{
  "id": "consent.given",
  "term": "consent",
  "sense": "given",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 17,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Letting another set one's walls while stopping it is within one's own reach.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "let.permission",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "stop.action",
      "reach.action",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "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.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a wall set by another yet chosen by the bounded",
      "meaningful only where refusal was possible"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "legitimacy.endorsed",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "consent is an act; legitimacy is the standing reading"
    },
    {
      "id": "hobsons-choice.one-option",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "consent needs a real alternative; Hobson's choice offers only nothing"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "mandate.granted"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "consent",
    "consented",
    "consenting",
    "consents"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-consent.given"
}