Instrument No. 08-B

Abstraction Seismograph

Estimates the layers between lived experience and the sentence currently describing it.

CALIBRATION: STABLE
REF: WITTGENSTEIN / MUNARI
OPERATING AT 60HZ
INPUT_STREAM
Specimens:
ABSTRACTION STRATA (N=5) · LIVE
05
Conceptual Category
Names an abstract construct rather than a perceptible thing.
+1.40 DIST
04
Metaphor
Maps one domain onto another (1 marker).
+1.00 DIST
03
Universal Scope
Collapses many particulars into a single sweeping claim.
+0.80 DIST
02
Utterance
The final spoken or written form of the thought.
+0.50 DIST
01
Lived Experience
The raw, pre-linguistic event the sentence reaches for.
BASE_0