The Emergence Machine

Sweater

physical · material-culture · Level 8 · 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

A knit garment pulled over the head, built on the structured material of cloth, which is woven or non-woven fibers, and the art of knitting, which creates a fabric through interlocking loops of yarn.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0SweaterClothingKnitBodyThreadAnimalCloth… intermediate l…ForceFormInformationLifeActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesPulloverL9SweaterL8ClothL5ClothingL7KnitL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Cloth L5 (requires)
    Knitted garment pulled over the head -- prerequisite: cloth
  • Clothing L7 (requires)
    Clothing item prerequisite
  • Knit L7 (requires)
    Knitted garment pulled over the head -- prerequisite: knit

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