Materials

Roles: substance, hardness, grain, texture, composition, temper, brittleness, malleability, alloy, refinement

The domain of material substances and their intrinsic properties: hardness, grain, texture, composition, temper, brittleness, malleability. Distinct from manufacturing (which concerns production processes) and physical-objects (which concerns discrete things). Materials logic foregrounds what something is made of and how that composition determines behavior under stress — whether it bends or breaks, holds an edge or dulls, resists corrosion or decays. Source domain for metaphors about character, personality, and moral constitution.

As Source Frame (7)

• Attachment as Bond → mental-experience, social-dynamics
• Patina → aesthetics, software-engineering
• Personality Is Material → mental-experience
• Psychological Flexibility → psychotherapy
• Red Tape → governance
• Salary → economics
• Stock → economics

Applied To This Frame (1)

• carpentry → Read the Grain