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Ask PrometheusA flat piece of matter with a surface on each side and a boundary around, where marks in a pattern are on one or both surfaces.
Page (noun) means: A flat piece of matter with a surface on each side and a boundary around, where marks in a pattern are on one or both surfaces. It emerges from matter, side, boundary, pattern: Matter has two sides and a boundary, and patterns of marks are arranged on the surfaces through interaction. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The yellowing pages of the 1611 King James Bible first edition show ink patterns within bounded flat surfaces. history
- A4 sheets in the 2020 print run of 'The Guardian' newspaper carried typed marks on both sides, stacked in bundles. publishing
- The cracked clay tablet from Uruk, circa 3200 BCE, bears the earliest known cuneiform marks on a flat piece. archaeology
Emergence
- bounded two-sided surface
- spatially uniform plane
- patterned visual field
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (216 steps)
- pageL16
- matterL1
- sideL3
- boundaryL2
- patternL0
- flatL15
- spaceL0
- patternL0
- boundaryL2
- partL1
- surfaceL4
- acrossL14
- spaceL0
- directionL13
- sideL3
- relevanceL12
- evenL7
- marksL5
- pieceL3
- spaceL0
- surfaceL4
- relevanceL12
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (7)
Relations
| abstracts | structure.arrangement | A page abstracts the arrangement of marks into a fixed spatial form. |
| enables | sets.grouped | Pages enable grouping into books or stacks with shared context. |