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Letting another set one's walls while stopping it is within one's own reach.

Consent (noun) means: Letting another set one's walls while stopping it is within one's own reach. It emerges from let, set, wall, stop: The same walls can be set with or without consent; the difference is that the bounded thing could have stopped the setting and did not, so the walls are both another's and its own. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

consent.given · forms: consent, consented, consenting, consents

Emergence

from: let set wall stop reach time
through: The same walls can be set with or without consent; the difference is that the bounded thing could have stopped the setting and did not, so the walls are both another's and its own.

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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt frommandateL18mandate.granted — Consent that a power reads as letting it set the walls it named before it was chosen.consentL17consent.given — Letting another set one's walls while stopping it is within one's own reach.letL16let.permission — to give control to anothersetL9set.fix — To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.wallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.stopL15stop.action — to be a change that motion interacts with limit and endsreachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

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Relations

contrasts-withlegitimacy.endorsedconsent is an act; legitimacy is the standing reading
contrasts-withhobsons-choice.one-optionconsent needs a real alternative; Hobson's choice offers only nothing

Provenance

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