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When things happen without a regular pattern over time or space.

Randomness (noun) means: When things happen without a regular pattern over time or space. It emerges from pattern, time, space: Events occur in space and time without following a regular pattern. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

randomness.unpredictable · forms: randomness

Emergence

from: pattern time space
through: Events occur in space and time without following a regular pattern.

Chain to foundations

timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.randomnessL3 randomness.unpredictable: When things happen without a regular pattern over time or space.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromuncertaintyL8uncertainty.epistemic — When a thing may be in one place or another, or may happen at one time or another, and the pattern is not known.randomnessL3randomness.unpredictable — When things happen without a regular pattern over time or space.patternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.

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Relations

contrasts-witherror.mistakerandomness lacks pattern, while mistake is an irregular difference
abstractschance.randomchance is a surface form of randomness

Provenance

author: openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6