Appendix A: Table of statements

Every numbered statement of the volume, with its status and chapter. A compound status (for example F + L) flags a statement that joins a dated fact and its reading.

No.	Statement	Status	Chapter
1.1	Identity is a position, not a substance	L	1
1.2	Twentieth-century social thought established the primacy of the relation	F	1
1.3	Graph theory says it without metaphor	L	1
1.4	"Quebecois" is a relational identifier of exceptional density	L	1
1.5	Windsor and Jacobinism are two operations, not two peoples	L	1
1.6	The thesis sanctifies no bond: the question is "renegotiate or repudiate"	L	1
1.7	The Ireland of 1921 left annexation, not the relation	F + L	1
1.8	Refutation criterion of the thesis	P	1
1.9	First bolt: annexation is a regime with criteria, not a feeling	L	1
1.10	Second bolt: recursion	L	1
1.11	Every foundation carries a constitutive debt	L	1
1.12	Four rules of method	L	1
1.13	The reason for the essay	F	1
2.1	Ancien Regime France is not a French-speaking country	F	2
2.2	Villers-Cotterets (August 1539) unifies the language of the State, not that of the peoples	F	2
2.3	The survey of 1790 and the report of 16 Prairial Year II	F	2
2.4	Barere, then the decree of 2 Thermidor Year II	F	2
2.5	The Ferry laws and the practice of the "symbol"	F	2
2.6	The vergonha, terminal stage of annihilation	L	2
2.7	The results are measurable	F	2
2.8	The evil is not in the intention, it is in the software	L	2
2.9	The second rule of the Discourse on the Method	F	2
2.10	The isolated parcel loses its relational memory	L	2
2.11	Departments, calendar, clean slate on every axis	F	2
2.12	Fourteen centuries of dating declared void	L	2
2.13	Prefects, Code, lycees, University, Concordat	F	2
2.14	The Code saved the contents and killed the lineage	F + L	2
2.15	The Historical School of law	F	2
2.16	Gregoire and the Code are the same gesture applied to two neighboring tissues	L	2
2.17	The crisis of 1633	F	2
2.18	Fear transformed into an epistemological problem	L	2
2.19	Thirty-two days in 1794: a morphological echo, not a causal proof	F + L	2
2.20	A lineage won, not a people	L	2
2.21	"We decree, therefore we are."	L	2
3.1	The treaties of 1373 and 1386	F	3
3.2	An active alliance, invoked after five hundred and seventy years	F	3
3.3	No assimilation clause	F	3
3.4	Neither perfect equality nor English virtue	F + L	3
3.5	The structural lesson	L	3
3.6	Initial recruitment reveals the software	L	3
3.7	The English model: the colony as enterprise	F	3
3.8	The French model: the colony as administered annex	F	3
3.9	The Filles du roi: a State operation, not a slander	F	3
3.10	The dark side: salt smugglers and Louisiana roundups	F	3
3.11	Same problem, two softwares, two solutions	L	3
3.12	A ratio of about one to twenty in 1760	F + L	3
3.13	The Quebec counter-proof: changing software, not blood	L	3
4.1	The category error according to Ryle	F	4
4.2	"Independence" is a category of a person's maturation	L	4
4.3	The legal genealogy of the projection	F	4
4.4	Separatism dreams the people as a great Cartesian individual	L	4
4.5	The real political question: which relations, negotiated how	L	4
4.6	An entirely relational prosperity	F + L	4
4.7	The same grid, turned onto two societies	L	4
4.8	The Quebec-Windsor corridor	F + L	4
4.9	Business creation per capita, Quebec versus France	P	4
4.10	The objection, formulated by the essay itself	F	4
4.11	What the objection really proves	L	4
4.12	The objection from circumstance is an argument of scale	L	4
4.13	The positivist definition, reported exactly	F	4
4.14	Legal fetishism	L	4
4.15	Two lineages of law	L	4
4.16	The calculation of the marginal gain	L	4
4.17	Krasner: sovereignty as a bundle	F	4
