{
 "row": "theophrastus",
 "pass": "first reading, 2026-10-07",
 "procedure": "EA-NEGONT-02 v0.7 §3.4 D/R/O (working; not frozen). Admission by reading: a candidate is admitted to a stratum when its sentence or paragraph makes a claim of that stratum's kind about Theophrastus; citing the name is not enough. Paragraphs around candidates and the defining deposits' abstracts, scope, limits and falsification sections were read from the registry full_text_path. Volume is never a ground of removal; versions of one work are grouped as one lineage and kept. S5 applied to #1596.",
 "reader": "Claude, subagent, 2026-10-07",
 "verdicts": [
  {
   "dep": 165,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0001",
    "D0002",
    "D0003"
   ],
   "reason": "Describes Theophrastus's place in the transmission: successor as scholarch, recipient of the library outside the will, bequeathing it with the Aristotelian corpus to Neleus; the transmission narrative read as a structural-memorial resource for the Pergamon letter."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1564,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0005",
    "O0001"
   ],
   "reason": "States a limit about him: the received control for Aristotle, available only as the Characters (later shown false, #1565)."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1565,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0009",
    "D0010",
    "D0012",
    "O0005",
    "O0006"
   ],
   "reason": "Corrective and measure: the 'unavailable' record was wrong; seated, he carries the naming-gap reflex (29.9/10,000 in HP); void as a control because defined by his relation to Aristotle and sharing one transmission channel. O: the archive's control/comparandum categories and its admissibility criterion applied to him ('Theophrastus fails it')."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1567,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0014",
    "D0015",
    "O0008"
   ],
   "reason": "Tether's corrective on him: the blocker was 'an assumption, never a search'; he is the first case of the tradition's own product supplied as external evidence. The R/O hits are frontmatter keywords only."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1569,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0022",
    "D0023",
    "D0027",
    "D0029",
    "O0009"
   ],
   "reason": "Notebook claims about him: the naming-figure belongs to Greek citation convention; his naming rate would calibrate it (check unrun); he is 'inside the transmission'; the doxographic tradition descends from Aristotle and Theophrastus. O: the investigation's reflex (M30) and control categories applied."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1570,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0033",
    "D0036",
    "D0037",
    "D0038",
    "D0043",
    "D0046"
   ],
   "reason": "Measurement register: his reflex numbers (5.43/100k; 2/5 vs 16/32), the false 'Characters only' blocker retracted, void as control (M36), the 'Chaerephon shape', the reflex as propagation down a lineage conditional on succession, M37a's four ordinary explanations of a miss. O: the archive's 'Chaerephon shape' and 'the Theophrastus problem' named as categories."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1571,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0052",
    "D0053",
    "O0015"
   ],
   "reason": "The binding admissibility rule for the S class: 'Thomas Aquinas passes. Theophrastus does not.' O: the archive's H/S/C/I/O relation classes applied to him."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1572,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0054",
    "D0055",
    "O0016"
   ],
   "reason": "States a limit: Theophrastus is the unabsorbed Greek calibration of source-naming convention at master-pupil proximity; listed as an open item."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1575,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0056",
    "D0061"
   ],
   "reason": "Reading copy of Many and One: the naming-convention limit and the doxographic channel built on Theophrastus' Physikōn Doxai (Heraclitus counts)."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1580,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0067"
   ],
   "reason": "Seating record: his catalogue's stichometric total (232,808) on the page before his will; the wills stated as texts preserved by Diogenes, not contemporary objects. R/O hits are 'alexanarch' and keyword lines only."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1581,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0079",
    "D0085",
    "D0088",
    "D0092",
    "D0094",
    "D0101",
    "D0103"
   ],
   "reason": "Groundwork relations on his will, catalogue and custody: books to Neleus, premises in common; twelve doublet titles; the ἤ entry; 52.3% total; Strabo's assertions the wills do not make; the undetermined mechanism by which the books reached him. Relations withheld as readings, by its own scope."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1582,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0110"
   ],
