{
  "id": "out-group.outside",
  "term": "out-group",
  "sense": "outside",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Those a collective self reads as outside its boundary, whose walls it does not keep.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "read.information",
      "outside.spatial",
      "boundary.limit",
      "wall.range-end",
      "keep.maintenance"
    ],
    "interaction": "Once a collective self draws its boundary, it keeps up the walls of those inside and stops keeping those outside; the out-group is defined by that withdrawn maintenance as much as by any trait.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "exclusion as withdrawn maintenance",
      "a boundary that sets two groups at once"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "in-group.inside",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the other side of the same line"
    },
    {
      "id": "neglect.omission",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "neglect lets maintenance lapse; an out-group is never owed it"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bharat-vs-india.names",
    "deep-state.hidden",
    "elite.few",
    "establishment.settled",
    "fifth-column.inside",
    "foreign-interference.outside",
    "heartland.core",
    "law-abiding-citizens.deserving",
    "north-south-divide.regional",
    "not-one-of-us.unlike",
    "one-percent.few",
    "ordinary-people.core",
    "our-way-of-life.pattern",
    "outsiders-coming-in.crossing",
    "real-people.narrowed",
    "second-class-citizens.lesser",
    "self-sufficient.autarkic",
    "silent-majority.unheard",
    "take-back-our-country.regain",
    "us-versus-them.split"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "out group",
    "out groups",
    "outgroup",
    "outgroups"
  ],
  "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-out-group.outside"
}