4.18	The abusive conversion of status into power	L	4
4.19	To be sovereign is to be free within one's limit	L	4
4.20	"National sovereignty" is a fabricated limit bearing a stolen word	L	4
5.1	The first negotiates, the second fights	L	5
5.2	Indirect rule and negotiated transfers	F	5
5.3	The British liabilities, documented	F	5
5.4	The violence of repression, not that of a refusal of principle	L	5
5.5	The pathology proper to the relational model	L	5
5.6	The Commonwealth: empire inverted into association	F	5
5.7	The return test	L	5
5.8	Seven centuries of coercion, treated as internal	F	5
5.9	Imposition at entry, violence at exit, within a single State	L	5
5.10	Belfast 1998: when the software changes, the result changes	F + L	5
5.11	The series of wars and repressions	F	5
5.12	A software impossibility, not human wickedness	L	5
5.13	North shore: continued assimilation	F	5
5.14	An equation, not an accusation	L	5
5.15	Denied memory	F	5
5.16	South shore: inherited software	F	5
5.17	The same software, on both shores	L	5
5.18	Conquista and feitoria	F	5
5.19	Exits diverge as entries do	F	5
5.20	A relation-colony can become a partner	L	5
5.21	The Estado Novo: the best proof of the thesis	F + L	5
5.22	Classification is made on entry criteria, never on exit	L	5
5.23	The Thirteen Colonies refine the law and make it dynamic	F + L	5
5.24	The law in its complete form	L	5
5.25	Identification protocol and refutation criterion of the law	P	5
5.26	The unit of analysis is the political movement, not the people	L	5
5.27	One does not leave Jacobinism by reproducing it at a smaller scale	L	5
6.1	Durham, the Act of Union, and the coalition of 1848	F	6
6.2	The assimilationist gesture fails where the relational gesture succeeds	L	6
6.3	A narrative born as a plea inherits the grammar of the plea	F + L	6
6.4	The Dollard des Ormeaux case	F	6
6.5	The mechanism of amplification	L	6
6.6	The Marcel Trudel case	F	6
6.7	Defending one's narrative against one's history	L	6
6.8	Quebec historiography is not reducible to this duel	F + L	6
6.9	A selection system saturates the libraries	L	6
6.10	The corpora of artificial intelligences replicate the selection	L	6
6.11	A heritage is not afraid of its archives	L	6
6.12	The law of 1905 is a law of liberty	F	6
6.13	The drift: from the neutrality of the State to the invisibility of the citizen	F	6
6.14	Visible difference becomes the problem	L	6
6.15	The Quebec import: from Herouxville to Bill 21	F	6
6.16	The Herouxville document says more about its author than about its addressee	L	6
6.17	Purity against the world: a three-term equation	L	6
6.18	The preemptive notwithstanding clause, the purest legal symptom	L	6
7.1	The nine positions and their four pairs	Th	7
7.2	The two zeros and the error of 1801	L	7
7.3	Culture is the frozen identity of the present; heritage modulates	L	7
7.4	A culture that defends itself is already dead	L	7
7.5	Refutation criterion of the distinction	P	7
7.6	Lineage precedes culture, as the cadastre precedes the base	L	7
7.7	A lived case: a Portuguese lineage	F + L	7
7.8	Weaving is the normal operation of civilizations	L	7
7.9	Quebec is a heritage; what identity laws defend is a culture	L	7
7.10	The Quiet Revolution: un-fidelity to the culture out of fidelity to the lineage	L	7
7.11	Two grammars of power	F + L	7
7.12	Nationalism and civic patriotism	L	7
7.13	The code does not know separation	L	7
7.14	Readings dressed up as theorems	L	7
7.15	What the corpus says, in one line	L	7
7.16	The law assigns the channel, the relation assigns the language	F + L	7
7.17	The border does not filter packets	L	7
7.18	Three options, and the only one that bites	F + L	7
7.19	The future mass of French is extraterritorial	F + L	7
