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what remains through the drift a window tolerates

Substance (noun) means: what remains through the drift a window tolerates. It emerges from window, drift, parameter, persist: A parameter's value may drift aimlessly within a range defined by a window; the thing persists as long as the parameter stays within that window, with the opening enabling boundary definition. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

substance.material · forms: substance, substances

Examples

Emergence

from: window drift parameter persist
through: A parameter's value may drift aimlessly within a range defined by a window; the thing persists as long as the parameter stays within that window, with the opening enabling boundary definition.

Chain to foundations

nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thinghappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placecomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.substanceL12 substance.material: what remains through the drift a window toleratesstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placequantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinginsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.driftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

used by — 7 more not shownbuilt fromdegreeL13degree.measurement — a measurement that indicates how much a substance differs from its originfluidL13fluid.liquid — a matter substance that flows together through spacegasL13gas.state — a substance that flows through space and remains movinghardL13hard.difficulty — a state of a substance that does not change when work is donemetalL13metal.element — a substance that stays in one shape and electricity flows through ittreatmentL13treatment.medical — a change process that uses a substance to change a conditionjewelryL14jewelry.accessory — a set of materials arranged in a specific structuretoysL14toys.play — An item made of physical material that can be used in a playful game.substanceL12substance.material — what remains through the drift a window tolerateswindowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.persistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.

Used by (15)

degreeL13fluidL13gasL13hardL13metalL13treatmentL13jewelryL14toysL14liquidL15logL15resourceL15rockL15drugL16oilL16goldL23

Relations

is-amatter.substanceis-a

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md