topL13 top.upper: the part of a thing that is on the side that is uppartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inwallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.careL7 care.emotional: people help others when they have a needcarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingnoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.homeL4 home.shelter: A setting where an arrangement of boundaries persists as a place.needL5 need.psychological: a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in 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 patternmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placepoliteL3 polite.social: state that respect othersenterL3 enter.spatial: to move into a placetimeL0 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.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.settingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.relevanceL12 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a wallpersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is therehelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.buildingL16 building.structure: A structure that an arrangement of matter makes to create a sheltered space.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.loveL8 love.emotional: a care that persists between people and is goodcontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.worshipL15 worship.emotional: act of love toward a thingarrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.churchL17 church.religious: a building where people gather to worshipflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarysetsL3 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.energyL0 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.entryL13 entry.place: a location where one can go into a spacematterL1 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 touchingnewL4 new.recent: A thing that comes into a setting and has not been there before, or does not persist from before.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.shelterL15 shelter.protection: a place that covers a thingamountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.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.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placeothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placegoodL6 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.actL3 act.deed: do somethingoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placecoverL14 cover.object: a thing that is on top of another thingboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.createL5 create.production: to make a new thing that was not here beforelinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingslocationL12 location.spatial: a point where a thing is in spacetouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromchurchL17church.religious — a building where people gather to worshipbuildingL16building.structure — A structure that an arrangement of matter makes to create a sheltered space.peopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchcomeL3come.arrive — To move through space until being at some place.worshipL15worship.emotional — act of love toward a thing

Relations

is-abuilding.structurea church is a type of building
enablespeople.socialpeople gather for worship

Provenance

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