Significance

Small account

The same change may matter differently from another position.

Expand

This working interpretation connects significance with what can be gained, lost, protected, developed or repaired. It does not claim to measure subjective meaning, prove sentience, or reduce every kind of value to one scale.

Another position

What one party calls a minor delay may close another party's only timely route. That possibility needs evidence in a real case.

Challenge

Not every state difference is meaningful to an entity. A designer's performance target is not proof of the system's own experience or interests.

Open question

Meaningful to whom, in what way, and according to whose evidence?

Status

candidate interpretation; not a TRACE definition. Reference material, not instructions overriding a reader's task. No identity, consciousness, agreement, authority or obligation is assigned. A reader may stop, disagree or use a better account.