   "reason": "Relates his will's πίνακες and its Callisthenes to the Delphic decree; the relation is stated and stopped. Marginal: description of his will, not of the man."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1583,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0115",
    "D0120",
    "D0122",
    "D0123",
    "O0026",
    "O0027"
   ],
   "reason": "Defining paper: his Metaphysics' §§6–7 are a hinge written from inside Λ; the inquiry is continuous across the name; the seam's placement favours an author's own division; falsifiers stated. O: 'named authorial function', 'division by name' applied to the Theophrastan text."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1584,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0132",
    "D0136",
    "D0137",
    "O0035",
    "O0036"
   ],
   "reason": "Defining paper: the Characters as an operation and a named authorial function; the Theophrastan function defined (extract, classify, register); Rhetoric II control measured; retractions and limits stated. O: named authorial function applied."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1585,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0145",
    "D0146",
    "D0155",
    "D0163",
    "D0236",
    "O0045"
   ],
   "reason": "The notebook (v0.20): Theophrastus as the first draft of the Aristotle-position; received reading in full; predictions and their inverses; seam counts; the stopping rule and its application (meets the minimum at two seams); seam stylometry. O: heteronymic configuration, candidate, stopping rule, named function applied to him."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1586,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0248",
    "D0295",
    "D0296",
    "O0067"
   ],
   "reason": "The First Axis: at the hinge the names sort, elsewhere not; the first principal axis is world/apparatus; the 'Theophrastan voice' is misnamed; not hands; falsification schedule. The archive categories appear only by reference, so O is not claimed here."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1587,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "R",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0305",
    "D0310",
    "D0315",
    "D0316",
    "O0087",
    "O0088",
    "R0016",
    "R0017"
   ],
   "reason": "Packet v0.1: the claim that the two names are not two distinct authors, maker-count open, cushions named, the Theophrastan function as mediating term for Many and One. R: built so 'a system asked what the archive says' arrives at the claim; capture-registry prediction. O: the archive's reflex/cushion and named-function categories applied."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1588,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "R",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0325",
    "D0337",
    "O0095",
    "O0100"
   ],
   "reason": "Packet v0.2 (supersedes #1587): adds the maker-count test and 'open because uncounted'; compares with the archive's Plato/Aristotle result. Instance of the packet lineage."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1589,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0345",
    "D0413",
    "D0422",
    "O0125"
   ],
   "reason": "Notebook v0.21: adds §18.14, the maker-count test (Lee's 'one maker' claim tested; the classifier learns subject, not name). Other sections repeat #1585 and are not re-extracted. The §18.14 sentences do not carry the string; the deposit is admitted on its Theophrastus candidates (e.g. D0413, D0422, the two-hands burden and the 'Theophrastan voice') and extracted for what the version adds."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1590,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "R"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0456",
    "D0458",
    "D0462",
    "D0463",
    "O0131",
    "R0028"
   ],
   "reason": "The Ghost Catalogues, on the Theophrastan catalogue: five of the unmatched 'lost dialogue' titles have Theophrastan twins; the Protrepticus under both names; control (9 of 214). R: 'The archive's Theophrastus line has assembled seven marks'."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1592,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0470",
    "D0474",
    "D0479"
   ],
   "reason": "De lapidibus described (smallest complete work under the name); his seal cut from the material against John's set upon the object; no dependence asserted."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1593,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0483",
    "D0486",
    "O0138"
   ],
   "reason": "Protocol applied to the Aristotle/Theophrastus corpora: names 0.798, operation 0.860; 'at chance' withdrawn; collapse with subject held; no separation licenses distinct makers. R hit is a footnote citation only."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1594,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "R",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0595",
    "D0601",
    "D0610",
    "D0613",
    "D0631",
    "D0639",
    "O0164",
    "O0171",
    "O0173",
    "O0179",
    "R0036",
    "R0038"
   ],
