The Emergence Machine

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a thing that happened since a little time before now

Recent (adjective) means: a thing that happened since a little time before now. It emerges from happen, since, little, time: when an event occurs after a brief interval preceding now, we treat it as recent. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 5, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

recent.temporal · forms: recent

Examples

Emergence

from: happen since little time
through: when an event occurs after a brief interval preceding now, we treat it as recent

Chain to foundations

littleL4 little.size: has less space extent than most othershappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter haschangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.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.recentL5 recent.temporal: a thing that happened since a little time before nowtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.sinceL2 since.temporal: from a previous time until nowbigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.previousL1 previous.temporal: a thing that is before now in time
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromyoungL6young.age — being of little size and recent in timerecentL5recent.temporal — a thing that happened since a little time before nowhappenL2happen.event-occurrence — A change that is at some place during time.sinceL2since.temporal — from a previous time until nowlittleL4little.size — has less space extent than most otherstimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

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youngL6

Relations

is-anew.recentrecent is a kind of new
contrasts-withexample.temporalrecent vs old

Provenance

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