sour grapes · want-edit
Ask PrometheusA self model that, finding a wanted thing out of reach, edits the want so the thing reads as never wanted.
Sour grapes (noun) means: A self model that, finding a wanted thing out of reach, edits the want so the thing reads as never wanted. It emerges from self-model, find, want, reach: The reach is read accurately as short of the goal; in place of carrying that as a loss, the self model changes the want so that want and reach agree again. The window never closed on anything wanted, so nothing is felt as lost. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: disparaging something only because one cannot have it
Examples
- In Aesop's fable a fox leaps again and again for grapes hanging too high, fails, and walks off saying they were sour anyway. literature
Emergence
- a want edited to fit the reach
- a loss that arrives as a thing never wanted
- reach read accurately, want read falsely
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (334 steps)
- sour grapesL15
- self-modelL14
- findL6
- wantL6
- reachL13
- editL7
- readL7
- seeL6
- informationL6
- entitiesL4
- neverL1
- modelL9
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | rationalization.backfill | rationalization makes a cause after an act so the act fits the self model; sour grapes edits the want itself so the reach needs no excuse |
| contrasts-with | hope.emotional | hope reads a closed window as reachable; sour grapes reads it as not wanted |
| contrasts-with | learned-helplessness.under | helplessness edits the reading of reach; sour grapes keeps reach read accurately and edits the want |