The existing state of affairs with its known degrees of freedoms, and sanctions (i.e. affordances).1
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Footnotes
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The word, affordance, is a synonym of the word, sanction. Depending on the context, "sanction" can have either of the following meanings:
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"to give approbations and approvals for something, or to someone", or,
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"to give proscriptions and censures for something, or to someone."
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance#Mechanisms_and_conditions_framework_of_affordances ↩
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