8.1	Unrecognized inversion pair	L	8
8.2	Articulating from positions that exempt one from operating	L	8
8.3	The refusal to examine the tools	L	8
8.4	Non-transmission, a structural consequence	L	8
8.5	Operating in the real without the language of what one does	L	8
8.6	The refusal to praise coherence	L	8
8.7	Vulnerability to narrative replacement	L	8
8.8	The asymmetry: the right is closer to completeness	L	8
8.9	Mutual projection, signature of unrecognized pairs	L	8
8.10	The double refusal of examination	L	8
8.11	The engineer and the bridge: the validation loop	L	8
8.12	The whole position exists in individuals, not as a camp	L	8
8.13	The two renunciations	L	8
8.14	The left keeps the post, the right operates the movement	L	8
8.15	The guard post, in Quebec: same post, different flag	F + L	8
8.16	Why the Quebec debate is badly engaged on both sides	L	8
8.17	Transversal affinity crosses territorial communities	L	8
8.18	The fictitious fight	L	8
8.19	A diagnosis articulated from inside both positions	F + L	8
8.20	Transmission-help	L	8
8.21	The diagnosis is not partisan	L	8
9.1	The constitutional zero point	L	9
9.2	Language as a political criterion	L	9
9.3	Hypotheses presented as certainties	L	9
9.4	The cut from the real source of strength	L	9
9.5	The moderate provisions, honestly reported	F	9
9.6	Three moments: the admission, dependence on third parties, the envelope	L	9
9.7	Arendt's distinction	F	9
9.8	A project that feeds on fear is not a project of the common	L	9
9.9	Ottawa, Madrid, London	F	9
9.10	The complete gradient, and the irony	L	9
9.11	The Canadian grievances	F	9
9.12	Each grievance is a deficit of pact, not a reason for rupture	L	9
9.13	The repairability criterion: the thesis is conditional	P	9
9.14	The counterfactual, anchored on the realized case	L	9
9.15	The Indigenous nations and the referendums of 1995	F	9
9.16	A principle claimed for oneself and refused to those older than oneself	L	9
9.17	The chain of links	L	9
10.1	The two columns	L	10
10.2	A software, not a language, a people or an attachment	L	10
10.3	The recapitulation	L	10
10.4	A third term already described	F	10
10.5	The Windsor model internalized	L	10
10.6	The evil is not the vertical, it is its capture	L	10
10.7	Althusius and Ostrom	F	10
10.8	The triad of sovereignty	L	10
10.9	The question for the future: at what scale does the decision live	L	10
10.10	Relational power to act and sovereignty restored	L	10
10.11	Proofs, not words	F + L	10
11.1	The word "politics" carries two incompatible regimes	L	11
11.2	Power is a parasitic relation of fear	L	11
11.3	Union eats fear	L	11
11.4	The asymmetry: the parasite and the body	L	11
11.5	The historical inversion: the common captured	L	11
11.6	Power rests on a misreading of the two	L	11
11.7	The struggle for power is structurally stupid	L	11
11.8	No vital function is organized as vertical domination	L	11
11.9	The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude	F	11
11.10	Two structurally exact discoveries	L	11
11.11	First hole: the "mishap" without cause	L	11
11.12	Second hole: the subtractive remedy	L	11
11.13	Third hole: no healthy vertical	L	11
11.14	The dissolution of the paradox: counting bonds	L	11
11.15	What the reading claims and does not claim	L	11
11.16	Westminster, Weil, Manin	F	11
11.17	The fearful reading of the two, cast in stone	L	11
11.18	The objection: what about disagreement?	L	11
11.19	The institutions where disagreement serves the decision	F	11
11.20	Where the decision touches those who make it, fear has no further use	L	11
11.21	Power as means, the vertical as edge	L	11
12.1	Five forms of power, a vertical container that widens	F + L	12
12.2	Each historical form died of its center	L	12