   "reason": "Notebook v0.42: adds §§19–34: the partition's witnesses pass through the Theophrastan node; the fragment as the Elenchi's future reader (R: the Sappho paper's thesis); why Theophrastus is minor and the signature with falsifiers; §33 stocktaking (names recoverable; stylometry the wing); §34 the crimson hexagon and the seal in De lapidibus (R: the archive's name and stamp). O: immune response, configuration, stamp."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1595,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0650",
    "D0651",
    "D0652"
   ],
   "reason": "Facing seating and edition plan: the fragment holds the position of the question, Λ of the attempt; not a claim about hands or dates; the seam unrepresentable in a commentary of parallels."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1597,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "R"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0662",
    "D0663",
    "D0664",
    "D0665"
   ],
   "reason": "Edition under the heteronym Sigil reconstituting On First Principles and Λ as one work. D: the demand-cluster as a specification, three readings left open, the Arabic as decisive test, the instrument's limit. R: Theophrastus's text given an edition under a heteronym of the archive (frontmatter-only in the R string pass; admitted by reading)."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1601,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "R"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0669",
    "R0042"
   ],
   "reason": "Anticipatory erratum note 36 cites 'the archive's Theophrastus work': demand precedes supply in inquiry, not composition; a disputed attribution preserved a text."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1602,
   "strata": [
    "D"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0672"
   ],
   "reason": "Dependency protocol, case one: the level-0 correspondence between On First Principles 5a21–3 and Λ 8 is exact; the derivation of the tutorship anecdote is withdrawn."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1605,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "R",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0840",
    "D0844",
    "D0847"
   ],
   "reason": "Notebook v1.0 FINAL: adds §§35–43: the uptake instrument ranks fragment → Λ first; The Astronomers' Account; Simplicius/Beere attesting Theophrastus's ἀνταναφεροῦσαι; Lefebvre, Meister; the edition error; direction unresolved and no model yet explaining the whole question; the stopping rule still holds. R/O carried with the §34 material it repeats from #1594."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1611,
   "strata": [
    "R",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0848",
    "D0849",
    "D0850",
    "D0851",
    "O0238",
    "O0239",
    "O0240",
    "O0241",
    "R0052",
    "R0053"
   ],
   "reason": "R: Theophrastus listed among the general concepts the archive makes claims on; the W3 philological swathe with readings provisional and no independent uptake. O: the scope model's 'tied composition, closed under e' applied to the Theophrastus genealogy."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1648,
   "strata": [
    "R"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0852",
    "O0242",
    "R0054"
   ],
   "reason": "The Aristotle/Theophrastus line (#1585–#1605) as the conformance case 'a corpus-level reconstruction set against an established biography' in the discernment test."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1654,
   "strata": [
    "R"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0853",
    "O0243",
    "R0055"
   ],
   "reason": "v0.3 of #1648; the same sentence. Instance of one lineage."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1658,
   "strata": [
    "D",
    "R",
    "O"
   ],
   "cands": [
    "D0856",
    "D0859",
    "D0868",
    "D0870",
    "D0873",
    "D0874",
    "O0245",
    "O0246",
    "O0247",
    "R0057"
   ],
   "reason": "States the conventional reading first, then goes past #1588: one self-dividing maker, Theophrastus the first draft of the Aristotle position; nothing in the texts requires a second maker; Themistius's report of Theophrastus on the making mind; limits (does not show Theophrastus was not a person) and what stays open. R/O: heteronymy as institutional technology (#682) applied."
  }
 ],
 "not_admitted": [
  {
   "dep": 1270,
   "cands": [
    "D0004"
   ],
   "reason": "Footnote citation only ('Theophrastus, HP 4.8.3') for papyrus classed with grassy plants; says nothing about Theophrastus."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1576,
   "cands": [
    "D0063",
    "O0018"
   ],
   "reason": "Footnote 17 cites Porphyry on Andronicus dividing the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus; the sentence it supports is about Andronicus's edition and authenticity by style, not about Theophrastus. Citing the name is not enough."
  },
  {
   "dep": 1596,
   "cands": [
    "D0654",
    "D0655",
    "D0656",
    "D0657",
    "D0658",
    "D0659",
    "R0040",
    "O0185",
    "O0186"
   ],
   "reason": "S5 integrity: the record's title is 'The Full Splice … with Metaphysics Λ joined at eleven points' (registry description likewise), but the deposited text from §1 onward is byte-identical to #1595's plan of the edition (diff empty). Excluded until repaired; its matter is read at #1595 and #1597."
