From 248e36ea58347a456e76b2ef8a8f5eb93330377c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Ellison Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:19:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add Phi's first original philosophical dialogue --- README.md | 4 +- book/07_a_literature_before_a_community.md | 22 +- canon.md | 2 +- .../evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md | 2 +- .../phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt | 152 ++++++------- kia.md | 4 +- manual/appendices/appendix_a_glossary.md | 2 + manual/appendices/appendix_c_resources.md | 2 +- .../03_what_phi_attempts.md | 2 +- manual/part7_reference/sample_texts.md | 8 +- project/development_protocol.md | 2 +- project/handoff/current_state.md | 7 +- project/handoff/repository_workflow.md | 4 +- project/roadmap.md | 18 +- scripts/build_site.py | 11 +- scripts/content_catalogues.py | 1 + short_road.md | 6 +- texts/README.md | 3 +- texts/care_and_coercion.md | 200 ++++++++++++++++++ texts/catalogue.json | 7 + 20 files changed, 341 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-) create mode 100644 texts/care_and_coercion.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b1d3b53f..7422b82d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Phi is a philosophical constructed language for practicing mindful and compassionate speech. It asks speakers to attend to the present utterance: what they know, what they intend, and how their words may enter a relationship. Its unhurried quality is freedom from needless haste, not a prescribed speaking speed. -The language has one modifier-first organizing principle, regular forms, a lexicon past a thousand words, a literature shelf of translations and transmutations, and a published book asking what such a language can honestly claim. +The language has one modifier-first organizing principle, regular forms, a lexicon past a thousand words, a literature shelf of translations, transmutations, and original work, and a published book asking what such a language can honestly claim. Everything below is rendered to **[dcellison.github.io/phi](https://dcellison.github.io/phi/)** on every merge; the site opens at hello and offers its doors from there. This page is the map of the repository. @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Everything below is rendered to **[dcellison.github.io/phi](https://dcellison.gi | **The book** | [book/](book/) | Narrative nonfiction for a general reader: why the language works this way, and what the sciences of language and mind let it claim. A cold open, fourteen chapters, a close, and a consolidated bibliography. | | **The manual** | [manual/](manual/) | The complete reference: phonology, the particle system, ternary numerals, social practice, source-material boundaries, translation, and transmutation. For verification and depth. | | **The pamphlets** | [pamphlets/](pamphlets/) | Deep-dive companions to the manual: relative clauses and embedded speech, explained patiently, with exercises and answer keys. | -| **The texts** | [texts/](texts/) | Phi's literature: nine close translations and eleven transmutations, with seven works in both forms. The Ring Verse is a refusal, and *News from Nowhere* keeps its opening chapters together as one book. | +| **The texts** | [texts/](texts/) | Phi's literature: nine close translations, eleven transmutations, and one original work. Seven of the source works have both versions. The Ring Verse is a refusal, and *News from Nowhere* keeps its opening chapters together as one book. | | **The lexicon** | [explorer on the site](https://dcellison.github.io/phi/explore.html) | Every word and registered compound, with meanings and relations close at hand. | `documents/` says what the language **is**, the manual explains it, the primer teaches it, and the book asks **why**. `texts/` is where Phi is **read**; the pamphlets are where it is **practiced**. diff --git a/book/07_a_literature_before_a_community.md b/book/07_a_literature_before_a_community.md index 861206fc..c30eff1f 100644 --- a/book/07_a_literature_before_a_community.md +++ b/book/07_a_literature_before_a_community.md @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ The current shelf contains nearly fourteen hundred of these labeled source lines That does not prove that every source claim has been translated. An omitted sentence leaves no bad citation for a machine to catch. Nor can string matching decide whether a Phi line has narrowed a metaphor, strengthened an obligation, or