{
  "id": "open-secret.silence",
  "term": "open secret",
  "sense": "silence",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "group",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "a fact that remains inside the real window but stays outside the wall of the group's self-model",
  "folk_gloss": "something many people know but is officially not acknowledged",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "fact.truth",
      "real.actual",
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "collective.group",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "persist.continue",
      "outside.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "the group's self-model sets a wall that excludes the fact from its statements",
    "novel_properties": [
      "known but unspoken fact"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "social-capital.resource"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "open secret"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — what the group will not say"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-open-secret.silence"
}