reading between the lines · subtext
Ask Prometheusa self-model whose true parameter has drifted past the wall of its communication window, while the statement stays within the window, leaving a space between the walls.
Reading between the lines (adjective) means: a self-model whose true parameter has drifted past the wall of its communication window, while the statement stays within the window, leaving a space between the walls. It emerges from self-model, parameter, wall, window: the parameter drifts past the wall while the statement remains inside the window, creating a space between the walls that listeners can read. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: to infer the hidden meaning that isn't being said
Examples
- When a reference letter praises only a former employee's punctuality, readers infer that the writer had little good to say about the actual work. everyday
Emergence
- unsaid content beyond expressive range
- inferable space between walls
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (238 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.