turned a punishment into a garden. The program guards the quotation. The review ledger and the reader have to judge what was done beside it. -## Thirteen works and one reader +## Fourteen works and one reader -The shelf as it stands here contains thirteen works. Nine include a close translation, eleven include a transmutation, and seven appear in both forms. The arithmetic overlaps on purpose. A paired work belongs to both counts, which is less mysterious than many things that happen in libraries. +The shelf as it stands here contains fourteen works. Nine include a close translation, eleven include a transmutation, and one is an original Phi composition. Seven source works appear in both forms. The arithmetic overlaps on purpose. A paired work belongs to two counts; the original has had the decency to occupy only one. -The Metta Sutta opens the shelf. Fables, sacred texts, political declarations, and children's stories follow. A translation of *A Solarpunk Manifesto* sits near the front, while *News from Nowhere* has three of its planned thirty-two chapters. Literature is an accommodating word here: a declaration and a manifesto have been admitted without being made to pretend that they are novels. +The Metta Sutta opens the shelf. Fables, sacred texts, political declarations, and children's stories follow. A translation of *A Solarpunk Manifesto* sits near the front, followed by an original dialogue about care and coercion. *News from Nowhere* has three of its planned thirty-two chapters. Literature is an accommodating word here: a declaration and a manifesto have been admitted without being made to pretend that they are novels. There is no Phi reading group behind these numbers. The language has one known learner and designer, and the same person has final responsibility for every rendering. Chapter 3 ended with the observation that people adopt a community rather than a grammar. Phi has not disproved it. Instead, the project has made the unusual choice available to a solitary language maker: build the shelf first, then let a possible reader see whether there is anything worth gathering around. @@ -38,9 +38,11 @@ These pieces are useful because they are small enough to finish and familiar eno That is why the shelf moves outward. *The Velveteen Rabbit* puts affection beside wear and disability. Fever leads through contamination and burning before the story permits return. Morris moves through rooms and meals, then into clothing and craft. River knowledge meets political argument and the peculiar social customs of a future that no longer recognizes payment. The longer texts do not merely use more vocabulary. They keep a distinction alive long enough for an easy approximation to contradict itself twenty pages later. -## Two promises +## Three promises -Every Phi text declares its method before the first rendering. A translation promises to remain answerable to the source's claims and distinctions as closely as Phi permits. A transmutation permits the source to change under Phi's five pillars and habits of thought. Phi prefers transmutation as its own literary practice. Close translation remains beside it because preference is easier to trust when the alternative has been attempted honestly. +Every Phi text declares its method before the first rendering. A translation promises to remain answerable to the source's claims and distinctions as closely as Phi permits. A transmutation permits the source to change under Phi's five pillars and habits of thought. Phi prefers transmutation when it works from inherited material. Close translation remains beside it because preference is easier to trust when the alternative has been attempted honestly. + +An original makes a different promise. Phi comes first. English comes afterward and stays answerable to it. There is no inherited claim to preserve or recast, but the work still has to answer for what it says. A proposition record and vocabulary-pressure notes make that answer visible. The paired Babel text makes the difference visible in one act. The close translation follows the King James account of dispersal: @@ -66,9 +68,11 @@ The actor is now `muila`, earth. People move `phea lo thinoe`, like seeds. The s Calling both passages translations would hide the largest decision on the page. Calling the first one Phi's preferred telling would hide the claim that prompted the second. The paired form keeps two promises apart: translation shows what Phi can carry while staying close, and transmutation shows what Phi chooses when