Kastalia Knowledge Management System · Glasperlenspiel template · knot 2669
What Is a Machine?
Before machines became motors, engines and computers, the word already meant something broader:
an ingenious means by which something becomes possible.
Ancestors (1 superordinated path)
Descendants (at least 4 branches originate here)
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What Is a Machine?
Before machines became motors, engines and computers, the word already meant something broader:an ingenious means by which something becomes possible.
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is_parent μηχανή → machina → machine ·
Greek μηχανή — mēkhanē: instrument, device, contrivance, means.Latin machina: machine, engine, apparatus, contrivance.Middle French machine → English machine.Th -
is_parent Deus ex Machina ·
In Greek theatre, a mēkhanē could be the stage apparatus that lifted a god into view.Hence: deus ex machina — the god from the machine.human construction → supe -
is_parent Technē ·
The machine begins not only with matter, but with know-how.Greek technē means skilled, rule-governed making.thought → technē → artifactBefore artificial agency
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