paper · material
Ask Prometheusa flat piece of material to make text or print
Paper (noun) means: a flat piece of material to make text or print. It emerges from matter, structure, flat, make: substance and arrangement interact through make.verb to form a persistent flat piece of material. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455 on linen paper, survives in 49 copies from the first major book printed with movable metal type. history
- A single sheet of standard A4 paper, 0.1 mm thick, supports text from an inkjet printer in office environments. everydaylife
- The Library of Congress preserves the 1501 Aldine edition of Aristotle on handmade rag paper, fragile after 500 years. institutions
Emergence
through: substance and arrangement interact through make.verb to form a persistent flat piece of material
- flatness with persistence
- capacity for marked information
- tactile surface uniformity
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (368 steps)
- paperL20
- matterL1
- structureL2
- flatL19
- spaceL0
- patternL0
- boundaryL2
- partL1
- surfaceL4
- acrossL18
- spaceL0
- directionL17
- sideL3
- relevanceL15
- 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
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (4)
Relations
| is-a | material.physical | paper is a kind of physical material |