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a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinct

Quality (noun) means: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinct. It emerges from state, distinct: the state and the distinct together are a thing more distinct or less distinct. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

quality.value · forms: qualities, quality

Examples

Emergence

from: state distinct
through: the state and the distinct together are a thing more distinct or less distinct

Chain to foundations

persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
full chain as text (16 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromnonL9non.negation — not a thing that has a certain quality or conditionvalueL9value.worth — how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricecheapL10cheap.economic — lower in price than what is typically considered its worthtoughL17tough.resilient — a parameter whose window is wide but has poor performance across most of its range, where persistence is maintained throqualityL4quality.value — a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctstateL2state.condition — a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedistinctL3distinct.attribute — a thing is not the same as another thing

Used by (4)

nonL9valueL9cheapL10toughL17

Relations

is-aspecial.qualityis-a

Provenance

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