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a change that is at some place during time

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

occurs.event · forms: occur, occurred, occurring, occurs

Examples

Emergence

from: change space time
through: change is at some place and happens during time

Chain to foundations

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.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timetimeL0 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.
full chain as text (6 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used by — 9 more not shownbuilt fromeventL3event.occurrence — a change that occurs in a place during a timemusicL3music.auditory — a pattern of energy changes that occurs again over timeprocessL4process.general — A set of changes that occur in something over time.responseL5response.behavioral — a change that occurs after a difference and interacts with a partspeedL6speed.motion — how much motion occurs per unit of timetestL10test.assessment — a change that occurs in a place during time to compare a thing with a regular patternexperienceL12experience.cognitive — a condition of a subject that results when an event occurs to the subjectstrainL12strain.measurable-degradation — The degradation of output that occurs when a parameter is near the wall of its window, indicating how narrow the currentoccursL2occurs.event — a change that is at some place during timechangeL1change.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 (17)

eventL3musicL3processL4responseL5speedL6testL10experienceL12strainL12verbL12bufferL13feedbackL14cycleL15climateL16frozenL18insuranceL18christmasL19summerL21

Relations

is-ahappen.event-occurrenceis-a

Provenance

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