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that can happen

Possible (adjective) means: that can happen. It emerges from energy, time, happen: When energy capacity is in time dimension, an event-occurrence can manifest as something possible. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

possible.potential · forms: possible

Examples

Emergence

from: energy time happen
through: When energy capacity is in time dimension, an event-occurrence can manifest as something possible.

Chain to foundations

happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.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.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.possibleL3 possible.potential: that can happenpatternL0 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.

used by — 1 more not shownbuilt fromfutureL4future.temporal — the part of time that is after nowriskL4risk.uncertainty — a possible loss that may happenwishL7wish.emotional — a want for a possible state that differs from nowopportunitiesL11opportunities.economic — a possible condition that may lead to a benefittryL12try.effort — to act with work so that a possible result may happengolfL15golf.sport — a game where people use a tool to move an object toward a hole with as few actions as possibleenablesL16enables.facilitation — to make something possible by providing a resource for itregretL16regret.emotional — A self-model comparing the path taken against a parameter whose window included another path that was possible but not tpossibleL3possible.potential — that can happenenergyL0energy.capacity — That by which things can be not as they were.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.happenL2happen.event-occurrence — A change that is at some place during time.

Used by (9)

futureL4riskL4wishL7opportunitiesL11tryL12golfL15enablesL16regretL16ableL20

Relations

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Provenance

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