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a parameter that is inside the windows of each, causing their boundaries to touch, so the connection can persist without maintenance

Common ground (noun) means: a parameter that is inside the windows of each, causing their boundaries to touch, so the connection can persist without maintenance. It emerges from parameter, window, boundary, touch: when the windows intersect, the boundaries touch and the connection persists without maintenance. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

common-ground.overlap · forms: common ground

ordinarily means: shared basis for agreement or cooperation

Examples

Emergence

from: parameter window boundary touch connection maintenance cause
through: when the windows intersect, the boundaries touch and the connection persists without maintenance

Chain to foundations

structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.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.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.causeL3 cause.reason: thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thingholdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movemotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsconnectionL9 connection.social: a link between things that can be togethermakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacecarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.maintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.common groundL15 common-ground.overlap: a parameter that is inside the windows of each, causing their boundaries to touch, so the connection can persist without maintenancepatternL0 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.

built fromcommon groundL15common-ground.overlap — a parameter that is inside the windows of each, causing their boundaries to touch, so the connection can persist withoutparameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.touchL3touch.together — When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.connectionL9connection.social — a link between things that can be togethermaintenanceL14maintenance.upkeep — Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.causeL3cause.reason — thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thing

Provenance

author: phrases:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — bonds and their maintenance