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A group organized to win power in a government, whose members set their own walls where it sets them.

Political party (noun) means: A group organized to win power in a government, whose members set their own walls where it sets them. It emerges from groups, organized, power, government: A party turns many members' reach into one bid for power by asking each to set its own walls where the party sets them; the discipline that makes it strong is the same that makes a member's own reading costly to act on. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

political-party.power · forms: political parties, political party

Emergence

from: groups organized power government member set wall loyalty win
through: A party turns many members' reach into one bid for power by asking each to set its own walls where the party sets them; the discipline that makes it strong is the same that makes a member's own reading costly to act on.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

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

built 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.groupsL5groups.collection — a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternorganizedL3organized.structure — a state where parts are in a regular pattern that persists through timepowerL14power.over — The reach of one thing over the walls of another thing's window.governmentL17government.administrative — a group that makes rules for people in a placememberL7member.social — a person that is a part of a groupsetL9set.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.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 re

Relations

contrasts-withfaction.innera faction is a group inside a group; a party competes for a government
contrasts-withparty.socialthe political sense, not a celebration or a participant

Provenance

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