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Re:50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021 by dredmorbius on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:51PM (#29420627)
Gah! I've reached the age when writing is easier than reading .... Sorry!

"Textile" (a woven fabric) is another great one, yes, thanks.

Diving into other etymologies and origins of other words based around information (literally, to form an impression), truth and trust, etc., is interesting. Many of the words for the most ephemeral concepts are deeply ... rooted ... in the profoundly physical, tactile, and material.

Re:50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021 by mdp2021 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:33PM (#29421267)
> interesting

To my "school", a necessary duty :)

> in the profoundly physical, tactile, and material

That depends. Some scholars identify a number of key concepts as construction blocks of their many derived terms. Not all of them are concrete - some are extremely subtle (also to be productive of so many different, yet related concepts).

For example, you write 'physical': some identify the root of that term in an immaterial concept of a dynamic principle, as if expressed by the explosive phoneme, that pertains immediately to "physical", "future", "foliage" in this construction assumed to express a "spawning". Similarly to 'material' ("measure", "mathematics"...), that some see as coming from the key root concept of limited extensions.

In the development of the terms and idea, concretion and abstraction may follow each other ("measure", "moon", "month"...).