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The theory that "ordinariness" exists on a spectrum, not as a binary category. What counts as ordinary varies across contexts, cultures, and individuals—an event ordinary in one setting may be extraordinary in another; a phenomenon ordinary in one era may be impossible in another. The Ordinary Spectrum recognizes that ordinariness is not a property of things themselves but of their relationship to expectations, frequencies, and contexts. A rainy day is ordinary in Seattle, extraordinary in the desert. A phone call is ordinary now, extraordinary in 1900. The theory calls for mapping where phenomena fall on the spectrum of ordinariness, acknowledging that the boundary between ordinary and extraordinary is fuzzy and mobile.
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