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     "quote": "A corpus can generate elements of its own reception apparatus contemporaneously, including criticism, commentary, apocrypha, editorial history, and institutional interpretation.",
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     "quote": "What this changes in the reading of Λ 9 is small and exact: the celebrated identity is reached by a disjunctive elimination, and the ground given for it is the ground on which such an elimination can select at all.",
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   "statement": "So I shall argue: the fragment is the continuation of Λ's inquiry, one work with Λ by every mark the page can carry — question, vocabulary, position, and the hinge itself — and what divides them is not a break in the inquiry but a change of name at the point where the work's function changes: an editorial division of one work by named authorial function, which the catalogue, in one entry, confessed.",
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     "quote": "So I shall argue: the fragment is the continuation of Λ's inquiry, one work with Λ by every mark the page can carry — question, vocabulary, position, and the hinge itself — and what divides them is not a break in the inquiry but a change of name at the point where the work's function changes: an editorial division of one work by named authorial function, which the catalogue, in one entry, confessed.",
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   "statement": "An author's cut falls at a functional boundary. And this cut falls at the one sentence that changes the account's status: ἄρτιος ὁ λόγος under one name, λόγου δεῖται πλείονος under the other. Complete goes to the seal; needs-more goes to the draft. That is not where a partition would fall and it is exactly where a self-editing author would cut — the name changing at the point the function changes, and the hinge announcing both.",
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     "quote": "An author's cut falls at a functional boundary. And this cut falls at the one sentence that changes the account's status: ἄρτιος ὁ λόγος under one name, λόγου δεῖται πλείονος under the other. Complete goes to the seal; needs-more goes to the draft. That is not where a partition would fall and it is exactly where a self-editing author would cut — the name changing at the point the function changes, and the hinge announcing both.",
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     "quote": "the ἤ is not the tradition's confusion nor only a librarian's partition but *an author's own editorial division of the work by means of division at the seam of named authorial function*. The seam's placement is the argument — the cut falls at the one sentence where the account changes status (ἄρτιος ὁ λόγος / λόγου δεῖται πλείονος), which is where a self-editor cuts and not where a partition falls.",
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     "falsifier": "the test it gives the twelve doublet titles: is the Theophrastan member systematically the preparatory, collecting, or aporetic version? That is the next count."
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     "quote": "the ἤ is not the tradition's confusion nor only a librarian's partition but *an author's own editorial division of the work by means of division at the seam of named authorial function*. The seam's placement is the argument — the cut falls at the one sentence where the account changes status (ἄρτιος ὁ λόγος / λόγου δεῖται πλείονος), which is where a self-editor cuts and not where a partition falls.",
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   "statement": "## 5. What the speculation predicts, before more numbers\n\n1. At the fragment↔Λ seam: Λ answers the fragment's aporiai point by point, and the fragment does not use Λ's answers as givens.\n2. At the *Characters*↔Ethics seam: the Ethics' types contain the sketches' features plus the frame; the sketches do not contain the frame's vocabulary.",
   "falsifier": "Each prediction has an inverse that the received reading predicts. Where the inverse obtains, the draft reading weakens at that seam and says so;",
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     "quote": "## 5. What the speculation predicts, before more numbers\n\n1. At the fragment↔Λ seam: Λ answers the fragment's aporiai point by point, and the fragment does not use Λ's answers as givens.\n2. At the *Characters*↔Ethics seam: the Ethics' types contain the sketches' features plus the frame; the sketches do not contain the frame's vocabulary.",
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     "quote": "**The whole demand-cluster stands in Chapter II, at 5 a 14 – 5 b 10.** Not in Chapter VI, not at 8 a 21, where an earlier misreference put it — a hundred lines earlier than reported, and **before** the perception passage at 7 b 19-22 rather than after it. So the fragment issues its specification, refuses the astronomers' method, and draws the consequence that the first is not the cause of the best, all within its own second chapter, in about seventy lines.\n\nThat is not a pupil working through a master's book and objecting as he goes. It is a specification stated early, compactly, and once.",
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