# taking off the training wheels (withdrawn-support)

*Ordinarily means:* removing the supports so someone does a thing on their own

Maintenance of another's walls stopped on purpose, because the one doing it models the other's own reach as now enough to hold them.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [hold](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hold.physical), [stop](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-stop.action), [purpose](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-purpose.goal), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [enough](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-enough.sufficient), [agency](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-agency.capacity), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [doing](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-doing.activity), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension)

**Through:** An enabling power had been holding another's window from outside; it is withdrawn on purpose when the holder's model reads the other's agency as able to take over. The walls stay; who holds them changes, and the other learns its reach by meeting them.

**Novel properties:**
- power used by being withdrawn
- a handover of walls, not their removal
- a bet made on a model of another's reach

## Examples
- A parent who removes the training wheels from a child's bicycle once the child can balance, and lets go of the seat, is the literal case the phrase names. *(everyday)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-taking-off-the-training-wheels.withdrawn-support.json*  
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