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a set of people that interact together

Community (noun) means: a set of people that interact together. It emerges from sets, people, interaction, interacting: people within the set interact with each other through mutual touch, forming a shared social grouping. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

community.social · forms: communities, community

Examples

Emergence

from: sets people interaction interacting
through: people within the set interact with each other through mutual touch, forming a shared social grouping.

Chain to foundations

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.communityL7 community.social: a set of people that interact togetherspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.groupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patterntimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingtouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touch
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromcouncilL8council.governance — a group of people in a meeting to act for a communitysocialL8social.relational — about people that interact together in a communitytownL8town.settlement — A community where people live inside boundaries.communityL7community.social — a set of people that interact togethersetsL3sets.grouped — A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about thempeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchinteractionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.interactingL4interacting.social — when two things change each other while touching

Used by (3)

councilL8socialL8townL8

Provenance

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