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A self model's reading that another set its walls nearer than a rule allowed, kept as something that other must repair.

Grievance (noun) means: A self model's reading that another set its walls nearer than a rule allowed, kept as something that other must repair. It emerges from self-model, read, set, wall: The reading is not only that the walls are near but that another put them there against a rule; it is kept rather than dropped, so it becomes a standing claim that shapes the self model's reading of that other. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

grievance.held · forms: aggrieved, grievance, grievances

Emergence

from: self-model read set wall near rules allow keep repair
through: The reading is not only that the walls are near but that another put them there against a rule; it is kept rather than dropped, so it becomes a standing claim that shapes the self model's reading of that other.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt from — 1 more not shownoutrage of the weekL19outrage-of-the-week.serial — A grievance a collective self keeps only until the next grievance comes, so none is kept for the time its repair would tsense of grievanceL19sense-of-grievance.collective — Grievance kept across the members of a collective self and in its narrative, so members read walls another set on membertake back our countryL19take-back-our-country.regain — A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group, and holds setting them again from within as its purwinter of discontentL19winter-of-discontent.strikes — A period in which many members of a collective self act together on grievance against the walls those who govern set, kegrievanceL18grievance.held — A self model's reading that another set its walls nearer than a rule allowed, kept as something that other must repair.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.readL7read.information — when entities sees and makes informationsetL9set.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.nearL2near.spatial — when the space between two things is lessrulesL16rules.social — regular patterns that control how things are orderedallowL17allow.permission — let thing to enable itkeepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or state

Used by (4)

outrage of the weekL19sense of grievanceL19take back our countryL19winter of discontentL19

Relations

contrasts-withenemy.againstan enemy is read as aiming at one's walls now; a grievance is about walls already set

Provenance

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