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(184b1–2)", "kernel": true, "const": true, "lineage": "the claim: total, first-person, exactly Aristotle's", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 6672, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-03", "dep": 1574, "claim": "184b1–2 translated whole: 'absolutely nothing else earlier to say'", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §1", "quote": "About syllogizing we had absolutely nothing else earlier to say, but were long at work seeking by practice.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the claim: total, first-person, exactly Aristotle's", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 6805, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-04", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the claim is first-person: the 'we' is the chapter's, πρότερον the time before this inquiry", "kind": "interpretation", "modality": "interpretation", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §1", "quote": "The \"we\" is the chapter's: προειλόμεθα (183a37), ὑπεθέμεθα (183b3), εἰρήκαμεν (183b6), διεληλύθαμεν (183b13), εἴχομεν (184b1). πρότερον is the time before this inquiry. ἄλλο is anything other than what the inquiry found by practice.", "kernel": true, "const": true, "lineage": "the claim: total, first-person, exactly Aristotle's", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 6914, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-05", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the Greek of 183b34–36 as seated", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §2", "quote": "Ταύτης δὲ τῆς πραγματείας οὐ τὸ μὲν ἦν τὸ δ᾽ οὐκ ἦν προεξειργασμένον, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν παντελῶς ὑπῆρχεν. (183b34–36)", "kernel": false, "const": true, "lineage": "the setting: this inquiry, rhetoric's succession, the teachers' products, the pardon", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 7274, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-06", "dep": 1574, "claim": "183b34–36 translated: not partly worked out, nothing at all there", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §2", "quote": "Of this inquiry, it was not that one part had been worked out beforehand and another had not; rather, nothing at all was there.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the setting: this inquiry, rhetoric's succession, the teachers' products, the pardon", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 7386, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-07", "dep": 1574, "claim": "Socrates is named inside the inquiry's definition, as the reason for its second task", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §2", "quote": "183b7–8 says that this second task is why Socrates asked but did not answer: he agreed that he did not know (διὰ τοῦτο Σωκράτης ἠρώτα ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἀπεκρίνετο· ὡμολόγει γὰρ οὐκ εἰδέναι).", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "Socrates inside the inquiry", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 7890, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-08", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the inquiry defined: a syllogistic capacity (183a37–b1)", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §2", "quote": "183a37–b8 says what the inquiry is: it undertook to find a certain syllogistic capacity concerning any problem set, from what is available as most reputable (δύναμίν τινα συλλογιστικὴν περὶ τοῦ προβληθέντος ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων ὡς ἐνδοξοτάτων, 183a37–b1)", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the setting: this inquiry, rhetoric's succession, the teachers' products, the pardon", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 7515, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-09", "dep": 1574, "claim": "rhetoric is the partly-worked-out kind; this inquiry is not", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §3", "quote": "183b34–35 says that this inquiry is not of that kind: it was not that one part had been worked out beforehand and another had not.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the setting: this inquiry, rhetoric's succession, the teachers' products, the pardon", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 9221, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-10", "dep": 1574, "claim": "παντελῶς three times in the treatise, all in ch. 34 (the third locus corrected to 183b29 in A3 n. 1)", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §4", "quote": "παντελῶς occurs three times in the treatise, all in this chapter", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the claim: total, first-person, exactly Aristotle's", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 9559, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-11", "dep": 1574, "claim": "184a3–4: the teachers gave the things from the art, not the art", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §5", "quote": "for they supposed they were educating by giving not the art but the things from the art.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the setting: this inquiry, rhetoric's succession, the teachers' products, the pardon", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 10859, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-12", "dep": 1574, "claim": "184b3–8: the method judged from its beginning, beside inquiries grown by transmission; pardon and gratitude", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §6", "quote": "184b3–8 says that the method is to be judged from the conditions it began from (ἐκ τοιούτων ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑπαρχόντων), against the other inquiries that have grown by transmission (παρὰ τὰς ἄλλας πραγματείας τὰς ἐκ παραδόσεως ηὐξημένας), with pardon for what it has left out and much gratitude for what has been found.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the setting: this inquiry, rhetoric's succession, the teachers' products, the pardon", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 12485, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-13", "dep": 1574, "claim": "184b1–2 is a μέν/δέ pair: rhetoric's things said against 'we had nothing to say' of syllogizing", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "Appendix A1, §6", "quote": "The sentence is a μέν-δέ pair. In the first member the verb is ὑπῆρχε, the subject τὰ λεγόμενα, and the prepositional phrase περὶ τῶν ῥητορικῶν. In the second the verb is εἴχομεν … λέγειν, the object παντελῶς οὐδέν, and the prepositional phrase περὶ τοῦ συλλογίζεσθαι.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the claim: total, first-person, exactly Aristotle's", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 12121, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-14", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the received reading, in every reference work, qualifies 'nothing' as nothing systematic, developed, no art", "kind": "attribution", "modality": "attributed", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§1 The object", "quote": "The received reading of the sentence, in every reference work and in the editorial correspondence that began this study, holds that \"nothing\" cannot mean nothing, since predecessors existed, and therefore means nothing *systematic*, nothing *developed*, no *art*.", "kernel": true, "const": false, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 121054, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-15", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the study's one question: is the qualifier in the sentence", "kind": "definition", "modality": "stipulation", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§1 The object", "quote": "The study asked one question: is that qualifier in the sentence, and if not, where does it come from.