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This class comprises a defined set of persons who are able to act together as a single collective in intentional action and who are moreover gathered together physically to bring about this end. The substance of manifest groups is physical persons qua embodied actor.

Instances of manifest group come into existence when an intentional group maintains a continuous co-presence in spacetime. Instances of manifest group cease to exist when this co-presence ends.

Examples of manifest group include the players playing in a particular football match, the soldiers deployed in a battalion for a particular battle, a herd of sheep.

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