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a collective self-model that places a hidden wall on the parameter of permissible statements, preventing any statement beyond that wall from ever entering the group's speech window

Unspoken rule (noun) means: a collective self-model that places a hidden wall on the parameter of permissible statements, preventing any statement beyond that wall from ever entering the group's speech window. It emerges from collective, self-model, wall, parameter: the hidden wall keeps statements beyond it outside the group's speech window. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

unspoken-rule.silence · forms: unspoken rule

ordinarily means: a norm that is never spoken about

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self-model wall parameter window law
through: the hidden wall keeps statements beyond it outside the group's speech window

Chain to foundations

valueL7 value.magnitude: The number a parameter has at a time.subjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.modelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryself-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveunspoken ruleL16 unspoken-rule.silence: a collective self-model that places a hidden wall on the parameter of permissible statements, preventing any statement beyond that wall from ever entering the group's speech windowmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundarieslikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.actL3 act.deed: do somethingeventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timegetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitymakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.wallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeputL3 put.placement: to move something into a placekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placecollectiveL3 collective.group: A pattern of others that are together in a place and change each other over time.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinginsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.setsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.processL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.lawL3 law.rule: a regular pattern that is what will happen when a thing is with another thingtouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromunspoken ruleL16unspoken-rule.silence — a collective self-model that places a hidden wall on the parameter of permissible statements, preventing any statement bcollectiveL3collective.group — A pattern of others that are together in a place and change each other over time.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.wallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.lawL3law.rule — a regular pattern that is what will happen when a thing is with another thing

Provenance

author: phrases:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — what the group will not say