A FRAME is a human-made cognitive structure that selects which features of a situation are made salient and how they are organized for interpretation. Parameters: (1) it provides a bounded schema — a set of slots, roles, and expected relations — that maps onto experience; (2) it is normative in that it prescribes what counts as relevant, coherent, or deviant within its domain; (3) it is transmissible across minds through language, teaching, and cultural reproduction. Persistence mechanism: language and pedagogy — frames are sustained by their repeated deployment in discourse, institutionalized in curricula and professional training, and reinforced through ritualized expressions (idioms, stock phrases, genre conventions). A frame persists as long as communities continue to use it as a shared interpretive lens. [formal: frame | substrate: mind | horizon: generations | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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frame
A FRAME is a human-made cognitive structure that selects which features of a situation are made salient and how they are organized for interpretation. Parameters: (1) it provides a bounded schema — a set of slots, roles, and expected relat…
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Why it is in scope
The human-made practice of structuring perception and interpretation by selecting and making salient certain aspects of reality while rendering others invisible. It persists through language, media, rhetoric, institutional design, and cultural teaching — the shared practice of framing how things are understood.
Names and aliases
- frameen · CANONICAL
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Frame analysis requires language to operate — the cognitive structuring of situations depends on linguistic categories and the vocabulary to name them. Remove language, and framing ceases to function.
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A frame is a specific kind of cognitive structure — it is a category of concept that organizes interpretation. The direction runs from specific (frame) to general (concept).
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A frame-of-reference is a specific kind of frame: a structured coordinate system or set of assumptions for interpreting phenomena. Per Law 9: frame-of-reference is 'a frame.' Direction: specific→general.
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Hop-size is the step size between consecutive analysis frames in windowed-overlap-add processing. It is only meaningful within a framed/windowed structure: remove frames and hop-size ceases to have any operation or meaning. DEPENDS_ON direction correct — hop-size operates by specifying spacing between frames.
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phase-vocoder processes finite signal frames extracted from the continuous signal. Remove the frame concept and the phase-vocoder's fundamental unit of operation disappears. Removal test passes.
- overlap-add-method← DEPENDS_ON
Overlap-add reconstructs a continuous signal from overlapped frame segments. Remove the concept of frame and overlap-add has no operational structure — it stops working. Direction tested: frame → overlap-add (frame is needed for overlap-add to function).
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