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an item that has more meaning and more value than most items

Important (adjective) means: an item that has more meaning and more value than most items. It emerges from meaning, value, items, mean: their higher degree together makes a thing stand out as significant. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 14, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

important.significance · forms: important, importantly

Examples

Emergence

from: meaning value items mean
through: their higher degree together makes a thing stand out as significant

Chain to foundations

informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchinghelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctpoliteL11 polite.social: state that respect othersitemsL4 items.object: things that are part of a set and are distinct from each othersetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.importantL14 important.significance: an item that has more meaning and more value than most itemsvalueL13 value.worth: how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.knowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepriceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionpartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgoodL12 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpuseL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.meaningL8 meaning.significance: a pattern of knowledge that differs from a statetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.meanL9 mean.signify: to be a significance of a thingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt frommajorL15major.importance — a thing that is both great in size and importantprimaryL15primary.importance — the most important and first in orderimportantL14important.significance — an item that has more meaning and more value than most itemsmeaningL8meaning.significance — a pattern of knowledge that differs from a statevalueL13value.worth — how something's distinctness or utility determines its priceitemsL4items.object — things that are part of a set and are distinct from each othermeanL9mean.signify — to be a significance of a thing

Used by (2)

majorL15primaryL15

Relations

is-ameaning.significanceimportant is a kind of significance
is-avalue.worthimportant carries extra worth

Provenance

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