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a condition that is a need

Required (adjective) means: a condition that is a need. It emerges from need, condition: when a need is attached to a condition, it creates a must. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 6, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

required.obligation · forms: require, required, requires, requiring

Examples

Emergence

from: need condition
through: when a need is attached to a condition, it creates a must

Chain to foundations

persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.requiredL6 required.obligation: a condition that is a needpartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.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.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeneedL5 need.psychological: a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.timeL0 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.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.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.patternL0 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 (46 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used by — 5 more not shownbuilt fromeasyL7easy.effort — a state that requires little workfineL7fine.quality — A state or condition that is both precisely what is required and commonly encountered.independentL7independent.attribute — a thing that is not a part of another thing and does not require another thingnecessaryL7necessary.obligation — required for a change to happenrequirementsL7requirements.obligation — a condition that is requireddueL9due.expected — something that is required to happen at a particular timecontradictionL11contradiction.logical — a claim that requires a parameter to be both inside and outside a single window at the same time.precariousL15precarious.unstable — A parameter whose window is narrower than the ordinary size of drift, requiring more maintenance to keep it within the wrequiredL6required.obligation — a condition that is a needneedL5need.psychological — a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectconditionL3condition.state — a state of a thing that persists through time in a place

Used by (13)

easyL7fineL7independentL7necessaryL7requirementsL7dueL9contradictionL11precariousL15tipping pointL15vergeL15paymentL17complexL18taxL18

Relations

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Provenance

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