Is It Mine?
是不是我的
Paper 1 says that a person who lives by his own law draws lines in a matter. This paper asks whether the lines he draws are his own. What comes from outside, such as other people's evaluations, the measures of an institution or the words of one's elders, can be the reality he faces, his material and his illumination; it cannot be the legislating source of his value. What is negated is the position of deciding in his place, not the use of outside evaluation. When something from outside takes that position, this system calls it colonization. There is a kind that is pressed on him from outside, and a kind that he himself has come to believe, which others cannot see. That something has entered his heart does not mean it is already his law; nor does a habit gain that standing by being in his heart. Discovering one's own value is not retrieving a self long buried; it can be arriving in place for the first time. Whether a thing is one's own often cannot be told at the moment, and this is a real inability to tell; he acts within not being able to tell, and does not wait until he can tell before moving. Telling apart relies on looking back after the fact: following the account backward to see on what the thing counts as his own, and whether that ground stops with him or at a warrant from outside; checking what happened; checking the standing with which it enters his reasons today. Looking back can be wrong, can itself be looked back on, and does not rewrite what has already happened. Time does not tell things apart for anyone; it only gives distance, moments without outside pressure, and moments when there is no way around it. Looking back has one negative boundary: non-fabrication. This paper gives no test for recognizing colonization, and does not present sorting things out as an assignment everyone has. It says only this: for a person who stands firm in taking himself as an end and begins to take others as ends too, cultivating them, setting about sorting out what is his own is a cannot-not; if he does not even set about sorting out what is his own, there is no speaking of cultivating others. This is a direction, and not everyone will reach it.
Introduction
Several years have passed. That report was handed in long ago; the other team later learned of the problem too, and the matter came to an ending of its own. The man who prepares the reports has since moved to another group, where he still prepares reports. One day a new colleague who has just joined the group asks him: why did you speak up back then?
He can answer, and yet the answer does not seem complete. He remembers that he could not not speak up. He also remembers that, that year, he cared a great deal about the year-end evaluation, so much that there were several nights he could not sleep. He spoke up because he did not regard the other team as people it was fine to keep in the dark, and this he still avows today. But caring so much about that evaluation: what was that for? Was that caring his own?
Paper 1 is about how a person draws lines (D1–D7); Paper 2 is about how he walks out of other people's rules, beginning with a not-doing (D8–D12). Paper 2 also says that recognizing colonization is sometimes easy and sometimes hard. This paper asks about the hard kind: whether the lines he has drawn are his own. On the day the line is drawn, this question often cannot be answered; the answer waits until he looks back later. What this paper sets out to answer is how a person tells whether a thing is his own, and how he acts when he cannot tell. The answer goes in seven steps. §1 says what things from outside can and cannot do; §2, that what has entered his heart is not thereby already his law; §3, that discovering one's own value is not retrieving; §4, that when one cannot tell for now, it is a real inability to tell; §5 is about looking back; §6 says what time gives here and what it does not, and why, for a person who begins to cultivate others, sorting out what is his own is a cannot-not; §7 gives the one negative boundary of looking back, non-fabrication. The sections establish six propositions in all (D13–D18), listed together at the end. The text names no outside theorists and cites no historical events; the conclusions of upstream papers are only restated in plain words, with the paper cited in parentheses; how this paper connects with existing theories is left to Paper 0.
§1 What Outside Measures Can Do
That year, the year-end evaluation had five grades. His manager said that only those who got the first grade were good employees in this line of work. That year he got the third grade, because of the report.
The evaluation was real. It decided his bonus that year, whether he could transfer the next year to the group he wanted, and how others saw him. All of this was reality he faced, and all of it could enter his judgment: he could still weigh how much less he would get for speaking up, and whether it was worth talking to his manager once first. A person who lives by his own law does not pretend that these things do not exist.
What comes from outside can also be material. That year his manager said he was "too much of a stickler." He thought about this later, and found that half of it was right: there were a few things he had been a stickler about when there was really no call for it. What comes from outside can also be illumination. An older colleague once said to him: a report is for people to read, and who reads it often matters more than the numbers themselves. He remembered this for many years.
There is only one thing outside measures cannot do: decide for him what his value is. His manager's saying that only the first grade makes a good employee can be a true description; that company really does count that way. It can also be material for his weighing. But it cannot make "getting the first grade" something he himself holds dear. Whether a thing counts as his value turns on whether it has found its footing in him, not on whether it appears on someone else's scorecard. This system puts the point precisely: knowing that something is regarded as valuable elsewhere and discovering that it is a value of one's own are two different things; "the word that is missing is own" (Value Theory P3 V36).
