{
  "id": "enemy.against",
  "term": "enemy",
  "sense": "against",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A thing whose reach a self model reads as set against its own walls.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "reach.action",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "read.information",
      "set.fix",
      "against.opposition",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "Reading another's reach as aimed at one's own walls turns every move of the other into a possible wall moving; the reading, once held, is hard to update because the other's calm reads as waiting.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "another's reach read as aimed at oneself",
      "a reading that absorbs contrary evidence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "ally.aligned",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "an ally's reach is read as working with one's own"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "fifth-column.inside",
    "us-versus-them.split"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "enemies",
    "enemy"
  ],
  "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-enemy.against"
}