A stopped pattern has no pole

Where it appears

Treated in

• Part Three — The Loop TongueScale-TaggingMost arguments between people who agree are two descriptions of the same pattern at different scales. Name your zoom level before you speak.
• Part Five — The Standing ThirdsWhat a Third Is, and What It Isn'tA pattern that recurs reliably enough to be worth naming, with no will of its own. The four tests every figure has to pass, and why a tier measures what a Third is made of rather than its rank.

Shares pages with

• Three kinds of knowingon Scale-Tagging
• Naming and defusingon Scale-Tagging
• The Seven Iterationson Scale-Tagging
• Third Thingon What a Third Is, and What It Isn't
• Local Ruleon What a Third Is, and What It Isn't
• Global Formon What a Third Is, and What It Isn't
• Neston What a Third Is, and What It Isn't
• Fusion depthon What a Third Is, and What It Isn't