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a model that treats the real as separate from the general, when the real is what persists through the interaction of parts at a boundary

On the ground (noun) means: a model that treats the real as separate from the general, when the real is what persists through the interaction of parts at a boundary. It emerges from model, real, general, interaction: between parts at a boundary. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 14, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

on-the-ground.local · forms: on the ground

ordinarily means: what is actually happening in a specific place

Examples

Emergence

from: model real general interaction boundary persist
through: between parts at a boundary

Chain to foundations

partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed 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.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.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.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.actL3 act.deed: do somethingrealL2 real.actual: a thing that is in space and persists through timedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingsaysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.modelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingslikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.messageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entityothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.generalL3 general.broad: a thing that is about many other thing and not about one thingon the groundL14 on-the-ground.local: a model that treats the real as separate from the general, when the real is what persists through the interaction of parts at a boundarypatternL0 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.

built fromon the groundL14on-the-ground.local — a model that treats the real as separate from the general, when the real is what persists through the interaction of parmodelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.realL2real.actual — a thing that is in space and persists through timegeneralL3general.broad — a thing that is about many other thing and not about one thinginteractionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.persistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.

Provenance

author: phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — levels and abstraction