{
  "id": "rules.social",
  "term": "rules",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "none",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "regular patterns that control how things are ordered",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "law.rule",
      "order.arrangement",
      "regular.frequency",
      "control.ability",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "The persistent, recurring pattern sets boundaries within a narrow parameter window, jointly producing a structured social constraint.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "structured constraint",
      "enforced regularity",
      "social coordination"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution requires a quorum of 51 senators to pass most legislation in the Senate.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "TCP/IP enforces packet sequencing rules so web browsers reliably load pages from servers.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Japan's railway operators run trains with median delays under 1 minute, governed by strict scheduling rules.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "contract.legal",
    "example.illustration",
    "government.administrative",
    "society.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "rule",
    "ruled",
    "rules",
    "ruling",
    "rulings"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'control.ability' and 'pattern.regularity' to components to align record with definition, which correctly describes social rules as controlling, recurring patterns in ordering. Definition remain"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rules.social"
}