ARC Corpus · Volume 0

The Threshold

Preface, method, statuses, Lexicon and map of the ARC corpus

« Rien n’est demandé au lecteur sauf de vérifier. Les preuves, pas les paroles. »

Filipe Bastos

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Abstract

The entrance to the ARC corpus (Architecture of Relational Coherence). This volume proves almost nothing by itself: it states where the work comes from, how it was done and under which rules. It opens with two texts by the author, then sets out the discipline of the corpus: five statuses (Theorem, Reading, Prediction, Fact, Open problem), the engraved rules R1 to R11 and the contradiction protocol. It continues with the Lexicon, which gives a single meaning to twenty words that science uses with several meanings, the map of the twelve volumes, the objections raised by external audits with the place where each is answered, the author's stated positions, and Les Phrases de la Nuit. A reader holding only this volume knows what the corpus claims, with what degree of certainty, and where to check.

Keywords: method, epistemic status, lexicon, corpus map, falsifiability, preface

The chapters themselves are in French. Open any chapter and use the Translate links in the header for a machine translation; the abstract and the table of statements on this page are translated by hand.

Résumé (français)

La porte du corpus ARC (Architecture de la Cohérence Relationnelle). Ce volume ne démontre presque rien par lui-même : il dit d'où vient le travail, comment il a été fait et sous quelles règles. Il s'ouvre sur deux textes de l'auteur, la pièce d'ouverture et la préface « Comment j'ai travaillé ». Il expose ensuite la discipline du corpus : cinq statuts (Théorème, Lecture, Prédiction, Fait, Chantier), les règles gravées R1 à R11, le protocole de contradiction. Viennent le Lexique, qui donne un sens unique à vingt mots que la science emploie à plusieurs sens, la carte des douze volumes, les objections reçues des audits extérieurs avec l'adresse des réponses, la posture du porteur, les positions tenues de l'auteur et Les Phrases de la Nuit. Un lecteur qui n'a que ce volume sait ce que le corpus affirme, avec quel degré de certitude, et où aller vérifier.

Keywords: méthode, statuts épistémiques, lexique, carte du corpus, falsifiabilité, préface

Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Opening piece
  3. Author's preface: How I worked
  4. Chapter 1. The discipline of the corpus
    • 1.1 The five statuses
    • 1.2 The engraved rules, R1 to R11
    • 1.3 The dated rules
    • 1.4 The rule of the two levels
    • 1.5 The protocol of contradiction
    • 1.6 The Stevin's tail test
    • 1.7 The principle of incarnation and the "For a child" rule
    • 1.8 The engraved lessons
    • 1.9 What this chapter does not say
  5. Chapter 2. The Lexicon
    • 2.1 The Lexicon, version 0.2
    • 2.2 Amendments proposed for version 0.3
    • 2.3 Glossary of cadastral terms
    • 2.4 The operative vocabulary
  6. Chapter 3. The map of the corpus
    • 3.1 The root apparatus in one page
    • 3.2 The twelve volumes
    • 3.3 The successive plans
    • 3.4 The index, the deposits, the priority
    • 3.5 The dated predictions
    • 3.6 The declared open questions
    • 3.7 Statements entered from the working pieces
    • 3.8 What this map does not say
  7. Chapter 4. The objections received and the corpus's answers
    • 4.1 First audit: "Epistemological, mathematical and cognitive analysis of the ARC corpus"
    • 4.2 Second audit: "The right signal and the wrong pointer"
    • 4.3 What the corpus does not yet answer
  8. Chapter 5. The bearer's stance
    • 5.1 What the corpus says it is not
    • 5.2 The seven principles of the bearer
    • 5.3 The bearer's position
    • 5.4 The bearer and the instrument of composition
    • 5.5 The objections of principle
    • 5.6 The bearer's ethics
    • 5.7 Transmission after the bearer
    • 5.8 What this chapter does not say
  9. Chapter 6. The author's held positions
    • 6.1 The founding text (11 May 2026)
    • 6.2 Proof, life, the walk
    • 6.3 Motivation and the model of change
    • 6.4 The corpus's own instruments
    • 6.5 The great problems
    • 6.6 Power, the code, the Bible
    • 6.7 The sentence of the center
    • 6.8 Working readings
    • 6.9 Publication
  10. Chapter 7. The Sentences of the Night
    • 1. The sentence of the center
    • 2. Order and constraint
    • 3. Entropy turned around
    • 4. The hourglass
    • 5. The hourglass and the Tsirelson bound
    • 6. The torus and topology
    • 7. The natural bound
    • 8. Good and evil, ethics, the image
    • 9. The five strands and iron
    • 10. The three turns
    • 11. The polynomial and the square
    • 12. What remains
  11. Chapter 8. The Strangler Fig: ARC facing each system
    • The reading grid
    • 1. ARC and quantum mechanics
    • 2. ARC and the mathematics of Euclid and Gauss
    • 3. ARC and classical physics, cosmology and fluids
    • 4. ARC and the life sciences
    • 5. ARC and present-day psychology
    • 6. ARC and the social and political sciences
    • 7. ARC and artificial intelligence
    • How the strangling takes place
    • Appendices
  12. Appendix A. Table of statements
  13. Appendix B. Withdrawals and corrections
  14. Appendix C. Merged sources
  15. Appendix D. Verifications redone
  16. Colophon

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