When something from outside takes this position and decides for him what his value is, that is what Paper 2 calls colonization. Paper 2 says that colonization has two branches (Paper 2, §2); here the two are described in a little more detail (Value Theory P3 V36). In one, it is pressed on him from outside: others say that something is his, and denying it does him no good, because his denial cannot get in. This kind lies between him and others, and the people around can see it. In the other, he himself has come to believe it: something counts as his, while the ground for that in fact rests on a warrant from outside, such as a manager's say-so, an institution's ranking or a saying of his elders, and he has not seen this. This kind is called self-colonization. It is held up by his own believing it, and others cannot see it. Neither kind presupposes that anyone meant it; the word here is not a moral accusation (Foundational Paper 2).
D13 What comes from outside can be the reality a person faces, his material and his illumination; it cannot be the legislating source of his value. What is negated is the position of deciding in his place, not the use of outside evaluation.
This proposition is often read as "don't listen to others." It does not say that. Evaluations can still be listened to and used, and they can lead him to change. What is negated is only a position: the position of deciding in his place. The Conflict Treatise says the same thing: a conflict can give him reasons, material, pressure and new facts, and can trigger him to change, but it cannot complete for him the confirmation that "this rewriting is indeed mine" (Conflict Treatise §9). Outside evaluation is the same. If he changes, it is he who is changing; if others change him and he believes he changed himself, that is what this section is about.
§2 What Comes In Is Not Thereby Decided for Him
He took in what the older colleague said. Today, when he looks at a report, his first thought is who it is for; that way of looking was first given to him by someone else. Does this count as having been decided in his place?
No. That something was first given by someone else does not prevent it from later growing in him. This system is clear on this point: where a thing came from does not enter this judgment; what is looked at is on what it now counts as his (Value Theory P3 V36). The older colleague gave him a sentence; that sentence later found its footing again and again in his own work, and he does not believe it because the older colleague once said it. Taking illumination from others and refusing to have things decided in one's place by others can both be done at once.
The hard case is something else. Over these years he has formed a habit: when a report comes into his hands, he looks first at whether the numbers look good. He does not do it on purpose; after long practice, his eyes go there first by themselves. This habit is in his heart, automatic, effortless, always there. Is it his law?
These things do not make it so. This system says that a warrant from outside can be remembered, made into habit, and thereafter recur by itself, requiring no further outside input: "the source remains outside, while the running need not be. Automatic, effortless, persistent — none of these moves the resting point of the chain of standing" (Value Theory P3 V37). Nor does habituation produce ownership (Value Theory P4 V46). An earlier paper of this system describes the same situation: the logic of an outside system is taken in by a person and becomes the way he sees himself; no one forces him, and he runs by it on his own (Foundational Paper 2). Looking first at whether the numbers look good may be just that company's logic running by itself in him.
This does not mean every habit is suspect. A person's carefulness or punctuality may also be a habit formed over long practice, and at the same time have grown in him. Being in his heart proves neither that it is his nor that it is not.
D14 That something has entered a person's heart does not mean it is already his law; a habit already in the heart does not gain the standing of his own law by being there.
§3 Discovery, Not Retrieval
For a time afterward, he found that what he cared about was the people behind the report who relied on it to make decisions: whether those reading it would be led astray by the numbers, whether someone next quarter would lose out because of how a figure was defined. This caring did not feel like remembering something; it felt more like seeing it for the first time.
Someone might say: you were always this kind of person; it's just that the company held you down for those years. This sounds pleasant, but this series does not put it that way. What this system calls discovery means only that something has taken a position in a person himself, not the finding of something that was already there (Value Theory P3 V36). Gaining is not retrieving either: to call it retrieving is to suggest that something original is waiting there to be retrieved; and some people have nothing prior to return to, so that what surfaces for the first time out of their own doing is also a gaining, not the coming back of anything (Value Theory P4 V50).
Nor can it be said the other way round: take away the caring of those years, and what remains is the real him. Taking away something held up from outside vacates a place; it does not uncover a self already built. Whether anything of his own surfaces in that place afterward, and whether he avows it if it does, are matters for afterward (Value Theory P3 V37; Meaning Theory P2 Y15, first).
D15 Discovering one's own value is not retrieving a self long buried; it can be arriving in place for the first time.
