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a soft part that covers a body

Fur (noun) means: a soft part that covers a body. It emerges from stuff, part, body, cover: the material is a part that covers a body and is soft. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

fur.material · forms: fur, furred, furring, furs

Examples

Emergence

from: stuff part body cover soft
through: the material is a part that covers a body and is soft

Chain to foundations

valueL7 value.magnitude: The number a parameter has at a time.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.stuffL2 stuff.material: things that are matter and remain in space through timeconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.smallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarybodyL15 body.physical: a piece of matter that has a form and exists in spacetopL13 top.upper: the part of a thing that is on the side that is upsideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.softL14 soft.physical: not hardcontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingextentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hashappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.furL16 fur.material: a soft part that covers a bodylinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placecomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.wallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.relevanceL12 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a wallnarrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placequantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.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 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.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.formL14 form.shape: The shape of the window, as opposed to whatever is occupying it.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is therepieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundarycoverL14 cover.object: a thing that is on top of another thingparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.driftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placetouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.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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Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromdogL17dog.animal — a big size live biological thing with furfurL16fur.material — a soft part that covers a bodystuffL2stuff.material — things that are matter and remain in space through timepartL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.bodyL15body.physical — a piece of matter that has a form and exists in spacecoverL14cover.object — a thing that is on top of another thingsoftL14soft.physical — not hard

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