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the piece of a thing that be given in an interaction

Price (noun) means: the piece of a thing that be given in an interaction. It emerges from interaction, difference: the interaction and the difference together be that a thing be given for other thing. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 8, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

price.economic · forms: price, priced, prices, pricing

Examples

Emergence

from: interaction difference
through: the interaction and the difference together be that a thing be given for other thing

Chain to foundations

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.priceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactiontimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt frombuyL9buy.economic — to get a product by giving pricediscountL9discount.economic — price that is less per original pricesellerL9seller.commercial — person who offers product for pricevalueL9value.worth — how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricecheapL10cheap.economic — lower in price than what is typically considered its worthmoneyL16money.economic — a resource that is a property of price and worksaleL19sale.commercial — a change where a product is transferred to a customer and payment is madepriceL8price.economic — the piece of a thing that be given in an interactioninteractionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.differenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.

Used by (7)

buyL9discountL9sellerL9valueL9cheapL10moneyL16saleL19

Relations

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Provenance

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