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A tradition a collective self reads as setting it apart from others, so a change to the pattern reads as the self made smaller.

Proud tradition (noun) means: A tradition a collective self reads as setting it apart from others, so a change to the pattern reads as the self made smaller. It emerges from tradition, collective self, pride, pattern: Tradition supplies a kept pattern; pride reads the pattern as setting the group apart from others. Joined, the pattern's value is read from what it says about the self, so a proposal to drop it is heard as a proposal to shrink the self. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

proud-tradition.standing · forms: a long and proud tradition, a proud tradition, long and proud tradition, proud tradition, proud traditions

ordinarily means: a long-standing practice that a group is proud of

Examples

Emergence

from: tradition collective self pride pattern read set others change make small self self-model
through: Tradition supplies a kept pattern; pride reads the pattern as setting the group apart from others. Joined, the pattern's value is read from what it says about the self, so a proposal to drop it is heard as a proposal to shrink the self.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (480 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built from — 4 more not shownproud traditionL20proud-tradition.standing — A tradition a collective self reads as setting it apart from others, so a change to the pattern reads as the self made straditionL19tradition.kept — A pattern of acting that a collective self keeps because it reads the pattern as part of what it has always been.collective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one prideL15pride.state — a self-model reporting that one's parameters are within a window where few others are, defined by a model of what is norpatternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.readL7read.information — when entities sees and makes informationsetL9set.fix — To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.othersL2others.distinct-entities — Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.

Relations

is-atradition.kepta tradition whose keeping is also a report of pride
contrasts-withthis-is-who-we-are.identity-claimthat names the self's kind; this names a practice that raises the self above others

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md