The Emergence Machine

Short Story

abstract · Literature · Level 13 · E9

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Emergence definition

A concise narrative that focuses on a single event, character, or theme, told in a compressed form, drawing upon the structured account of events and imaginative stories of fiction.

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Wiktionary senses

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Source: Wiktionary — “short story”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
short story
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL13L12L11L10L2L1L0Short StoryFictionCharacterPersonality… intermediate l…FormInformationLifeStructureActionChangeCollectionExistenceEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Fiction L12 (requires)
    The short story is a concise fictional form sharing genre conventions with longer narrative fiction.

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