The Emergence Machine

Assessment

abstract · Education · Level 4 · E10

E10Institutions

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

The process of assigning value to performance or knowledge by comparing it to a standard, through the process of evaluating its characteristics and attributes in a spatial context, where value emerges from behavior and meaning, pattern.

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Wiktionary senses

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Historical origin

Origin word
assidere
Origin language
la

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL4L3L2L1L0AssessmentEvaluateProcessValueActionChangeQualityQuantityEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Value L2 (requires) polysemous
    Assessment assigns value to performance or knowledge
  • Evaluate L3 (requires)
    Assessment is the process of evaluating or judging something

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