§4 Not Being Able to Tell for Now
Back to that year. Could he tell at the time whether that caring was his own?
He could not, and not because he was not careful enough. If that caring was self-colonization, then this is what it looked like: something taken as already his, running there, while he did not see that it was held up from outside. This system says that the words taken as already contain the fact that, at this moment, one has not seen that it comes from outside; if a person sees in the moment that it is not his own, that taking-as fails on the spot (Value Theory P3 V37). So anything of this kind that can be seen through in the moment is already not of this kind. That he could not tell at the time was a real inability to tell.
The scope of this statement is narrow. It covers only the question "is this my own?" (Meaning Theory P2 Y13, second). Facts that can be checked now are checked now: whether the other team already knew can be found out by looking into it, without waiting for later. Nor does it say that everyone, at every moment, necessarily has something not yet seen through; it says only that telling things apart at this level is not completed in the present (Meaning Theory P2 Y13, second). A doubt that arises for a moment does not show that the thing is not one's own: a moment's hesitation now neither settles that it is held up from outside nor dissolves anything one has avowed (Value Theory P3 V37). Not being able to tell does not mean there is no difference either: being unable to tell things apart in knowing is not the same as there being no difference in the first place (Meaning Theory P1 Y2).
So a person who lives by his own law acts within not being able to tell. That afternoon, when he went to speak up, he had not first worked out where every single thing in his heart came from; had he waited until every one of them was clear before moving, he could not have moved that day. He acted on the judgment available to him then, and left what he could not tell for later. How it is told apart later depends on the chances time gives, and on looking back; the next two sections take these up.
D16 Sometimes one cannot tell whether a thing is one's own, and this is a real inability to tell, not necessarily a failure to look closely. A person who lives by his own law acts within not being able to tell, and does not wait until he can tell before moving. Time by itself tells nothing apart for anyone: some things become one's own over time, others are only made familiar by time. Looking back can tell a particular item apart; it does not guarantee that every item will in the end be told apart; what has been told apart can still be asked about again.
§5 Looking Back
What he does in the days after the new colleague asks him why he spoke up is what this series calls looking back: checking, after the fact, whether an action issued from his own law or had its master swapped. Looking back checks three things.
The first is the source. He follows the account backward. Why did he care so much about that evaluation that year? Because only the first grade made a good employee. On what grounds did only the first grade make a good employee? Because his manager said so, and the company counted that way. Going further back, he can go no further: that ground stops at someone else's scorecard, not with him. Then the other thing: why did he speak up? Because he could not regard the other team as people it was fine to keep in the dark. On what grounds? Going further back, it stops with him: he avows that a person is an end, and this still holds today. This is how what this system calls retracing is done: following the account backward to see whether the chain of standing finally stops with oneself or at a warrant from outside (Value Theory P3 V37). Perhaps it was his father who first taught him honesty; this changes nothing. That it first came from his father does not mean it is held up by his father today; what is looked at is where it stops now, not where it came from (Value Theory P3 V36).
The second is the facts: what happened. Whether he hesitated at the time; whether he went first to his manager or first to the other team; what became of the other team afterward; how much less he got that year. The facts can be checked: he can go through the emails of that year, and ask the colleagues of that time. Whatever hangs under that event, the emails of that year, the later outcome, those sleepless nights, can all be used (Meaning Theory P1 Y2).
The third is the standing with which it enters his reasons today. That caring, now seen to have its ground outside, no longer enters his reasons with the standing "this is what I hold dear"; but it can still come in as a fact: the bonus money he did not get that year is still part of his situation today (Meaning Theory P1 Y12). What he avowed back then, not regarding people as ones it is fine to keep in the dark, still comes in today with the standing of something he has avowed. It does not lapse because it has gone unused these past years; it changes only if he revises it or exits it (Value Theory P4 V53). This is the step by which something avowed earlier becomes an action at this moment: it enters his reasons with today's standing, and then he judges and draws a line in a matter (Paper 1, §6).
There are a few places where it is easy to say too much about looking back.
Looking back can be wrong, and can itself be looked back on. Judging wrongly is possible (Conflict Treatise §3): today he concludes that the caring was held up from outside, and a few years from now he may see that part of it was in fact his own, the wish to do the work well. Nor does looking back rewrite what has already happened: though he sees today that the caring was not his own, that year still happened, and he still did not sleep those nights (Meaning Theory P1 Y4, first; Y7).