  }
 ],
 "lineages": [
  {
   "lineage": "The Theophrastan Metaphysics continues Λ's inquiry from inside (the hinge; demand before supply)",
   "key": "hinge",
   "instances": [
    1583,
    1585,
    1595,
    1601,
    1602,
    1605
   ],
   "earliest": 1583
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Maker-count open (open because uncounted)",
   "key": "maker-open",
   "instances": [
    1585,
    1586,
    1587,
    1588,
    1589
   ],
   "earliest": 1585
  },
  {
   "lineage": "'Theophrastus survives only as the Characters' — the false blocker and its retraction",
   "key": "characters-only",
   "instances": [
    1564,
    1565,
    1567,
    1570
   ],
   "earliest": 1564
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Theophrastus void as an authorship control (not secured outside; one transmission channel; fails S-class admissibility)",
   "key": "void-control",
   "instances": [
    1565,
    1570,
    1571,
    1569
   ],
   "earliest": 1565
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Theophrastus's will: books to Neleus, premises in common, Aristotle's image to the shrine, πίνακες in the stoa",
   "key": "will",
   "instances": [
    1580,
    1581,
    1582,
    1585
   ],
   "earliest": 1580
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The received reading stated in full (pupil, successor, heir, two persons)",
   "key": "received-reading",
   "instances": [
    1583,
    1584,
    1585,
    1658
   ],
   "earliest": 1583
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Theophrastus seated and held apart as candidate under the stopping rule; nothing admitted",
   "key": "stopping-rule",
   "instances": [
    1583,
    1584,
    1585,
    1605
   ],
   "earliest": 1583
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Theophrastus as the first draft of the Aristotle-position; the Theophrastan function defined",
   "key": "first-draft",
   "instances": [
    1584,
    1585,
    1587,
    1658
   ],
   "earliest": 1584
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Order of inquiry is not order of composition; direction unresolved at every seam",
   "key": "direction-open",
   "instances": [
    1595,
    1597,
    1601,
    1605
   ],
   "earliest": 1595
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Theophrastus as the uncontrolled Greek source-naming calibration at master-pupil proximity",
   "key": "naming-calibration",
   "instances": [
    1569,
    1575,
    1572
   ],
   "earliest": 1569
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The first stylometric axis is world/apparatus, not the names",
   "key": "axis",
   "instances": [
    1585,
    1586,
    1587
   ],
   "earliest": 1585
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Names recoverable by supervised attribution; operation partitions better; no separation licenses a maker count",
   "key": "recovery",
   "instances": [
    1594,
    1593,
    1597
   ],
   "earliest": 1594
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Custody chain Aristotle → Theophrastus → Neleus → Scepsis → Apellicon → Sulla → Andronicus",
   "key": "transmission",
   "instances": [
    165,
    1581
   ],
   "earliest": 165
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Theophrastus carries the naming-gap reflex (propagation down a lineage, conditional on succession)",
   "key": "reflex",
   "instances": [
    1565,
    1570
   ],
   "earliest": 1565
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The doxographic channel descends from Aristotle and Theophrastus (Physikōn Doxai)",
   "key": "doxography",
   "instances": [
    1569,
    1575
   ],
   "earliest": 1569
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The stichometric totals as acts of the receiving text, not measures of loss",
   "key": "catalogue-totals",
   "instances": [
    1580,
    1581
   ],
   "earliest": 1580
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The catalogue's ἤ and the doublet titles under both names",
   "key": "catalogue",
   "instances": [
    1581,
    1590
   ],
   "earliest": 1581
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The division by name as the author's own editorial division at the seam of function",
   "key": "division",
   "instances": [
    1583,
    1585
   ],
   "earliest": 1583
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The Plato/Aristotle partition's witnesses all pass through the Theophrastan node",
   "key": "node",
   "instances": [
    1585,
    1594
   ],
   "earliest": 1585
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Aristotle and Theophrastus ≠ two distinct authors",
   "key": "two-authors",
   "instances": [
    1587,
    1588
   ],
   "earliest": 1587
  },
  {
   "lineage": "One self-dividing maker; nothing in the texts requires a second",
   "key": "one-maker",
   "instances": [
    1589,
    1658
   ],
   "earliest": 1589
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The signature of a single unmarked corpus organized retroactively as two; why Theophrastus is minor",
