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the ability to cause action

agency.capacity · forms: agencies, agency

Examples

The Mars rover Perseverance drilled into Jezero Crater's bedrock on August 6, 2021, capturing a sample for future return to Earth. engineering
In 2008, the Federal Reserve invoked emergency powers to lend $85 billion to AIG, altering financial market trajectories. economics
CRISPR-Cas9 edited the HBB gene in hematopoietic stem cells to cure sickle cell disease in a 2023 clinical trial. biology

Emergence

from: ability action cause

through: the ability and the action together, when linked by a cause, produce change through intentional direction

intentional change
directed causation
initiated effect

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

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

Relations

is-a	ability.capacity	is-a
abstracts	action.deed	abstracts

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6