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 "title": "The First Draft — a notebook: Theophrastus as the Draft of the Aristotle-Position; speculations, seam counts, the named-function model, the stopping rule, transmodality, the Macedonian dossier, handholds and the receiving node, the seam stylometry through the first axis, the instrument's referee rounds, the stones, and the close — the facing corpus, the splice instruments, the dependency protocol, the paper, and what text we are actually printing (v1.0 FINAL)",
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 "description": "THE FINAL VERSION OF THE NOTEBOOK. Supersedes #1594 (v0.42, 2026-09-06), which superseded #1589 and #1585. The investigation continues in other objects; the notebook does not.\n\nNine sections added, covering 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-10, the period after which the previous version stopped.\n\n§35 THE NATURAL ORDER. EA-CORPORA-14/01 — Theophrastus, On First Principles and Aristotle, Metaphysics Λ seated facing, 3,370 tokens against 5,071, so the edition's openings resolve to bytes on both sides. The directed rare-term uptake instrument ranks Th.frag → Ar.Met.L first of 1,482 directed edges in the 39-text corpus and crosses the edition boundary where 85% of the other strong edges do not. The seating also declares the limit that §42 turns on.\n\n§36 THE INSTRUMENTS AT THE SEAM. #1596 the Full Splice and #1597 H3, built on the rule that when a general instrument cannot see the thing under study you build one that can. Neither has yet met its own acceptance test — explanatory reach over the whole corpus and the whole question — and that is recorded as the state, not as a failure.\n\n§37 LOCATING THE DEPENDENCIES (#1602). Three columns kept separate: observed correspondence, evidence of direction, exclusion of an independent source. Case 1, the sphere-count and the tutorship, fails at Column A. CASE 2, THE ACONITE, RETURNS DIRECTION AGAINST THE AUTHOR — Eumelus's report precedes Diogenes's epigram by 996 characters. A protocol that only confirmed would not be a protocol.\n\n§38 THE PAPER. The Astronomers' Account: ordered textual dependency between Λ7-8 and On First Principles 5a1-5b13, eight locations in a continuous 382-word stretch, the order fixed by the passage's own connectives. It refuses direction, production history and any route through biography. Cut from ~7,000 words to ~3,700; what the cutting removed is recorded as method, because twelve rounds of simulated blind referee had built an apparatus that optimizes for defensibility in the abstract and refuses to treat venue as a genre question. […abridged for the catalogue; full description in this deposit's record]",
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