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Potential (noun) means: a window that is open and unoccupied. It emerges from open, unoccupied, window: The open.spatial and unoccupied.spatial conditions together with a window.range create a passable, vacant span within a bounded range, allowing potential for passage or occupation. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

potential.capacity · forms: capacities, capacity, potential, potentials

Examples

Emergence

from: open unoccupied window
through: The open.spatial and unoccupied.spatial conditions together with a window.range create a passable, vacant span within a bounded range, allowing potential for passage or occupation.

Chain to foundations

windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.definesL6 defines.verb: To make a pattern that establishes the boundary of what a thing is by how it differs from others.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inpotentialL18 potential.capacity: a window that is open and unoccupiedcarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.fallL3 fall.gravity: When a thing moves down in space during time.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingreceiveL6 receive.communication: to get something that comes to a placenoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternmotionL2 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.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placesubstanceL12 substance.material: what remains through the drift a window toleratestimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.unoccupiedL9 unoccupied.spatial: a place where no thing occupiespatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.settingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacegiveL7 give.transfer: to make a piece go to otherspersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereestablishesL5 establishes.verb: To make a pattern that persists in space and time by setting its boundaries through interaction.maintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacesomeoneL7 someone.person: any personmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.relatedL4 related.association: When both things are about the same pattern.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.pieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundarysideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.provideL8 provide.supply: to give something to someone so that they have itcontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.surroundedL4 surrounded.enclosed: A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.openL17 open.spatial: a state where a boundary limit is absent, enabling something to move into spatial extentflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarysetsL3 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.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.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.spatialL13 spatial.location: related to where a thing is in spaceamountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberkeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statepossibleL3 possible.potential: that can happenstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionresourceL15 resource.material: output falling within the input window of a nearby system. The same substance, different neighbourhood.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placesystemL5 system.organized: a set of parts that interact together in a structureholdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveholesL7 holes.empty-regions: Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeoccupiedL8 occupied.spatial: A space where matter is in and so not a hole.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.enablesL16 enables.facilitation: to make something possible by providing a resource for itlinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingslocationL12 location.spatial: a point where a thing is in spacetouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromabilityL19ability.capacity — a capacity to do something that results from having enough energy and a regular pattern of process.burnoutL19burnout.capacity — maintenance sustained past the rate at which the maintaining capacity is restored, until that capacity leaves its own wihealthL19health.condition — A state condition of matter that persists while its energy capacity follows a regular pattern.hotL19hot.temperature — a state where a matter has more energy capacity than usual for that kind of matterpowerL19power.energy — the capacity to produce change through movement in space over timesurplusL19surplus.excess — Output that exceeds the capacity of input windows to consume it.potentialL18potential.capacity — a window that is open and unoccupiedopenL17open.spatial — a state where a boundary limit is absent, enabling something to move into spatial extentunoccupiedL9unoccupied.spatial — a place where no thing occupieswindowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.

Used by (6)

abilityL19burnoutL19healthL19hotL19powerL19surplusL19

Relations

is-apossible.potentialpotential is a kind of possible capacity
abstractsenergy.capacitypotential abstracts the notion of capacity

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md