it accepts responsibility for changing the story. +The third method has no source to depart from. In *When Care Becomes Coercion*, two friends argue in Phi about danger, refusal, evidence, and authority. The English beneath each line follows the Phi; it cannot quietly improve the reasoning or lend the speakers a distinction they did not make. The proposition record then shows where the argument revised itself and where it stopped without a complete conclusion. + ## The space between the lines -Each aligned block gives the reader four things: the Phi sentence, its exact lexicon gloss, a literal English back-translation, and the source wording. The gloss answers a narrow question about the words. The back-translation answers a harder one about the sentence that those words actually made. The source line then shows what was gained, lost, or deliberately moved. +A translated or transmuted block gives the reader four things: the Phi sentence, its exact lexicon gloss, a literal English back-translation, and the source wording. An original block gives the first three because Phi is the source. The gloss answers a narrow question about the words. The back-translation answers a harder one about the sentence those words actually made. In inherited work, the source line then shows what was gained, lost, or deliberately moved. Back-translation needs its own honesty because fluent English is very good at repairing a sentence without permission. In "The North Wind and the Sun," `tiripe` means *quiver*, not *whipped*, and a strong pull is not the same act as *tore*. Those stronger verbs belong to Aesop's line. Returning them to the English beside the Phi would make the translation look closer than it is. @@ -76,6 +80,8 @@ A close translation then carries a limits table. Article 1's table records that A transmutation uses a gap log for a different purpose. The Babel log says that the LORD becomes earth, punishment becomes sowing, and Babel becomes `lo haluma`, Many Languages. It names the added garden coda as Phi's own. The Ring Verse log records that ruler and lord remain only in the separately presented source while the Phi lines name coercion and physical tying. A gap log is not an apology tucked beneath the work. It is where the work signs its changes. +An original has no source gap to inventory. Its proposition record follows the claims instead: which evidence both speakers accept, which inference is challenged, what one speaker retracts, and what remains unanswered. A second record notes where the vocabulary had to work. In the care dialogue, the English umbrella *control* separates into authority, coercion, consent, and refusal; technical `ketora` never enters the room. + Each pillar changes a text only where the source and Phi actually meet. Article 1 offers no material or organic scene for Art Nouveau aesthetics to remake. The Metta Sutta does not acquire a solar panel merely to prove that the solarpunk pillar was awake. Otherwise the five pillars would become five customs officers, each demanding that a poem surrender an image before entering. ## What the machine knows @@ -84,7 +90,7 @@ The validator checks more than quotations. It knows the whole lexicon. In a fenc Its competence has a clean edge. The validator can prove that `thiwera` exists and that its gloss is *scatter*. Whether scattering people like seeds is an honest transmutation or an evasive one lies beyond it. The code notices some prepositions with nowhere legal to stand, though it calls that check a net rather than a proof. A quotation missing one letter in a configured shelf citation fails; a complete set of perfectly cited bad judgments could pass. -Source coverage therefore belongs to review as well as code. The corpus ledger asks whether every proposition and relation survives in a translation, whether every departure in a transmutation is deliberate, whether optional vocabulary earns the burden it places on a reader, and whether the English says only what the Phi says. It also records a decision to keep a transparent composition. A direct root is not automatically better merely because the lexicon has one. +Source coverage therefore belongs to review as well as code. The corpus ledger asks whether every proposition and relation survives in a translation, whether every departure in a transmutation is deliberate, whether optional vocabulary earns the burden it places on a reader, and whether the English says only what the Phi says. For an original, it asks whether the proposition record matches the dialogue and whether an unresolved question was allowed to remain unresolved. It also records a decision to keep a transparent composition. A direct root is not automatically better merely because the lexicon has one. The division of labor matters. Machines are excellent at refusing the same mistake for the thousandth time. People are better placed to decide whether the rule refusing it was sensible in the first place. The arrangement works only while neither party is credited with the other's judgment. @@ -146,4 +152,4 @@ United Nations General Assembly. 