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sounds that are meaning

Words (noun) means: sounds that are meaning. It emerges from sound, meaning: Sounds together meaning are words. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 10, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

words.language · forms: word, words

Examples

Emergence

from: sound meaning
through: Sounds together meaning are words

Chain to foundations

partL1 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.meaningL8 meaning.significance: a pattern of knowledge that differs from a stateknowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.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.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingwordsL10 words.language: sounds that are meaningaudioL2 audio.auditory: a pattern of energy that repeats over time in a placerepeatsL1 repeats.action: to do a pattern again during timemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingssoundL3 sound.auditory: a pattern of energy that moves through mattergroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 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.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromconciseL11concise.linguistic — using few words to express meaning preciselysongL11song.musical — a piece of music with wordstermsL11terms.language — a word that has a specific meaning and is used to express a condition or informationthe compression claimL12the-compression-claim.assertion — A claim that the vocabulary of folk terms is a redundant encoding of a small set of situations, such that the range of pthe three tiersL19the-three-tiers.structure — Six terms, then a model, then a self-model, with boundaries at the coordination and reflexive transitions. Falsified if wordsL10words.language — sounds that are meaningsoundL3sound.auditory — a pattern of energy that moves through mattermeaningL8meaning.significance — a pattern of knowledge that differs from a state

Used by (5)

conciseL11songL11termsL11the compression claimL12the three tiersL19

Relations

is-alanguage.communication

Provenance

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