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a boundary that has drifted far from the ground where events happen, so the model inside no longer touches the actual

Ivory tower (noun) means: a boundary that has drifted far from the ground where events happen, so the model inside no longer touches the actual. It emerges from boundary, drift, model, ground: none. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ivory-tower.detachment · forms: ivory tower

ordinarily means: a place where people are isolated from everyday realities

Examples

Emergence

from: boundary drift model ground real
through: none

Chain to foundations

windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.goodL6 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpcontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placeuseL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlpriceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inwallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarygroundL11 ground.level: a parameter whose window is narrower than the windows of other parameters it sets, and whose value determines the walls for those otherspersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theresetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.smallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.actL3 act.deed: do somethingivory towerL12 ivory-tower.detachment: a boundary that has drifted far from the ground where events happen, so the model inside no longer touches the actualnothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thinghelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryrealL2 real.actual: a thing that is in space and persists through timedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.valueL9 value.worth: how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricenoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getmodelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbermarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.likeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.politeL3 polite.social: state that respect othersmessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entityothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingstimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placecontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctarrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built fromivory towerL12ivory-tower.detachment — a boundary that has drifted far from the ground where events happen, so the model inside no longer touches the actualboundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.groundL11ground.level — a parameter whose window is narrower than the windows of other parameters it sets, and whose value determines the walls realL2real.actual — a thing that is in space and persists through time

Provenance

author: phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — levels and abstraction