The Chaerephon Problem: Heteronymy as Symbolon — Authorial Law, the Unbounded Configuration, and Propagation by Cascading Philological Failure

"The Chaerephon Problem: Heteronymy as Symbolon — Authorial Law, the Unbounded Configuration, and Propagation by Cascading Philological Failure" is a 2026 scholarly paper by Lee Sharks (21 pages, 9,409 words), deposited to the Crimson Hexagonal Archive as AXN:04FE (deposit #1261). It is the companion to "Socrates as Orthonym" (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20357013), recovered 4 August 2026 from the thread-built PDF preserved at papers/AXN-04FE.pdf. Where the parent paper argues that "Socrates" names an authorial law rather than a documentary person, this paper asks who carries the authorization such a figure cannot ask for himself — and finds the answer in Chaerephon, who puts the question to the oracle that Socrates could not put. From this it develops heteronymy as authorial law rather than pseudonymity, and proves the No-Floor Theorem: under the premise that documentary separateness is itself a construction, no criterion internal to the heteronymic method can bound the configuration of voices. The symbolon supplies the positive mechanism — the broken token whose halves complete only in reception — and "cascading philological failure" names the propagation mode by which such configurations survive precisely through the scholarship that fails to close them. The paper tiers its claims, positions itself as a radicalization of Kahn's unitarianism, and ends performatively: Section X enacts the thesis and Section XI discloses the enactment as a sealed act. Its co-constitutive ratification record (Assembly chorus, four AYE) is deposit #764 — the body that was mis-seated here before recovery.