12.3	Democracy is a social operation grafted onto a container	L	12
12.4	The problem of representation is the problem of measurement	L	12
12.5	Apathy is a correct reading	L	12
12.6	The election squares the social body and discards sign and phase	L	12
12.7	The unpredictability of the people is the information discarded by the instrument	L	12
12.8	The platform is the square of the social	F + L	12
12.9	The real social is the double	L	12
12.10	The demarcation criterion: surviving extraction	L	12
12.11	Proof by exercise, not by anointing	F + L	12
12.12	Speed and distributed verification	F + L	12
12.13	Participatory democracy repatriated into its register	L	12
12.14	Speed alone is not enough: an empty center is needed	L	12
12.15	The birth criterion of the fifth form: no seat at the center	L	12
12.16	P-DEM-1: the graft cannot be repaired	P	12
12.17	P-DEM-2: the square closes back	P	12
12.18	P-DEM-3: the form is born outside the container	P	12
12.19	A tension held with chapter 11	L	12
12.20	Neither abolition, nor romanticism, nor date	L	12
13.1	Seven scales of one operator	L	13
13.2	Lineage and one half to the power 9	Th + L	13
13.3	The individual without a collective does not become human	F	13
13.4	(1, 8): individual and collective	L	13
13.5	(2, 7): production and consumption	L	13
13.6	(3, 6): power and responsibility	L	13
13.7	(4, 5): freedom and regulation	L	13
13.8	Six regimes, six correlated pathologies	L	13
13.9	Stability and diversity of the pairs	P	13
13.10	The cadastre, register of the city	F	13
13.11	Athens: ten tribes and five hundred councillors	F + L	13
13.12	Rome: seven hills, Twelve Tables, SPQR	F + L	13
13.13	The neighborhood as cell, zoning as amputation	L	13
13.14	The Chinese imperial 9	F + L	13
13.15	The 240 of the pound	Th + F	13
13.16	Decimal currency opens monetary algebra	L	13
13.17	Compound interest and usury	Th + F + L	13
13.18	Inflation and decimalization	P	13
13.19	The numbers of the great texts	F + L	13
13.20	Equality before the law as barycenter	L	13
13.21	Proportionality of punishments as involution	L	13
13.22	Phonology	F + L	13
13.23	Number bases	Th + F + L	13
13.24	The week and the seventh day	F + L	13
13.25	The double structure of French	F + L	13
13.26	Saudade, untranslatable inscription	L	13
13.27	Six amputations, six sedimentations	L	13
13.28	The contemporary crisis as accumulation, without fatalism	L	13
13.29	The family	L	13
13.30	The firm and non-profit organizations	F + L + Chantier	13
13.31	Medieval Islam, Japan, the Americas	F + L	13
13.32	Four protocols	P	13
13.33	The inverse of social utopia	L	13
14.1	Coherence is prior to any tool that formulates it	L	14
14.2	The inversion of the objection	L	14
14.3	Three structural properties of any delegation	L	14
14.4	Nine avatars on nine positions	L	14
14.5	The four pairs of avatars	L	14
14.6	Six structural tendencies, not accidents of bad faith	L	14
14.7	The growth of the State and the six pathologies	F + L	14
14.8	Representative democracy no longer operates the delegator's control of the delegate	L	14
14.9	Volkswagen (2015): internal capture	F + L	14
14.10	The FDA and opioids (1996 to 2018): external capture	F + L	14
14.11	Measurable democratic erosion	F + L	14
14.12	Central bank, international organizations, delegated knowledge	F + L + Chantier	14
14.13	Definition: four simultaneous conditions	L	14
14.14	The pathologies are weakenings of the conditions	L	14
14.15	The universal criterion of delegation	L	14
14.16	A reversibility index	Chantier	14
14.17	Three protocols	P	14
14.18	Neither utopian nor conservative	L	14
15.1	No theodicy	L	15
15.2	War carries its own reversal	L	15
15.3	Legible only beyond an amplitude threshold	L	15
