# reading between the lines (subtext)

*Ordinarily means:* to infer the hidden meaning that isn't being said

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.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: what the group will not say

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless)

**Through:** the parameter drifts past the wall while the statement remains inside the window, creating a space between the walls that listeners can read

**Novel properties:**
- unsaid content beyond expressive range
- inferable space between walls

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reading-between-the-lines.subtext*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reading-between-the-lines.subtext.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*