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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

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

touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionwindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.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.causeL3 cause.reason: thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thingdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.connectionL9 connection.social: a link between things that can be togetherpersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.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 maintenancechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placematterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarycontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.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.carryingL5 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.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesmaintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.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.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not move
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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