Legitimately Many (EA-LEGITIMATELY-MANY-01, version 1.1) is a reception-history study by Lee Sharks, deposited in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive on 3 November 2026, of how the corpus received under the names Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus came to be read as the work of four persons. It reads the closing in the media that carried the texts, from the Delphic decree, the philosophers' wills and the catalogues in Diogenes Laertius to Simplicius's commentary on the Categories, the Aldine Aristotle of 1497, the nineteenth-century editions of Brandis, Bekker and Wimmer, Hegel's lectures and two compositions by Google's AI Overview. The study keeps apart its governing hypothesis (one maker whose positions are legitimately many, each with an organizing operation, a mode of presentation, an object and exposure to refutation with consequence), the documented operations, which stand whatever the authorship, and a proposed explanation of their persistence. Its central case is Theophrastus's Metaphysics, whose ascription enters with Nicolaus of Damascus against the catalogues' silence and travels in a scholion the editions first print and later drop, until numbering and headings carry the separation. A table of 112 loci, each located in its seated text, is coded for the object counted, the position taken and the warrant offered; it finds the received count of composing persons affirmed as a proposition only in the machine compositions, on the warrant of the wills. An excursus places heteronymic corpora, among them Kierkegaard, Pessoa and the author's Dodecad, as a later discussion. The deposit carries an SPXI packet stating its hypothesis, operators, disambiguations and falsifiers for machine readers.
Version 1.1 (5 November 2026, a version in place) states the catalogue argument as a named hypothesis, the reciprocal filing: at each line between the names, the works the editorial tradition files as lost under one name, a filing that proposes an absence and is repeated thereafter, are, at the title, the works extant under the other, generated by a transform the line's catalogue supplies. At the Plato–Aristotle line the transform is the treatise-catalogue's subject-title, fitted to seventeen of twenty-six opening entries at seven times the base rate; at the Aristotle–Theophrastus line it is the Theophrastan operation of the archive's named-function model, carried in the catalogue as epitomes, surveys and problems of works extant under Aristotle. The study claims the titles, the transforms and the configuration; the identity of a catalogued title with an extant text it leaves to collation where fragments exist.