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people together in a place at a time to interact

Meeting (noun) means: people together in a place at a time to interact. It emerges from people, space, time, interaction: people are in a place at a time and interact through mutual touch, changing each other over time. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

meeting.social · forms: meet, meeting, meetings, meets, met

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Emergence

from: people space time interaction interacting
through: people are in a place at a time and interact through mutual touch, changing each other over time

Chain to foundations

persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.setsL3 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.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.meetingL7 meeting.social: people together in a place at a time to interactothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingstimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchinggroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patterntouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.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.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touch
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromcouncilL8council.governance — a group of people in a meeting to act for a communityclubL10club.social — a group of people who share a purpose and meet regularly to carry out eventsconferenceL14conference.social — a meeting where many people meet to have a discussionmeetingL7meeting.social — people together in a place at a time to interactpeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchspaceL0space.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.interactionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.interactingL4interacting.social — when two things change each other while touching

Used by (3)

councilL8clubL10conferenceL14

Relations

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is-asocial.relationalis-a

Provenance

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