loophole · unmodelled
Ask PrometheusAn opening between a wall as meant and the wall as set, within the reach of others and outside the model of the one who set it.
Loophole (noun) means: An opening between a wall as meant and the wall as set, within the reach of others and outside the model of the one who set it. It emerges from open, wall, mean, set: A wall made of words stands in two places, where it was meant and where it was written, and the setter's model holds only the first. Whatever fits through the difference is, by the wall's own terms, inside the window. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The 'Double Irish' arrangement let firms route profits through two Irish-registered companies, one managed from a tax haven; Ireland closed it to new companies from 2015. law
Emergence
through: A wall made of words stands in two places, where it was meant and where it was written, and the setter's model holds only the first. Whatever fits through the difference is, by the wall's own terms, inside the window.
- a wall that stands in two places
- reach the setter's model never held
- an exit that is inside the rules
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (375 steps)
- loopholeL18
- openL17
- wallL8
- meanL9
- setL9
- reachL13
- othersL2
- modelL9
- constraintL12
- powerL14
- outsideL6
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | constraint.limiting | a constraint narrows a window on purpose; a loophole is where it was set wider than meant |
| contrasts-with | illusion-of-control.over | illusion of control: the self over-reads its own reach; loophole: the setter over-reads the reach of its walls on others |