# agreement (social)

when two or more parties like a just condition

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social  ·  Arena: agreement

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [party](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-party.social), [like](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-like.similarity), [just](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-just.exact), [condition](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-condition.state)

**Through:** The parties each like a just condition, creating a state.

**Novel properties:**
- mutual consent
- shared expectation

## Examples
- The 1995 Oslo Accords temporarily aligned Israeli and Palestinian positions on mutual recognition and territorial control. *(institutions)*
- Two neighbors fix a shared fence after measuring exact property lines with surveyors. *(everyday life)*
- TCP handshake completes when client and server exchange sequence numbers and agree on connection parameters. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [contract](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-contract.legal) (L14)
- [loan](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loan.financial) (L17)
- [wed](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wed.social) (L9)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-agreement.social.json*  
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