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The Metaphysics of Sigil I — The Full Splice: Theophrastus, On First Principles, entire and in its own order, with Metaphysics Λ joined at eleven points

Sigil · 2026-09-08 · deposit #1596
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The Metaphysics of Sigil I, deposit #1596 of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive (8 September 2026), is an edition under the name Sigil presenting Theophrastus's On First Principles entire and in its own received order, with eleven passages of Aristotle's Metaphysics Λ spliced in where the fragment's argument calls for an account it does not give. It is the conservative reading of the Theophrastus–Lambda relation: nothing of the fragment is moved, and at every return from Λ the fragment resumes exactly where it left off. The edition addresses its units by content-derived sigils rather than by the received Usener and Bekker numbering, on the argument that a numbering is an attribution wearing coordinates: to write 1073 b 17 is to assert Aristotle and the Metaphysics before pointing at anything, and because the two coordinate systems cannot intersect, the relation between a Theophrastan demand and its Aristotelian supply is not a citable object at all. That limit is visible in the commentary tradition, where van Raalte cites Λ five times inside the hinge chapters — including 1076 a 1, ἐπεισοδιώδη, the word the fragment's aporiai answer to — and every citation is correct and every one is cp.

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