15.4	The 8 kept in contact with the 9	L	15
15.5	An involution, not a policy	L	15
15.6	The 5: second-order peace	L	15
15.7	Dependence is more robust than threat	L	15
15.8	The same law at two amplitudes	L	15
15.9	One affirmation, and five refusals	L	15
16.1	Two circles in the human, the cycle alone in the animal	L	16
16.2	"Not inferior. Inverse. Everything and its inverse."	L	16
16.3	The face that geometry will give back to us	L	16
16.4	Permanent phase I: "they stopped at daddy guides"	L	16
16.5	Contemporary work on animal and plant consciousness	F	16
16.6	The institutional debate looks for the wrong consciousness	L	16
16.7	The child and the animal recognize each other	L	16
16.8	School and monocentered attention	L	16
16.9	Primary pain without a secondary layer	L	16
16.10	He associates: native pedagogy	F + L	16
16.11	Their consciousness is immense	L	16
16.12	No species wages ideological war	F + L	16
16.13	The adolescent rupture produces violence	L	16
16.14	"The mother is the father of all."	L	16
16.15	"He welcomes the stray individual without aggression. Only the group frightens."	L	16
16.16	The human has amputated the distinction	L	16
16.17	Fight, flight, freeze	F + L	16
16.18	Adult aggressiveness, signature of a pedagogical amputation	L	16
16.19	Hobbes regularized, and the wolf rehabilitated	F + L	16
16.20	Certainty and uncertainty in inverse tension	L	16
16.21	The art of living: refusing the second layer	L	16
16.22	A philosophical posture, with no therapeutic substitution	F + L	16
16.23	What the Book does not say	L	16
17.1	Sacrificed, not lost	L	17
17.2	First function: the regular return	L	17
17.3	Second function: normalization by a third party	L	17
17.4	Third function: the anonymity that disarms the ego, condition of the first two	L	17
17.5	Fourth function: deliverance, not a request for help	L	17
17.6	Being received, not approved	L	17
17.7	The two-faced mark and the reading third party	L	17
17.8	One cannot validate oneself	L	17
17.9	Being read in order to remain addressed	L	17
17.10	A tension to be defused is not a lack to be filled	F + L	17
17.11	Validation is a relation to be maintained, not a content to be stored	L	17
17.12	The secret governs the reading	L	17
17.13	Secret and repressed: same structure, inverse sovereignty	L	17
17.14	The held side: a cost, and a protection	L	17
17.15	The shared side: risk, pleasure, safety	L	17
17.16	The criterion: to whom does the mark kept secret belong?	L	17
17.17	Three levels, and confession held them all	L	17
17.18	Social networks occupy the empty place, each function turned around	L	17
17.19	Counterfeit validation	L	17
17.20	Online hatred is an old tension without an organ	L	17
17.21	The specification for an organ of deliverance	L	17
17.22	We kept the dogma and lost what defused it	L	17
18.1	Embodied, a virtue; observed, a fault	L	18
18.2	An exact involution around an invariant barycenter	L	18
18.3	The proof in one sentence: "in his place, I would act the same"	L	18
18.4	The gift and cronyism	L	18
18.5	The solution and power	L	18
18.6	The two paradoxes are the same	L	18
18.7	The inversion disguises itself as clear-sightedness	L	18
18.8	Precise on matter, nil on the human	L	18
18.9	Morality served as the instrument of the cut	L	18
18.10	What Jung had named; what the pair adds	F + L	18
18.11	Shame fabricates ugliness	L	18
18.12	The return: not burnt, but burning	L	18
18.13	The arithmetical fact of casting out nines	Th	18
18.14	The nines are discarded, and the nine governs verification	L	18
18.15	Three scales of the same operation	L	18
18.16	Pain is the fact; suffering is the war against the fact	L	18
18.17	Two symmetrical errors	L	18
18.18	To know oneself is to reintegrate the inverse	L	18
