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A change that is at some place during time.

Happen (verb) means: A change that is at some place during time. It emerges from change, space, time: Change located at a place and ordered in time. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 2, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

happen.event-occurrence · forms: happen, happened, happening, happens

Examples

Emergence

from: change space time
through: Change located at a place and ordered in time.

Chain to foundations

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.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.
full chain as text (6 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used by — 17 more not shownbuilt fromcauseL3cause.reason — thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thinglawL3law.rule — a regular pattern that is what will happen when a thing is with another thingpossibleL3possible.potential — that can happensettingL3setting.contextual — A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.workL3work.effort — a change that happens when energy moves something through spacealreadyL4already.temporal — by now a happen event that was previousclickL4click.mechanical — When parts touch together and a change happensnewL4new.recent — A thing that comes into a setting and has not been there before, or does not persist from before.happenL2happen.event-occurrence — A change that is at some place during time.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

Used by (25)

causeL3lawL3possibleL3settingL3workL3alreadyL4clickL4newL4riskL4siteL4onceL5recentL5electricityL6connectsL7necessaryL7newsL7holidayL8policyL8reportL8dueL9followsL9reasonL10tryL12leisureL14annualL24

Relations

abstractschange.processhappen is a broader notion of change located in time and place
contrasts-withpersist.continuethings that happen are temporary; things that persist continue

Provenance

author: openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6