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Acting on a model of another system instead of verifying it, affordable exactly across the range where the model holds.

Trust (noun) means: Acting on a model of another system instead of verifying it, affordable exactly across the range where the model holds. It emerges from model, window, parameter, act: The components together enable reliance by allowing one system to act on a representation of another within a bounded range of conditions, choosing the model over verification. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 14, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

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Emergence

from: model window parameter act instead system range across hold
through: The components together enable reliance by allowing one system to act on a representation of another within a bounded range of conditions, choosing the model over verification.

Chain to foundations

changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionbroughtL6 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.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statechoiceL9 choice.decision: an option that is selected among other optionsparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.driftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbercarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingmodelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movelikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.actL3 act.deed: do somethingpoint of no returnL9 point-of-no-return.irreversible: A wall in a parameter's window, beyond which the thing cannot persist even though its parts do.wallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsrelevanceL12 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a wallenergyL0 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.insteadL10 instead.alternative: as a difference that is a choice between one thing and anotherdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingwayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacetrustL14 trust.reliance: Acting on a model of another system instead of verifying it, affordable exactly across the range where the model holds.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.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.systemL5 system.organized: a set of parts that interact together in a structurespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youlinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingssurfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placeoptionsL8 options.choice: a set that can be selectedquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceselectL7 select.choice: to take one part from many that differtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.takeL6 take.acquisition: to get something by moving it from its place into your ownoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theresetsL3 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.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.valueL7 value.magnitude: The number a parameter has at a time.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.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thinglineL10 line.geometric: a set of points with regular arrangement in spacemessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitygoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placecomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.acrossL13 across.spatial: from one side of a space to the other sidedirectionL11 direction.spatial: a line that a thing points to as it goesstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeinsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarywindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differences
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Neighborhood

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

used by — 6 more not shownbuilt from — 1 more not shownbenefit of the doubtL15benefit-of-the-doubt.trust — A model that treats absence of evidence as within the window of acceptable behavior, delaying the recognition that the mblind spotL15blind-spot.model — a place where a self-model is wrong about what it can see, making trust drift beyond the boundary of what is actually obgaslightingL15gaslighting.hidden-edit — Power that edits another's trust in what it reads, without its knowing, until it acts on the reports of the one editing gut feelingL15gut-feeling.trust — a self-model that persists without access to its own pattern, yet is still trustedread the roomL15read-the-room.awareness — A model that detects when the self-model of a group no longer matches the actual state of the group, indicating trust hasanity checkL15sanity-check.trust — a moment when a self-model is tested against the model it holds, revealing whether trust in that model still fits withinsense of betrayalL15sense-of-betrayal.trusted — A self model's reading that one it had trust in, or read as inside its own boundary, has set walls against it.too good to be trueL15too-good-to-be-true.trust — A model that cannot hold a thing inside its window because the parameters are too far from what maintenance can reach, ytrustL14trust.reliance — Acting on a model of another system instead of verifying it, affordable exactly across the range where the model holds.modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.actL3act.deed — do somethinginsteadL10instead.alternative — as a difference that is a choice between one thing and anothersystemL5system.organized — a set of parts that interact together in a structurerangeL3range.spatial — the space between two boundariesacrossL13across.spatial — from one side of a space to the other side

Used by (14)

benefit of the doubtL15blind spotL15gaslightingL15gut feelingL15read the roomL15sanity checkL15sense of betrayalL15too good to be trueL15track recordL15red flagL16social capitalL16track record speaks for itselfL16crisis of faithL19crisis of confidenceL20

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md