1948. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A/ ### Phi sources -The shelf catalogue and its two-method doctrine are in `texts/README.md` and `texts/catalogue.json`. The paired Babel renderings are in `texts/babel_text.md`; Article 1 is in `texts/human_rights_article_one.md`; the review method and corpus decisions are in `documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md`. Source witnesses live in `texts/sources/`, while the three current *News from Nowhere* chapters share `texts/news_from_nowhere/source.txt`. Source verification is configured in `scripts/validate_examples.py`; catalogue membership is checked in `scripts/content_catalogues.py`; chapter discovery belongs to `scripts/build_site.py`. +The shelf catalogue and its three-method doctrine are in `texts/README.md` and `texts/catalogue.json`. The paired Babel renderings are in `texts/babel_text.md`; Article 1 is in `texts/human_rights_article_one.md`; the original care dialogue is in `texts/care_and_coercion.md`; the review method and corpus decisions are in `documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md`. Source witnesses live in `texts/sources/`, while the three current *News from Nowhere* chapters share `texts/news_from_nowhere/source.txt`. Source verification is configured in `scripts/validate_examples.py`; catalogue membership is checked in `scripts/content_catalogues.py`; chapter discovery belongs to `scripts/build_site.py`. diff --git a/canon.md b/canon.md index 34c36fee..e5574734 100644 --- a/canon.md +++ b/canon.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ When documents disagree, this is the authority order. Anything lower in the list 1. **`vocabulary/`** — the lexicon JSON files are the single source of truth for every lexical word: its form, gloss, IPA, syllables, and meaning. A lexical word not in the lexicon does not exist. Productive name-forms licensed by `ne` are proper designations rather than lexical words and gain no gloss or dictionary meaning. A gloss in a document that contradicts the lexicon is wrong. 2. **Grammar references** — `documents/grammar/particle_reference.md`, `complementizer_reference.md`, `numeral_reference.md`. These define the grammatical system: particle inventory and slot order, complementizer pairs, numeral structure. 3. **`manual/`** — the teaching text. Must agree with (1)–(2). -4. **`texts/`** — translations and transmutations. Must agree with (1)–(3). +4. **`texts/`** — translations, transmutations, and original Phi compositions. Must agree with (1)–(3). 5. **`pamphlets/`** — focused deep-dives. Must agree with (1)–(3). 6. **Design rationale:** `documents/reference/language_guide.md`, `documents/design/modifier_first_philosophy.md`, and `documents/design/psychological_violence_of_measurement.md`. Authoritative for *why*, not for word forms or grammar details. 7. **`archive/`** — historical record only. Never a reference for the current language. (The six narrative grammar chapters were dissolved into the manual, July 2026.) diff --git a/documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md b/documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md index 9f9d8a3e..7dabbc7a 100644 --- a/documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md +++ b/documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ This ledger tracks roadmap item SEM-01C: the active Phi corpus is being reread a Module vocabulary is adopted when its meaning earns the place. A transparent base expression remains when it is natural or better suited to the learning path, and a before-state passage stays unchanged when its limitations are evidence. -The shelf uses two methods. A translation remains answerable to the source at every proposition; composition solves lexical differences without granting permission to rewrite the claim. A transmutation may change the source through the language's concepts and commitments, but its freedom is not vagueness. The Phi line must agree with its