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 121318, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-16", "dep": 1574, "claim": "measured: every review inserted a qualifier between παντελῶς and οὐδέν", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§3.1 The adjective is conserved", "quote": "Whatever the paper said, the review inserted a qualifier between παντελῶς and οὐδέν, and named it: systematic (×6), developed (×4), transmissible (×3), articulated, theoretical, worked-out, teachable.", "kernel": true, "const": true, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 125699, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-17", "dep": 1574, "claim": "measured: the invariant of twenty reviews is the deletion of οὐ", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§3.3 The terminal form", "quote": "The operation is therefore measured to one particle. Twenty rounds, two models, eleven configurations; the invariant is the deletion of οὐ.", "kernel": true, "const": true, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 128746, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-18", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the terminal review's motto ('Aristotle denies not antecedents, but pre-elaboration') restores the denied configuration", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§3.3 The terminal form", "quote": "The governing phrase restores precisely the state excluded by the initial οὐ.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 128434, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-34", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the terminal review's endorsed governing phrase, quoted", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§3.3 The terminal form", "quote": "Aristotle denies not antecedents, but pre-elaboration.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 108337, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-19", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the support for placing Socrates before the nothing is external chronology ('plainly', 'of course, historically')", "kind": "fact", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§3.2 The residue has one content", "quote": "The support for keeping Socrates before the nothing is an adverb, external to the passage, and stated by the reviewers to be external to the passage.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "Socrates inside the inquiry", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 127281, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-20", "dep": 1574, "claim": "limit of the instrument: per-report model attribution not recorded; the transcripts are the data", "kind": "definition", "modality": "documented", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§2 The instrument", "quote": "Which of the two models produced a given report was not recorded at the time and cannot now be reconstructed by either party without inference; the pasted transcripts, as they stand, are the data.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 122060, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-21", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the deletion is self-administered and unperceived, as SE 16 (175a10–12) predicts", "kind": "interpretation", "modality": "interpretation", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§4 The mechanism", "quote": "The deletion is self-administered and unperceived.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 131093, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-22", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the deleted particle is a provenance claim: 'worked out beforehand' is 'from others'", "kind": "interpretation", "modality": "interpretation", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§5 Provenance erasure", "quote": "The deleted particle is a provenance claim. The chapter defines \"worked out beforehand\" as παρ᾽ ἑτέρων — from others (183b17).", "kernel": true, "const": true, "lineage": "provenance, not degree", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 132015, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-23", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the received account of the founding of logic is the sentence's denied member", "kind": "interpretation", "modality": "interpretation", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§5 Provenance erasure", "quote": "What the reception restores, at the cost of the particle, is provenance from others: Socrates before, Plato before, the dialogues as predecessors, the inquiry as inheritance. The received account of the founding of logic is the sentence's denied member.", "kernel": true, "const": true, "lineage": "provenance, not degree", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 132266, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-24", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the result is empirical; the provenance reading is marked interpretation (§§5–8 depend on §3, not conversely)", "kind": "self-description", "modality": "self-description", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§5 Provenance erasure", "quote": "*Empirical result:* the review trajectory converges on the configuration Aristotle's οὐ denies. *Interpretation:* because the denied configuration is defined by παρ᾽ ἑτέρων, the convergence can be described as restoration of provenance-from-others.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "limits and falsifiers", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 131697, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-25", "dep": 1574, "claim": "the reference works (Britannica, Wikipedia) are cited against the Greek; the loop of reference works and models closes with the text outside it", "kind": "interpretation", "modality": "interpretation", "strata": [ "R", "O" ], "locus": "§6 Machine-mediated reception", "quote": "The reviews cite Britannica and Wikipedia against the Greek; the reference works are the discipline's product; the models are trained on the reference works; the models review the sentence by the reference works.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 134442, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-26", "dep": 1574, "claim": "disciplinary model collapse defined, and applied to the reception of the sentence", "kind": "definition", "modality": "stipulation", "strata": [ "O" ], "locus": "§7 Disciplinary model collapse", "quote": "I call the homologous process in a discipline trained on its own reception *disciplinary model collapse*, and use the term on my own definition: a reading community whose outputs are conditioned on prior outputs rather than on the datum, and which therefore converges on the mode of its own readings.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "the qualifier as a measured erasure: the particle", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 135193, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-27", "dep": 1574, "claim": "held stable: nothing prior of syllogizing includes Socrates' syllogizing", "kind": "interpretation", "modality": "interpretation", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§9 What is held stable", "quote": "One proposition, throughout, in the text's own words: nothing prior of syllogizing includes Socrates' syllogizing.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "Socrates inside the inquiry", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "The Particle: Provenance Erasure at Sophistical Refutations 183b34, Measured — Machine-Mediated Reception, Disciplinary Model Collapse, and the World Soul as Degraded Commodity (EA-RECEPTION-PARTICLE-01 v0.2)", "creator": "Lee Sharks", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0666-text.md", "offset": 138595, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1574-28", "dep": 1574, "claim": "limit: the run does not establish Socrates inside the 'we'; 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1603, "claim": "established: Socrates is placed inside the explanation of the inquiry's second task", "kind": "interpretation", "modality": "interpretation", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§5 Socrates in the beginning", "quote": "That Socrates is placed inside the explanation of the inquiry's second task, the sentence establishes.", "kernel": false, "const": false, "lineage": "Socrates inside the inquiry", "date": "2026-09-08", "title": "Nothing Before Us: Socrates and the Ending of the Sophistical Refutations", "creator": "Sharks, Lee", "file": "data/texts/AXN-0693-text.md", "offset": 36301, "quote_ok": true }, { "id": "AO1603-16", "dep": 1603, "claim": "limit: Socrates inside the first person's referent is not demonstrated nor claimed so", "kind": "self-description", "modality": "self-description", "strata": [ "D" ], "locus": "§5", "quote": "That he stands inside the first person's referent, nothing here demonstrates, and nothing here claims it as demonstrated", "kernel": false, 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