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a collection of goods that are put in a store and are available

Stock (noun) means: a collection of goods that are put in a store and are available. It emerges from collection, products, store: The collection of goods is put in a store so they are available. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

stock.inventory · forms: stock, stocked, stocking, stocks

Examples

Emergence

from: collection products store
through: The collection of goods is put in a store so they are available.

Chain to foundations

energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.productsL3 products.goods: thing that is after a change on matter and has a structureitemsL4 items.object: things that are part of a set and are distinct from each otherflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.setsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.storeL16 store.place: a place where items are kept in a bounded structure so they persist after usechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarycapacityL15 capacity.size: the maximum load that a thing can have while its parameter stays inside the windowstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarycontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.collectionL5 collection.group: a set of items that are together in a placestockL17 stock.inventory: a collection of goods that are put in a store and are availablecomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.wallL14 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeuseL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromstockL17stock.inventory — a collection of goods that are put in a store and are availablecollectionL5collection.group — a set of items that are together in a placeproductsL3products.goods — thing that is after a change on matter and has a structurestoreL16store.place — a place where items are kept in a bounded structure so they persist after use

Relations

is-acollection.groupis-a
medium-forstore.placemedium-for

Provenance

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