Contend

Contend names tending under strain, pressure, resistance, or competing claim.

Contending is not simply fighting. It is tending where care has to meet opposition without dropping the relation. A participant may contend with a limit, a pressure, an argument, a wound, a competing claim, or a condition that resists simple maintenance.

Places

Contend places tending under strain, pressure, resistance, or competing claim.

Holds

Contend is held by Tend, Strain, Pressure, Resistance, and Boundary. A relation must be tended, and that tending must meet pressure or opposition at a boundary, before contending can be named.

Pairs

Contend pairs with Tend. Tend names care applied through attended practice; Contend names the same care where resistance must be met without losing relation.

Traces

• Tend
• Strain
• Pressure
• Resistance
• Boundary

Nests

Contend nests within practice where care has to hold through opposition, pressure, or competing claim.

Reads

Contend becomes readable where tending cannot continue by simple maintenance, because pressure, resistance, or competing claim must be met and carried at a boundary.

Contend becomes unsafe where the relation is dropped and only force remains. It remains answerable where resistance is met in a way that preserves or clarifies the relation being tended.

Carries

Contend carries no further public branch at this scope.