**Links to**: [[Thought]], [[Chunk]], [[Parse]], [[Continuity]], [[Line]], [[Linearity]], [[04 Concepts as pre-dictions]], [[Semantic attractor]], [[Pattern]], [[Reference]], [[Intuition]], [[Cognition]], [[Logic]], [[Invention]], [[Meditation]], etc.   _This entry is both an entry and a performance (see pdf below)._   Given this project’s interest in **chunking** and **parsing**, we consider the notion of _lapse_, below. As attention-consideration, escape, interruption, placeholder, slippage, etc. First, let us consider the etymology of the term:   >**lapse** (noun): From mid-15c., “elapsing of time, expiration;” (also: “temporary forfeiture of a legal right”). From the Latin *lapsus*: “slipping and falling, a landslide; flight (of time); falling into error,” from _labi_: “to glide, slip, slide, sink, fall; decline, go to ruin,” which is of unknown etymology. See also: [[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]]. As: *moral transgression* or *sin* (from ca. 1500); or as _slip of the memory_ (1520s); or as a falling away from one’s faith (1650s).   >**lapse** (verb): From early 15c., time going by, passing, from _lapse_ (noun, from Latin _lapsare_: to lose one’s footing, slip, or slide. To “fail” in duty or faith meaning is from 1630s. To “become void, revert due to some failure or non-action by the holder” meaning is from 1726. Of _lapsed_ persons, who have “fallen away from the faith,” is from 1630s. “Originally especially to those who denied Christianity during prosecution.”^[All etymological information is from etymonline.com.] More about publication TBA soon. The pdf below has been distributed at various locations and events, as a single double-sided page which is protected by plastic tape. Some people love it and some people hate it, as always. ![[lapse.pdf]] ### Footnotes