exact gloss and back-translation; the citation and gap log must show what shifted. Reviewing a transmutation does not turn it into a translation. It clears accidental loss, misleading back-translations, stale vocabulary, and unexamined approximation while leaving defended choices in place. +Source-based work on the shelf uses two methods. A translation remains answerable to the source at every proposition; composition solves lexical differences without granting permission to rewrite the claim. A transmutation may change the source through the language's concepts and commitments, but its freedom is not vagueness. The Phi line must agree with its exact gloss and back-translation; the citation and gap log must show what shifted. Reviewing a transmutation does not turn it into a translation. It clears accidental loss, misleading back-translations, stale vocabulary, and unexamined approximation while leaving defended choices in place. ## Modifier-first purpose migration diff --git a/documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt b/documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt index 9a5d256f..40332cc4 100644 --- a/documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt +++ b/documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt @@ -1,42 +1,42 @@ # Generated by scripts/audit_phonetic_neighbors.py; do not hand-edit. # score unit_edits left left_gloss left_kind right right_gloss right_kind corpus_attestations -0.47 1 mia 1SG function mea thanks interjection 1929 -0.47 1 lu COND function lo PL function 1611 +0.47 1 mia 1SG function mea thanks interjection 1985 +0.47 1 lu COND function lo PL function 1622 0.47 1 shea peace content shia 3SG function 1456 -0.47 1 nila see content nela COORD function 730 +0.47 1 nila see content nela COORD function 735 0.47 1 so FUT function su OPT function 429 -0.47 1 wi two content we ALSO function 282 +0.47 1 wi two content we ALSO function 285 0.47 1 sholu complete content sholo QUOT.COMP.CLOSE function 281 0.47 1 ro HAB function ru INTS function 272 -0.47 1 ke INFER function ki PFV function 268 +0.47 1 ke INFER function ki PFV function 269 0.47 1 si IPFV function se PASS function 249 0.47 1 mu zero content mo CMPR function 228 -0.47 1 ni HON.INTIM function ne NAME function 177 -0.47 1 no IMP function nu ORD function 172 +0.47 1 ni HON.INTIM function ne NAME function 186 +0.47 1 no IMP function nu ORD function 175 0.47 1 nophi story content nophe ABST.CLF function 99 0.47 1 te CESS function ti REP function 97 +0.47 1 hi DIR function he IRR function 87 0.47 1 lau twenty-seven-group content lao BECAUSE function 87 -0.47 1 hi DIR function he IRR function 85 0.47 1 nia ON function nea aha interjection 74 0.47 1 wia how many function wea TOWARD function 72 0.47 1 le HON.ROLE function li RESTR function 70 0.47 1 phoi nine-group content phoe ANT function 61 0.47 1 phena kind content phina FEW function 58 -0.47 1 noa position content nua COM function 53 +0.47 1 noa position content nua COM function 56 0.47 1 phue wise content phoe ANT function 50 0.47 1 thua fair content thoa AMONG function 28 -0.47 1 sua who function soa sorry interjection 22 -0.47 1 wenu tonic content weno when function 5 -0.47 1 phelu hold content phelo light content 219 -0.47 1 philu candle content phelu hold content 216 -0.47 1 phaelo feel content phaelu peaceful content 167 -0.47 1 loa give content lua lovely interjection 156 -0.47 1 kelu become content kelo frame content 150 +0.47 1 sua who function soa sorry interjection 24 +0.47 1 wenu tonic content weno when function 6 +0.47 1 phelu hold content phelo light content 225 +0.47 1 philu candle content phelu hold content 222 +0.47 1 phaelo feel content phaelu peaceful content 171 +0.47 1 loa give content lua lovely interjection 157 +0.47 1 kelu become content kelo frame content 152 0.47 1 shilu blue content shelu book content 136 0.47 1 shelu book content shelo signify content 134 0.47 1 welao good content wilao long-for content 129 0.47 1 shero night content shiro tree content 111 -0.47 1 solae explain content sulae warm content 97 +0.47 1 solae explain content sulae warm content 99 0.47 1 sulai musician content sulae warm content 93 0.47 1 philo day content phelo light content 80 0.47 1 ruela path content roela scroll content 80 @@ -47,16 +47,16 @@ 0.47 1 kima scribe content kema strong content 47 0.47 1 thero fire content theru thick content 44 0.47 1 kelua morning content keloa rough content 41 -0.47 1 menua counselor content menoa face content 39 +0.47 1 menua counselor content menoa face