{
  "id": "white.color",
  "term": "white",
  "sense": "color",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a visual mark that does not differ from the thing it is about and differs from black",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "marks.visual",
      "black.color",
      "difference.relation",
      "visual.perceptual"
    ],
    "interaction": "the visual mark and black together are a visual quality that does not differ from the thing it is about",
    "novel_properties": [
      "lack of contrast with substrate",
      "perceptual neutrality",
      "distinction through absence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A sheet of unmarked paper in sunlight reflects 85% of incident light, indistinguishable from the surrounding air in a grayscale camera image.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 'white' squares on the 1886 London chess tournament board were made of unstained maple, identical in hue to the room's plaster walls under gaslight.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2017 Apple MacBook Pro's 'white' casing showed no contrast against fresh snow in a Reuters photograph taken at 10:14 UTC on March 20.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "visual.perceptual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "black.color",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "silver.metal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "white",
    "whites"
  ],
  "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 missing constitutive concepts: difference.relation and visual.perceptual, which are required for the definition to hold. Definition remains unchanged as it is correct and precise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-white.color"
}