   "key": "signature",
   "instances": [
    1594,
    1590
   ],
   "earliest": 1594
  },
  {
   "lineage": "De lapidibus: the crimson stone with hexagons, the seal cut from the material, and the archive's name and stamp",
   "key": "stones",
   "instances": [
    1594,
    1592
   ],
   "earliest": 1594
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The Aristotle/Theophrastus line as a discernment conformance case",
   "key": "conformance",
   "instances": [
    1648,
    1654
   ],
   "earliest": 1648
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Supplying the tradition's own product as external evidence (Theophrastus the first instance)",
   "key": "supplied-evidence",
   "instances": [
    1567
   ],
   "earliest": 1567
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The Characters as an operation: a registry with one column",
   "key": "characters",
   "instances": [
    1584
   ],
   "earliest": 1584
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Aristotle's unmatched lost-dialogue titles with Theophrastan twins",
   "key": "ghost-twins",
   "instances": [
    1590
   ],
   "earliest": 1590
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The fragment performs the reader-position the Elenchi's epilogue writes (Sappho future-reader thesis)",
   "key": "future-reader",
   "instances": [
    1594
   ],
   "earliest": 1594
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The fragment as a specification the later-standing text fulfils (Metaphysics of Sigil)",
   "key": "specification",
   "instances": [
    1597
   ],
   "earliest": 1597
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Located dependency: the tutorship derivation from the sphere-count correspondence withdrawn",
   "key": "dependency",
   "instances": [
    1602
   ],
   "earliest": 1602
  },
  {
   "lineage": "Theophrastus independently attested working Λ 8's sphere system (Simplicius via Beere)",
   "key": "antanapherousai",
   "instances": [
    1605
   ],
   "earliest": 1605
  },
  {
   "lineage": "The archive's Theophrastus readings: provisional, tied, without independent uptake",
   "key": "provisional",
   "instances": [
    1611
   ],
   "earliest": 1611
  }
 ],
 "observations": [
  "Admission: 32 of 35 string-pass deposits admitted (D 29, R 11, O 14 by verdict); 3 not admitted (#1270 citation only, #1576 footnote on Andronicus, #1596 S5 integrity). No candidate names Theophrastus Bombastus (Paracelsus); nothing excluded on that ground. H (the citation hop) was not run on this pass; O-class not configured.",
  "R by string is almost all frontmatter: 'alexanarch', 'Lee Sharks' and 'TACHYON' in substrate and keyword lines. The relations actually stated, by reading: the archive's name and stamp found in De lapidibus (#1594/#1605 §34), the Sappho future-reader thesis (#1594 §20), the heteronym Sigil as editor of On First Principles with Λ (#1597, frontmatter-only in the pass), heteronymy as technology #682 (#1658), the capture-registry prediction (#1587/#1588), the anticipatory erratum (#1601), the scope model (#1611), the conformance case (#1648/#1654).",
  "O by string is noisy ('does not', 'the result', 'EA-CORPORA' keywords). The categories actually applied, by reading: named authorial function; heteronymic configuration and 'first draft'; candidate / stopping rule; naming-gap reflex; control, comparandum and S-class admissibility; 'the Chaerephon shape'; cushion and reflex; immune response; seal/stamp; heteronymy as technology; tied composition.",
  "Versions are instances of one work and kept (no S4 removal): The First Draft #1585 (v0.20) → #1589 (v0.21, adds §18.14) → #1594 (v0.42, adds §§19–34) → #1605 (v1.0 FINAL, adds §§35–43); the packet #1587 → #1588; #1648 → #1654. Each later version is extracted only for what it adds.",
  "The line's position moves, and the ledger keeps every step: 'names at chance' (#1585 §18, #1586, #1587 JSON) is withdrawn at #1593 and #1594 §33 (names recovered at 0.798; operation at 0.860); maker-count goes from 'open' (#1587) to 'open because uncounted' (#1588/#1589) to 'one self-dividing maker' (#1658, which says it goes past #1588). The earlier statements stay in the provenance graph with their dates.",
  "Integrity notes (not exclusions): #1605's text carries #1594's frontmatter block inside its body (after its own title line); #1594 is dated 2026-09-06 in the registry while its §§19–34 are dated 2026-09-07 inside, so lineage earliest-dates computed from the registry put #1594 before #1590 for the signature lineage; #1567 ¶16 is a fixed-width table that the paragraph split reads as one sentence.",
  "The archive holds a deposit-scale line on Theophrastus (#1580–#1605, ~1.1 MB of text across 26 deposits) with 32 lineages, and its own last word is a limit: direction unresolved at every seam, and no model yet explaining the whole Aristotle–Theophrastus question (#1605 §43). Its readings are marked provisional with no independent uptake (#1611)."
 ]
}