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A setting where an arrangement of boundaries persists as a place.

Home (noun) means: A setting where an arrangement of boundaries persists as a place. It emerges from setting, structure, arrangement, boundary: A setting and an arrangement of boundaries together persist as a place. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

home.shelter · forms: home, homed, homes, homing

Examples

Emergence

from: setting structure arrangement boundary persist space
through: A setting and an arrangement of boundaries together persist as a place.

Chain to foundations

persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.homeL4 home.shelter: A setting where an arrangement of boundaries persists as a place.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.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.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.settingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts 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.

used bybuilt fromfamilyL7family.social — A set of people who stay in a home and like each other.buildingL16building.structure — A structure that an arrangement of matter makes to create a sheltered space.innL17inn.lodging — a place that provides shelter and rooms for peoplehomeL4home.shelter — A setting where an arrangement of boundaries persists as a place.settingL3setting.contextual — A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.structureL2structure.arrangement — The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.arrangementL3arrangement.spatial — a structure of parts in space.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.persistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.

Used by (3)

familyL7buildingL16innL17

Relations

is-asetting.contextualis-a

Provenance

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