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To persist against a change that is caused by another thing.

Resist (verb) means: To persist against a change that is caused by another thing. It emerges from persist, interaction, change: When persistence acts within an interaction that brings change, resisting occurs. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

resist.oppose · forms: resist, resisted, resisting, resists

Emergence

from: persist interaction change
through: When persistence acts within an interaction that brings change, resisting occurs.

Chain to foundations

energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.resistL20 resist.oppose: To persist against a change that is caused by another thing.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromresistL20resist.oppose — To persist against a change that is caused by another thing.persistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.interactionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.

Relations

abstractsinertia.resistanceresist is more general; inertia is physical resistance
contrasts-withpersist.continueresist implies active opposition; persist may be passive

Provenance

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