Looking back looks at lines already drawn; it is not looking into one's heart. It is not introspection in the present; it is following the account backward across time (Value Theory P3 V37). So what it goes on is accounts and facts, not the feeling of the moment: feeling right now that this is mine does not make it his, and feeling that it is not mine does not dissolve anything either. His privilege here is being able to follow his own law backward, not that whatever he says counts (Value Theory P3 V37).
Only he himself can do the looking back. The new colleague can ask him, and the question is very useful; but if the new colleague says "that caring of yours was never your own," the colleague has not determined anything. He cannot determine it, because reading it means following the other man's own law backward (Value Theory P3 V37). What others can do is hand him a question, hand him a view he could not have thought of inside that framing (Value Theory P3 V37; Foundational Paper 2). A person held up for years by one framing often only begins to go backward when someone outside that framing asks him a question.
When looking back sees that something is held up from outside, that thing no longer counts as his; it falls back to being a candidate. Whether it becomes his afterward is a further step, which requires that it find its footing in him (Value Theory P3 V37). His seeing that the caring was held up by the company's scorecard does not mean that from then on he stops caring about doing the work well; doing the work well will, from then on, either find its footing in him anew or not. After looking back, he may change. When it is he himself who changes, this system calls it self-cultivation; when something else changes him and he believes he changed himself, that is self-colonization (Conflict Treatise §9). Making a judgment among the clues, the facts and his own looking back is still the work of judgment (Conflict Treatise §3). Paper 4 will take up a kind of thing one cannot tell at the time: whether, that time, he really could not do it, or was pretending that he could not; that too is looked back on in the way described here.
D17 Looking back is checking, after the fact, whether an action issued from one's own law or had its master swapped: what is checked is the source, the facts, and the standing with which it enters one's reasons today; any material hung under the entry can be used; looking back can be wrong, can itself be looked back on, and does not rewrite what has already happened.
§6 What Time Gives, and What It Does Not
Time by itself tells nothing apart for anyone. If something is held up from outside, then however long it is held, that ground will not move by itself from outside to him: "This is therefore not something that will settle itself with time" (Value Theory P3 V37). Habituation produces no ownership, and long holding produces no avowal (Value Theory P4 V46).
But things do happen in time. Something can become his over time: some avowals are made at once, others take shape slowly; a person often only settles it after trying to live with it for a while, and what happens in that stretch is not the gathering of evidence but the avowal itself slowly taking shape (Value Theory P4 V46). A person does the same thing for ten years. Those ten years may be one and the same running gone through many times, never avowed by him; or they may be a single avowal slowly taking shape across the decade and settling somewhere along the way. Seen from outside, it is the same ten years (Value Theory P4 V46). Nor is there a fixed time for recognizing it: that can come together with the avowal, or later, in the doing and in looking back (Value Theory P4 V46).
What time gives is three things. The first is distance: the present moment is excluded, and the moments available lie afterward (Value Theory P3 V37). The second is moments without outside pressure: when the manager is not around and the evaluation does not count, is the thing still there? The third is moments when there is no way around it: when it truly comes to choosing, what did he choose? All three are clues, not criteria.
Three people can make clearer what time gives and what it does not.
One man studied medicine because his family decided it back then. Looking back twenty years later, one thing is clear to him: over these years it has become his. Not that it was his from the start; he slowly came to avow it, operation after operation, patient after patient. What time gives here is time for taking shape.
Another man said all his life that he loved to paint, yet he seldom painted. Time laid out the clues: when he could paint, he did not; when no one was pushing him, he did not either. But the clues did not do the looking for him. Perhaps he lacked the conditions; perhaps the words "you have a gift for painting" had all along been holding up "I love to paint" for him, and that can be read only by his own going backward.
A third man had hated his parents' frugality since childhood, and was frugal all his own life. Time has made the frugality he avowed himself and the frugality that was only made familiar equally familiar. Being familiar does not mean it is his own, nor that it is not.
This system has listed a few usable means (Value Theory P3 V37; Meaning Theory P2 Y15, third): going back to ask on what this is mine; a reckoning with oneself across time; looking at the route of recurrence, that is, when something has faded and comes back, whether it comes back of itself or can only come back once someone vouches for it again. The route of recurrence is only a clue, not a criterion; none of the three is a test. Still being there when no one is pushing, being able to do it and never doing it: these too are only clues. Automatic, effortless, persistent: none of these moves where that ground stops (Value Theory P3 V37).
