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Keeping one's own walls where a group one belongs to sets them, when setting them in another place would make its own reach wider.

Loyalty (noun) means: Keeping one's own walls where a group one belongs to sets them, when setting them in another place would make its own reach wider. It emerges from belonging, keep, set, wall: Belonging makes a group's walls read as one's own; loyalty is that reading holding when it costs something, when the member could reach further by setting its walls where the group does not. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

loyalty.kept · forms: disloyal, disloyalty, loyal, loyalties, loyalty

Emergence

from: belonging keep set wall groups wide reach make space
through: Belonging makes a group's walls read as one's own; loyalty is that reading holding when it costs something, when the member could reach further by setting its walls where the group does not.

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 shownpolitical partyL18political-party.power — A group organized to win power in a government, whose members set their own walls where it sets them.loyaltyL17loyalty.kept — Keeping one's own walls where a group one belongs to sets them, when setting them in another place would make its own rebelongingL16belonging.member — Being read by a collective self as one of its members, so that the walls it sets read as one's own.keepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or statesetL9set.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.groupsL5groups.collection — a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternwideL4wide.spatial — has more space extent than usualreachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.makeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.

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political partyL18

Relations

contrasts-withbelonging.memberbelonging is being inside; loyalty is staying inside when leaving would pay
contrasts-withyes-men.filteredyes-men keep the power's model unchanged; loyalty keeps the walls, not necessarily the model

Provenance

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