 The six laws are offered by Royce as postulates, but they are intended to provide both relational and ontological parameters for ordering. The first two laws establish the existence of exclusive disjunctions which are necessary for a world in which there are agents. Laws three and four establish that the universe is such that it includes a principle of generation or emergence—there is at least one thing, and if there is one thing there are infinitely many  more.[9]  The fifth and sixth laws stipulate the constraints on emergent actions. The fifth law establishes paradoxical objects that, while compatible with two different incompatible objects, are not compatible with these objects when taken together. Likewise, the sixth law established that \(O\)-collections also generate new objects or terms that extend the possibilities included in a given O-collection. The six laws provide the generative landscape in which agents emerge and operate. They also reinforce the idea that agency is predicated on both selecting possibilities and losing them permanently so that agency, whatever else it involves, entails both opportunity and  sacrifice.[10]