{
  "id": "track-record-speaks-for-itself.past-as-proof",
  "term": "track record speaks for itself",
  "sense": "past-as-proof",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "Offering others a record of the past as the model they should use for its future, so that no further check is asked of it.",
  "folk_gloss": "past results are offered as enough proof of future reliability",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "offers.proposal",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "records.document",
      "past.temporal",
      "model.representation",
      "use.application",
      "future.temporal",
      "further.degree",
      "check.verification",
      "asks.social",
      "track-record.model-and",
      "trust.reliance",
      "reputation.social-model"
    ],
    "interaction": "A track record is a model; this move hands it to others as a replacement for checking, so their trust is asked to run on the past alone while the self's future acts stay unverified.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "the past offered in place of a check",
      "trust requested rather than earned anew",
      "a model of the self handed to others to hold"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "track-record.model-and",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a track record is the model; this is the move of offering it in place of verification"
    },
    {
      "id": "trust.reliance",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "the phrase asks others to rely on the record rather than verify"
    },
    {
      "id": "persona.outward",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a persona is any self made to be read; this offers the past as the whole case"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "a brand you can trust",
    "brand you can trust",
    "our track record speaks for itself",
    "the record speaks for itself",
    "track record speaks for itself"
  ],
  "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-track-record-speaks-for-itself.past-as-proof"
}