{
  "handle": "Formelt",
  "gloss": "A structure loses its organising boundaries while its components remain",
  "mechanism": "Divisions, roles or relationships that gave components a stable arrangement become less definite or less effective while the components persist, so the prior form loosens, which can lead to dissolution, confusion or a new arrangement. The loosening is in an organising relation or boundary, not only in the components; a direct change from one well-defined arrangement to another need not include it.",
  "invariants": [
    "The components of a structure persist.",
    "The boundaries or relations that organised them become less definite or less effective."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Loosening read as destruction: loss of the previous form is equated with loss of all capacity.",
    "Change read as decay: every rearrangement is called a decline.",
    "Old form preferred: the previous boundaries are treated as better by default."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Infrastructure",
      "Dynamics"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "Linkfade",
      "Topology"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T22:27:58+00:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Formelt#mh:SHA-256:0e39879fc8580476a1a9969909333c6021061f8f5e5a317efb1256141cc0425c",
  "sema_ref": "Formelt#0e39",
  "sema_stub": "0e39",
  "sema_layer": "Infrastructure",
  "sema_category": "Dynamics",
  "used_by": {}
}