The Negative of the Negative, v2 — the Compositional Edition (EA-NEGONT-02), version 0.7, is a specification by Lee Sharks, deposited by the Crimson Hexagonal Archive on 5 October 2026. It supersedes version 0.6 (#1664) and folds in five rulings the author made that day, each quoted in its rulings log. The object is unchanged: at an address where an answer engine has composed a summary, the specification composes the entity twice under one algorithm, once from the full texts of the sources the engine itself surfaced, L(B), and once with the archive admitted on equal terms, L(B ∪ A), and measures what each comparison removes.
The main change is how the archive's side is chosen. Version 0.6 seeded it from deposits that carry the address concept and expanded one hop. Version 0.7 selects by the archive's bearing on the address, in three strata: direct, where the archive names the entity and says something about it; relational, where it relates the entity to one of its own objects, such as a heteronym, a mantle or a work; and ontological, where it applies one of its own categories to the entity, or to a class the disclosed field says the entity belongs to. The ontological stratum is guarded: it counts only where the archive applies the category itself. A citation hop from the deposits that reading admits reaches sources that do not use the term. The change lets the dataset measure the archive's influence on public entities for which it holds no deposit.
The other rulings carry both readings of the constitutive flag until it is settled; recode archive definitions as stipulations, under the rule that a source defining its own term is not describing itself; remove the cap on the control arm's citation expansion; and keep the panel a working list, frozen only after the procedure is.
Appendix A re-runs the model-collapse ledger under the rulings: 39 claims are recoded and 33 self-assessments kept, and the new selection recovers 26 of the 28 sources the old one admitted by hand. Appendix B is the first traversal of a public work, Ginsberg's Howl: no deposit is named for it, and 30 deposits bear on it, through the King of May mantle, the elegy for Howl, the reproduction of its book structure, the effective act, the archon, the standing canon and the Williams–Ginsberg contact pair. The specification is projected at alexanarch.org/non.