# open secret (silence)

*Ordinarily means:* something many people know but is officially not acknowledged

a fact that remains inside the real window but stays outside the wall of the group's self-model

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: group

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [fact](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fact.truth), [real](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real.actual), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [collective](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective.group), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [persist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue), [outside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outside.spatial)

**Through:** the group's self-model sets a wall that excludes the fact from its statements

**Novel properties:**
- known but unspoken fact

## Used by
- [social capital](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-social-capital.resource) (L20)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-open-secret.silence*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-open-secret.silence.json*  
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