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a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.

Doubt (noun) means: a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it. It emerges from model, self-model, window, wide: A self-modeling representation communicates the span of its own uncertainty window by reporting it as broad, leading to behavior that tracks incoming information instead of resisting it. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

doubt.epistemic · forms: doubt, doubts

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Emergence

from: model self-model window wide report track rather range
through: A self-modeling representation communicates the span of its own uncertainty window by reporting it as broad, leading to behavior that tracks incoming information instead of resisting it.

Chain to foundations

repeatsL1 repeats.action: to do a pattern again during timesubjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventtrackL11 track.path: a line that is where motion repeats in 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.modelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryself-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.reportL8 report.information: a message that states information about an eventforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveextentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasmatterL1 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 boundarieslikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.actL3 act.deed: do somethingeventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timegetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youlineL10 line.geometric: a set of points with regular arrangement in spaceusualL2 usual.common: a thing that is regular in its occurrence over timemessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitymakeL4 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.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timepointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeputL3 put.placement: to move something into 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.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinginsideL5 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 spaceratherL3 rather.comparative: more different than usualpersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.furtherL1 further.degree: more space than beforelargeL3 large.size: Having more space than a usual thing has.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.wideL4 wide.spatial: has more space extent than usualprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.windowL7 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.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.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.doubtL15 doubt.epistemic: a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.patternL0 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 fromdoubtL15doubt.epistemic — a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.wideL4wide.spatial — has more space extent than usualreportL8report.information — a message that states information about an eventtrackL11track.path — a line that is where motion repeats in a placeratherL3rather.comparative — more different than usualrangeL3range.spatial — the space between two boundaries

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md