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A difference that results from a cause.

Effects (noun) means: A difference that results from a cause. It emerges from difference, cause, results: A cause produces a change, and the resulting difference is perceived as an effect. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

effects.result · forms: effect, effects

Examples

Emergence

from: difference cause results
through: A cause produces a change, and the resulting difference is perceived as an effect.

Chain to foundations

happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.spaceL0 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.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.effectsL12 effects.result: A difference that results from a cause.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.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.resultsL11 results.outcome: an outcome that is the difference that follows a changecauseL3 cause.reason: thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thing
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Neighborhood

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

built fromeffectsL12effects.result — A difference that results from a cause.differenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.causeL3cause.reason — thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thingresultsL11results.outcome — an outcome that is the difference that follows a change

Relations

is-aoutcome.resulteffects are a type of outcome

Provenance

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