The Emergence Machine

Pants

physical · material-culture · Level 8 · E9

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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

Garment covering the legs from waist to ankle, emerging from the organized arrangement of cloth and leg, combining with substance to form a specific physical form, and exhibiting patterns that govern its transformations and binding.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “pants” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0PantsClothingLegPersonBodyAnimalCloth… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureSubstanceChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesShortsL9PantsL8ClothL5ClothingL7LegL7PersonL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Cloth L5 (requires)
    Garment covering the legs from waist to ankle -- prerequisite: cloth
  • Clothing L7 (requires)
    Clothing item prerequisite
  • Leg L7 (requires)
    Garment covering the legs from waist to ankle -- prerequisite: leg
  • Person L7 (requires)
    Clothing item prerequisite requires prior knowledge of person to emerge.

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