good enough · threshold

The nearness of a wall where maintenance has stopped because the model assumes the current state will persist, though drift is already narrowing the window.

Good enough (noun) means: The nearness of a wall where maintenance has stopped because the model assumes the current state will persist, though drift is already narrowing the window. It emerges from wall, drift, maintenance, model: model and drift. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ordinarily means: Acceptable without being perfect.

Examples

• The Fukushima Daiichi reactors required continuous cooling even after shutdown, but backup batteries lasted only 8 hours when external power failed. engineering
• The Aral Sea shrank by 90% after Soviet irrigation diverted rivers that once sustained its water level. environment
• Windows XP remained in use on 25% of PCs a decade after support ended, exposing systems to unpatched vulnerabilities. computing

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

Provenance