Compare concepts
Authority and Agency
Compared from declared Lexicon data only. Shared relationships are not a claim the concepts agree.
How they relate
- Authority distinct-from Agency
- Agency distinct-from Authority
| Authority | Agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Permission for a particular effect. Reasoning alone never confers it. | A Thing's capacity to choose and act, represented through its intentions, decisions and commitments. Granted and widened only by recorded act; never a property a system develops. |
| Adoption | adopted | adopted |
| Change rule | ordinary | entrenched |
| Decision | thecy-ascode docs-ascode/decisions/PILLAR-OWNERSHIP-2026-10-13.json | thecy-ascode docs-ascode/decisions/PILLAR-OWNERSHIP-2026-10-13.json |
| belief What does it hold to be true? | Not captured. | Not captured. |
| purpose Why does it exist? | Not captured. | Not captured. |
| intention What does it set out to do? | Not captured. | Not captured. |
| agency Who chooses and acts? | Not captured. | Not captured. |
| capability What can it actually do? | Not captured. | Not captured. |
| consequence What follows from it? | Not captured. | Not captured. |
| responsibility Who answers for it? | Not captured. | Not captured. |
| wisdom What does it learn and keep? | Not captured. | Not captured. |
| unity How does it fit with others? | Not captured. | Not captured. |