high horse · mounted

a self-model held at an elevation where others must look up to read it, and from which the dismount is demanded from below rather than chosen from the saddle.

High horse (noun) means: a self-model held at an elevation where others must look up to read it, and from which the dismount is demanded from below rather than chosen from the saddle. It emerges from self-model, above, high, others: The elevation is a placement, not an error: the model is held above the range others read from, which fixes the reading angle for everyone; and because the others hold the angle, they also hold the only demand that ends it. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ordinarily means: an attitude of superiority you have to be talked down from

Examples

• The reviewer's comments are all correct, and the team's request is not that they be wrong but that they be made from a desk. workplace
• The lecture ends when the teenager says come down, not when the parent finishes. family
• The sanctioning country discovers that lifting sanctions is negotiated with the sanctioned. diplomacy

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

Provenance