The Emergence Machine

Taxi

physical · Transportation · Level 15 · 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

Taxis emerge as a vehicle for hire that leverages the properties of transportation and money to facilitate the trade of transport, requiring a vehicle, money, and trade to operate.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “taxi”. 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.

thisfoundationsL15L14L13L12L2L1L0TaxiMoneyTradeExchange… intermediate l…TransportationVehicleFormLifeActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesCarL3TaxiL15TransportationL2VehicleL2MoneyL14E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Transportation L2 (requires)
    Vehicle for hire with a driver -- prerequisite: transportation
  • Vehicle L2 (requires)
    A taxi is a vehicle for hire
  • Money L14 (requires)
    Vehicle for hire with a driver -- prerequisite: money

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