letter · written
Ask Prometheusa piece of paper that has text on it
Letter (noun) means: a piece of paper that has text on it. It emerges from paper, text, piece: paper holds text together to form a written communication. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215, survives as a parchment document with handwritten Latin text. institutions
- Marie Curie's 1898 letter to the French Academy of Sciences described the discovery of polonium. science
- A printed letter from Nelson Mandela, dated February 1985, was smuggled out of Pollsmoor Prison. history
Emergence
through: paper holds text together to form a written communication
- physical carrier of written message
- bounded textual artifact
- structured surface with informational marks
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (371 steps)
- letterL17
- paperL16
- matterL1
- structureL2
- flatL15
- spaceL0
- patternL0
- boundaryL2
- partL1
- surfaceL4
- acrossL14
- spaceL0
- directionL13
- sideL3
- relevanceL12
- evenL7
- makeL4
- materialL5
- pieceL3
- printL13
- pieceL3
- materialL5
- patternL0
- pressL5
- forceL12
- matterL1
- interactionL2
- changeL1
- motionL2
- pressL5
- makeL4
- physicalL2
- portionL3
- regularityL10
- applicationL10
- useL6
- purposeL9
- goalL6
- stateL2
- differenceL1
- needL5
- stateL2
- differenceL1
- persistL1
- conditionL3
- objectL4
- workL3
- meaningL8
- informationL6
- differenceL1
- marksL5
- patternL0
- differenceL1
- stateL2
- knowledgeL7
- patternL0
- informationL6
- goalL6
- processL4
- specificL3
- justL2
- differenceL1
- othersL2
- applyingL8
- createL5
- repeatsL1
- textL7
- textL7
- pieceL3
- paperL16
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.