There are two ways of getting it the wrong way round. One is to announce "I finally know who I am," calling finished what is not yet finished. The other is to say "only once I have worked out the real me can I begin," waiting for a true self that does not exist. The first takes one looking back for a final draft; the second makes looking back a precondition for starting to act. A person has no final draft, and does not wait for one before acting (Meaning Theory P2 Y15).
Sorting things out is not an assignment either. In Meaning Theory this system sets down a guarding sentence: saying how an identification can be corrected does not amount to requiring a person to set that identification going, and does not register not setting it going as a failure (Meaning Theory P1 Y12); "and that there is something to do is not an ought" (Meaning Theory P2 Y15, third). What has been told apart can also still be asked about again.
Saying it is not an assignment means that no one assigns it to anyone from outside. But for some people it comes from the position they themselves stand in. A person stands firm in taking himself as an end, and begins to take others as ends too, and to cultivate them; once he has come this far, setting about carefully sorting out what is his own is, for him, a cannot-not. No new proposition is set up here; this is a joint reading of D13, D18 and Paper 6's D33 and D35, at the position of handing something to another person. Cultivation means not replacing another person's own law with one's own purposes, and only giving the other person's own law surroundings in which it can unfold; which way it unfolds is up to that person himself (Moral Law P9, Abstract and §2.2). Here, in two places, sorting out cannot be done without. One is the boundary: if he cannot tell what is his and what is the other person's, he cannot hold to "not replacing." The other is what he hands over. Something in him still stands on a warrant from outside, while he believes it is his own; when he hands it to another person, there is the risk of passing on something whose source has not been sorted out, as though it were "my law." If he goes further and avows it on the other person's behalf, implanting outside rules and identities in that person, then even if it comes from goodwill, this system calls it mild colonization (Moral Law P9 §2.2). What is described here is the shape of that act, not a verdict on the person who hands things over. So if he does not even set about sorting out what is his own, there is no speaking of cultivating others.
This cannot-not, too, hangs on conditions, and falls into the two layers of Paper 1. Standing here, the question cannot be cancelled: whether what he hands to others is his own is not something he can treat as having nothing to do with him (Paper 1, D5; Paper 6, D33). Which thing, when to set about sorting it out, and how far to take it rest on his judgment, which can be questioned and can be wrong. The cannot-not here is setting about sorting it out, not having already sorted it out: not being able to tell at the moment is a real inability to tell (§4), and he acts within it all the same, in cultivating others as elsewhere. Only, he does not put this question down.
This is a direction. Standing firm in taking oneself as an end, and then going on to take others as ends too, is not something everyone will reach; and one who has reached it does not stand here in every matter (Paper 6, D33). For a person who has not come this far, this cannot-not does not rest on him, and others do not use it to measure him either. How cultivating others is done is the business of Paper 6; this paper goes only as far as this: a person heading there cannot get around his own share.
§7 Non-Fabrication
The new colleague is waiting for his answer. There is one answer that would be easiest: "I didn't even think about it at the time; I just went and spoke up." That is not true. He did think about it; he hesitated; he lost sleep.
Looking back has no test (Value Theory P3 V37); it relies on a person following his own account backward, and if the account is made up, what looking back reads is made up. So looking back has one negative boundary, which this paper holds to: non-fabrication. Its root is "honesty in practice": "Say what you did; say for whom you did it" (A16 Note 2). The reverse, fabrication, has also been named in this system: "a person may compose a clean story for himself, and may also disown as external what did grow under his own sources" (Value Theory P3 V37).
So non-fabrication has three faces. Not calling finished what is unfinished: he does not say "I had it all worked out back then." Not calling his own what had its master swapped: he does not recast his caring about the evaluation, after the fact, as "I have always aimed to do things as well as they can be done." And not calling swapped what is his own: he does not, to seem modest, put his speaking up down to "it's all what my dad taught me."
Meaning Theory also sets up a non-fabrication, concerning a stance: not calling a stopping a final draft without remainder, and not calling a later-acquired meaning the justification of an earlier harm (Meaning Theory P2 Y21). That one governs only literal claims of fact, and is narrower than this one; this one points the same way as it, but does not take it as its ground.
So how does he answer in the end? He says: I spoke up because I could not regard those people as ones it was fine to keep in the dark; that year I was also very afraid of losing my rating. Both are true, and only the first do I still avow today.
D18 Looking back has one negative boundary, which this paper holds to: non-fabrication. What was done is said to have been done; what is unfinished is not called finished; what had its master swapped is not called one's own, and what is one's own is not called swapped.
