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a change in a parameter that crosses a wall only when a previous state had already made the whole exceed its parts.

Network effect (noun) means: a change in a parameter that crosses a wall only when a previous state had already made the whole exceed its parts. It emerges from parameter, wall, whole, part: interaction.process. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

network-effect.threshold · forms: network effect

ordinarily means: the value of a thing increases when more people use it.

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Emergence

from: parameter wall whole part threshold
through: interaction.process

Chain to foundations

energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.wholeL3 whole.complete: All the parts of somethingboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.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.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.differenceL1 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.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.thresholdL15 threshold.boundary: a wall where the parameter's window ends, beyond which the system cannot persist or transforms into something categorically differentchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.network effectL18 network-effect.threshold: a change in a parameter that crosses a wall only when a previous state had already made the whole exceed its parts.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarystateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarypatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.wallL14 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.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.systemL5 system.organized: a set of parts that interact together in a structurerangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.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.

built fromnetwork effectL18network-effect.threshold — a change in a parameter that crosses a wall only when a previous state had already made the whole exceed its parts.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.wallL14wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.wholeL3whole.complete — All the parts of somethingpartL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.thresholdL15threshold.boundary — a wall where the parameter's window ends, beyond which the system cannot persist or transforms into something categorica

Provenance

author: phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — the whole exceeding its parts