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persist while doing something through time

Continue (verb) means: persist while doing something through time. It emerges from persist, repeats, doing, time: When persistence through time combines with repeating an action, the action continues. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 6, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

continue.action · forms: continue, continued, continues, continuing

Examples

Emergence

from: persist repeats doing time
through: When persistence through time combines with repeating an action, the action continues.

Chain to foundations

persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.actionL4 action.deed: A change that is done by a thing.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.repeatsL1 repeats.action: to do a pattern again during timedoingL5 doing.activity: the act of engaging in a deedenergyL0 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.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.actL3 act.deed: do somethingcontinueL6 continue.action: persist while doing something through timeworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacemotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.patternL0 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.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromsiegeL12siege.system — a parameter whose window is walled while its internal drift continuesmomentumL16momentum.retained — drift that continues after the force producing it stopscontinueL6continue.action — persist while doing something through timepersistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.repeatsL1repeats.action — to do a pattern again during timedoingL5doing.activity — the act of engaging in a deedtimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

Used by (2)

siegeL12momentumL16

Relations

is-apersist.continueis-a

Provenance

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