Conclusion
This paper has established six propositions. Taken together, they say: one's own value is not decided in one's place from outside, nor settled once and for all by one's own word; it is avowed again and again, between acting and looking back.
What this paper has not said is also recorded here. It gives no test for recognizing colonization: looking back is a going backward, not a procedure. It does not say that everyone necessarily has something not yet seen. It does not present sorting things out as an assignment everyone has; for a person heading toward cultivating others, setting about sorting out is a cannot-not, and this paper goes no further than that. It does not say that looking back judges rightly: judging wrongly is possible, and it can be looked back on again. Whether a person can or cannot do a thing in a given matter, and how body, emotion, habit and hesitation come into it, belong to Paper 4. How he treats the other person's share, not deciding for others what their value is, belongs to Paper 6; what this paper says, that others cannot decide for him in his place, is there also that he cannot decide for others in their place.
The Six Propositions of This Paper
D13 What comes from outside can be the reality a person faces, his material and his illumination; it cannot be the legislating source of his value. What is negated is the position of deciding in his place, not the use of outside evaluation.
D14 That something has entered a person's heart does not mean it is already his law; a habit already in the heart does not gain the standing of his own law by being there.
D15 Discovering one's own value is not retrieving a self long buried; it can be arriving in place for the first time.
D16 Sometimes one cannot tell whether a thing is one's own, and this is a real inability to tell, not necessarily a failure to look closely. A person who lives by his own law acts within not being able to tell, and does not wait until he can tell before moving. Time by itself tells nothing apart for anyone: some things become one's own over time, others are only made familiar by time. Looking back can tell a particular item apart; it does not guarantee that every item will in the end be told apart; what has been told apart can still be asked about again.
D17 Looking back is checking, after the fact, whether an action issued from one's own law or had its master swapped: what is checked is the source, the facts, and the standing with which it enters one's reasons today; any material hung under the entry can be used; looking back can be wrong, can itself be looked back on, and does not rewrite what has already happened.
D18 Looking back has one negative boundary, which this paper holds to: non-fabrication. What was done is said to have been done; what is unfinished is not called finished; what had its master swapped is not called one's own, and what is one's own is not called swapped.
Acknowledgments
This paper is the third in the Action Theory branch of the SAE (Self-as-an-End) philosophical system, and is signed by Han Qin alone. All philosophical argument and all decisions between alternatives were finally adjudicated by the author, who bears sole responsibility for the final text.
Drafting assistance and review were carried out with the help of large language models. Drafting and the internal precision audit were undertaken by Claude (Anthropic), and structural gatekeeping with pre-publication signature by ChatGPT (OpenAI); the first two review rounds of the series outline also included ontological-limit and contradiction detection and boundary testing, undertaken by Gemini (Google DeepMind) and Grok (xAI) respectively. The ten texts of the series received final review from the internal precision audit and the structural gate, followed by a check of every revised sentence. Thanks are due to these systems and to the research and engineering teams behind them. Their comments were adjudicated by the author item by item, and both what was adopted and what was rejected are on record.
This paper continues the standing product of an upstream-paraphrase audit table, comparing item by item what the paper says of upstream texts against their published wording. The record of revisions and withdrawals across the rounds of review is kept in the series outline and the review returns, and is not reproduced here. This English edition is an independent rewrite of the Chinese final text; a separate parity audit compared it with the Chinese paragraph by paragraph. The review markedly improved the precision and consistency of this paper, and thanks are due for it.
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Qin, H. (2026). On the Dynamics of Value (SAE Value Theory, Paper 4) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22050204
Qin, H. (2026). What Kind of Relation Meaning Is (SAE Meaning Theory, Paper 1) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22652134
Qin, H. (2026). The Finite Bearer's Carrying-Forward (SAE Meaning Theory, Paper 2) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22713651
Qin, H. (2026). SAE Conflict Treatise: How Subjecthood Is Not Swallowed by Conflict Itself [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22313628
Qin, H. (2026). The Institutional Architecture of Mixed Reality (SAE Moral Law, Paper 9) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20262737
II · This series
Qin, H. (2026). Not Doing and Cannot-Not-Doing (SAE Action Theory, Paper 1) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22970752
Qin, H. (2026). Anti-Colonization (SAE Action Theory, Paper 2) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22970758
Qin, H. (2026). Can and Cannot (SAE Action Theory, Paper 4) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22970769
Qin, H. (2026). Not Legislating for Others (SAE Action Theory, Paper 6) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22970777