What is an enablement schema?

Definition
	An enablement schema is a force schema that involves having
	the physical or metaphorical power to perform some act, or a potential force and the absence of blockage or counterforce.

Generic
	An enablement schema is a kind of
	What is a force schema?

Source
	Johnson 1987 47

Concept module: enablement schema
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In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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