new · recent
Ask PrometheusA thing that comes into a setting and has not been there before, or does not persist from before.
New (adjective) means: A thing that comes into a setting and has not been there before, or does not persist from before. It emerges from happen, persist, come, setting: An event occurs in a setting where a thing arrives and is present but did not persist from before, making its presence recent. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The first operational version of the Internet, ARPANET, connected four university nodes in 1969. computing
- In 2011, the Arab Spring uprisings began in Tunisia and spread across several countries. institutions
- The Higgs boson was observed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012 after decades of search. physics
Emergence
through: An event occurs in a setting where a thing arrives and is present but did not persist from before, making its presence recent.
- recent presence
- non-persistence from prior state
- entry into context
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (25 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (12)
createL5developmentL5latestL5updatedL6youngL6newsL7thinkL8transferredL8the compression claimL12transformationL14no free openingsL18ripeningL18
Relations
| medium-for | happen.event-occurrence | newness requires an event of arrival or emergence |
| contrasts-with | persist.continue | new things do not persist from before |