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An instance of set status is the collective ascription of some relationship of belonging between some entity and a notional set by a community. The substance of the set status is the communal recognition of the ascribed belonging between the subject entity and the set in question.

Instances of set status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance and behaviour indicated as proper to this set-belonging relation, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act initiating this status.

Instances of set status may come to be through a formal process or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of membership status may end either though a formal process, or may simply fade out, be eliminated by fiat or for unknown reasons.  

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