{
  "id": "text.written",
  "term": "text",
  "sense": "written",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a collection of marks with a regular arrangement that is about information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collection.group",
      "marks.visual",
      "regular.frequency",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "information.knowledge"
    ],
    "interaction": "when marks are together in a collection, arranged regularly in space, and convey a pattern of meaning, they function as written text",
    "novel_properties": [
      "structured visual pattern",
      "semantic content in spatial form",
      "persistent symbolic arrangement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Rosetta Stone bears parallel inscriptions in Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphs, enabling translation after centuries of lost meaning.",
      "domain": "archaeology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Library of Alexandria stored hundreds of thousands of papyrus scrolls, systematically organized for scholarly access.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Unicode Standard version 15.1 defines 149,813 characters across 168 modern and historic scripts.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "article.written",
    "author.person",
    "document.record",
    "edition.publication",
    "editor.role",
    "letter.written",
    "lyrics.musical",
    "notes.written",
    "paper.material",
    "quote.writing",
    "summary.text"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "text",
    "texted",
    "texting",
    "texts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added arrangement.spatial and information.knowledge to components, which are necessary for the concept of written text and correctly reflected in the original definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-text.written"
}