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something that is before another thing in time

Precedes (verb) means: something that is before another thing in time. It emerges from time, difference: time.dimension gives an ordering while difference.relation distinguishes two things, together they make one thing comes before another. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 2, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

precedes.temporal · forms: precede, preceded, precedes, preceding

Examples

Emergence

from: time difference
through: time.dimension gives an ordering while difference.relation distinguishes two things, together they make one thing comes before another

Chain to foundations

patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.precedesL2 precedes.temporal: something that is before another thing in timetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromthirdL17third.ordinal — the position in a sequence that follows second and precedes fourchicken and eggL18chicken-and-egg.stacked — Two things that each require the other to exist, making a wall that cannot be crossed by starting from either side alonewednesdayL20wednesday.temporal — the day of a week that follows tuesday and precedes thursdayahead of its timeL24ahead-of-its-time.premature — a thing whose model is wrong because it precedes the self-model that would later hold it, so its window has not yet opendecemberL25december.date — the last month of a year, following the previous month and preceding the nextoctoberL25october.month — the month that follows the previous month and precedes the next month each yearseptemberL25september.calendar — a month that follows a previous month and precedes a next monthnovemberL26november.date — the month that follows october and precedes decemberprecedesL2precedes.temporal — something that is before another thing in timetimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.differenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.

Used by (8)

thirdL17chicken and eggL18wednesdayL20ahead of its timeL24decemberL25octoberL25septemberL25novemberL26

Provenance

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