18.19	Giving behavior back its invariance, the gaze its symmetry	L	18
19.1	Cicéron forge indifferens	F	19
19.2	In-difference: the difference set to zero by the gaze	L	19
19.3	No position is its own inverse	Th	19
19.4	Nature fabricates pairs, not indifference	L	19
19.5	The digital root is a non-injective equivalence relation, which discards the turns	Th	19
19.6	Applied to a person, the operation yields the street	L	19
19.7	A life read as a void	L	19
19.8	The same gesture noted in several registers of the corpus	F	19
19.9	A tool that makes things equivalent ends up making people equivalent	L	19
19.10	Three dated gestures	F	19
19.11	Separate, fold back, impose	L	19
19.12	The corpus dates the gestures and does not judge the men: from Lazarus to the tool	L	19
19.13	The absence of deposited hope	L	19
19.14	By saturation, by cut	L	19
19.15	"Worse, bigger" than love: empathy	L	19
19.16	From the coarsest relation to the finest	Th	19
19.17	Zero everywhere, full everywhere	L	19
19.18	What each relation keeps can be counted	Th	19
19.19	Bigger than love	L	19
19.20	Worse than love: who pays, and when	L	19
19.21	Empathy is not a virtue, it is a deposit	L	19
19.22	Doubt is not evil	L	19
19.23	A fold cannot be unfolded back	Th	19
19.24	The society of judgment: a doubt deprived of its data	L	19
19.25	The inverse of judgment is shared walking	L	19
19.26	Five refusals	L	19
20.1	Three manifestations, one structure	L	20
20.2	The diagnostic criterion bears on a trait and an impairment of functioning	F + Chantier	20
20.3	The pathology threshold is a property of the relation between the individual and the frame	L	20
20.4	Non-delegable attention	L	20
20.5	The limit to carry: a remainder remains	L	20
20.6	What remains out of frame	L	20
20.7	Detection is good	L	20
20.8	The pointer is missing, and a false pointer is worse than none	L	20
20.9	Institutional contempt confirms the only true part	L	20
20.10	Holding both ends	L	20
20.11	Why the mass feels better	L	20
20.12	The conditions of aggregation, and the channel that destroys them	F + Chantier + L	20
20.13	Four anomalies of the same anatomy	F + Chantier	20
20.14	People are not wrong about the fact, they are wrong about the address	L	20
20.15	A non-delegable engine needs an axis	L	20
20.16	Five refusals	L	20
20.17	The planned order of writing	Chantier	20
21.1	The face that had not been named	L	21
21.2	Being content with little is not resigning oneself	L	21
21.3	The two faces together	L	21
21.4	The proof: a man, on his sofa	F + L	21
21.5	Transmission: proven, not taught	L	21
21.6	One law, four faces	L	21
21.7	First face: the trunk	L	21
21.8	Second face: the house	L	21
21.9	Third face: the figure	Th	21
21.10	The reading of the figure	L	21
21.11	Fourth face: saudade	L	21
21.12	Discovered, never invented	L	21
22.1	The code manages the power in place	L	22
22.2	The chain of separation	L	22
22.3	The invisible hand: the illusion of power, which controls everything	L	22
22.4	Man executes, discovers as he walks, and often reads badly	L	22
22.5	Regularize instead of reject: never a toppled statue	L	22
22.6	The Bible invented nothing: it noted the code	L	22
22.7	Showing that the Bible is a metaphor of the code 1 to 9	Chantier	22
22.8	An act is judged by its lived consequence	L	22
22.9	Good and evil are necessary to each other; the code is normative because entangled	L	22
22.10	Life is a controlled fall	L	22
22.11	At the center there is not nothing: there is the infinite, bounded from outside	L	22
22.12	What the sentence of the center says about the city	L	22
22.13	"I want to let others see."	F	22

Total: 413 numbered statements. By main status (components counted separately): Th 12, L 329, P 12, F 110, Open site 8.