{
  "id": "faction.inner",
  "term": "faction",
  "sense": "inner",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 14,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A group inside a group, whose members set walls against the other members.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "groups.collection",
      "inside.spatial",
      "member.social",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "against.opposition"
    ],
    "interaction": "A collective self can hold a second, smaller boundary inside the first; members of the inner one keep the outer group's walls only where they do not cross its own.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a boundary inside a boundary",
      "loyalty split between two levels"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "political-party.power",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a party is a whole group bidding for power; a faction divides a group"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "faction",
    "factional",
    "factions"
  ],
  "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-faction.inner"
}