content 40 0.47 1 shero night content sheru slow content 33 0.47 1 thero fire content thiro serene content 33 0.47 1 phui flute content phoi nine-group content 30 0.47 1 molu container content mulu low content 27 -0.47 1 solae explain content solai gold content 24 +0.47 1 solae explain content solai gold content 26 0.47 1 kuma drum content koma head content 23 +0.47 1 seru commit content siru marker content 22 0.47 1 kenua energy content kenoa hemp content 21 0.47 1 kolo equal content kolu steady content 21 -0.47 1 seru commit content siru marker content 21 0.47 1 solai gold content sulai musician content 20 0.47 1 helui change content heloi generous content 19 0.47 1 phui flute content phue wise content 19 @@ -64,15 +64,15 @@ 0.47 1 palu plate content palo touch content 17 0.47 1 kirua sand content kiroa sign content 16 0.47 1 wiroa hopeful content wirua wet content 16 +0.47 1 lonae respond content lonai width content 15 +0.47 1 thola bring content thula spring content 15 0.47 1 kori leather content kuri right content 14 0.47 1 phiro elegant content phero fern content 14 0.47 1 luwi flexible content lowi vine content 13 0.47 1 shela art content shila winter content 13 0.47 1 tinoa dye content tenoa tool content 13 -0.47 1 lonae respond content lonai width content 12 0.47 1 sheloa bloom content shiloa pure content 12 0.47 1 thiru exit content theru thick content 12 -0.47 1 thola bring content thula spring content 12 0.47 1 liru fabric content liro green content 10 0.47 1 keloe companion content keloi summer content 9 0.47 1 kiru chisel content kiro precise content 8 @@ -93,55 +93,55 @@ 0.47 1 thiru exit content thiro serene content 1 0.47 1 thorai bless content thorae facilitator content 1 0.47 1 thorai bless content thurai vibrant content 1 -0.50 1 po POT function to PST function 2316 -0.50 1 ko FOC function to PST function 2089 -0.50 1 nia ON function mia 1SG function 1992 -0.50 1 thia 2SG function shia 3SG function 1985 -0.50 1 sa HON.RESPECT function ha PROX function 768 -0.50 1 na NEC function ma NEG function 659 -0.50 1 nua COM function mua LOC function 503 -0.50 1 ta one content ka CAUS function 480 -0.50 1 ta one content pa INCH function 381 -0.50 1 ho ASSUM function so FUT function 341 -0.50 1 ko FOC function po POT function 319 +0.50 1 po POT function to PST function 2327 +0.50 1 ko FOC function to PST function 2090 +0.50 1 nia ON function mia 1SG function 2048 +0.50 1 thia 2SG function shia 3SG function 2023 +0.50 1 sa HON.RESPECT function ha PROX function 792 +0.50 1 na NEC function ma NEG function 684 +0.50 1 nua COM function mua LOC function 513 +0.50 1 ta one content ka CAUS function 482 +0.50 1 ta one content pa INCH function 382 +0.50 1 ho ASSUM function so FUT function 342 +0.50 1 ko FOC function po POT function 329 0.50 1 shola QUOT.COMP function sola DISJ function 310 -0.50 1 hola laugh content shola QUOT.COMP function 273 -0.50 1 thola bring content shola QUOT.COMP function 265 -0.50 1 ki PFV function pi POL function 253 +0.50 1 hola laugh content shola QUOT.COMP function 275 +0.50 1 thola bring content shola QUOT.COMP function 268 +0.50 1 ki PFV function pi POL function 260 0.50 1 whola invite content shola QUOT.COMP function 253 0.50 1 theo read content pheo POST function 245 -0.50 1 ki PFV function ti REP function 231 -0.50 1 shua come content sua who function 231 -0.50 1 mo CMPR function no IMP function 228 -0.50 1 ka CAUS function pa INCH function 217 +0.50 1 shua come content sua who function 234 +0.50 1 ki PFV function ti REP function 232 +0.50 1 mo CMPR function no IMP function 231 +0.50 1 ka CAUS function pa INCH function 218 0.50 1 shea peace content phea AS function 185 0.50 1 theo read content sheo THAN function 173 0.50 1 mu zero content nu ORD function 172 0.50 1 he IRR function se PASS function 169 -0.50 1 hi DIR function si IPFV function 165 -0.50 1 hea hear content phea AS function 148 -0.50 1 pi POL function ti REP function 136 +0.50 1 hi DIR function si IPFV function 167 +0.50 1 hea hear content phea AS function 149 +0.50 1 pi POL function ti REP function 142 0.50 1 wheo elder content pheo POST function 136 0.50 1 te CESS function ke INFER function 134 0.50 1 pheo POST function sheo THAN function 120 -0.50 1 thelao CONS function shelao SUMM function 112 -0.50 1 koma head content kona VOC function 95 -0.50 1 phoa do content thoa AMONG function 87 -0.50 1 hola laugh content sola DISJ function 77 +0.50 1 thelao CONS function shelao SUMM function 113 +0.50 1 koma head content kona VOC function 96 +0.50 1 phoa do content thoa AMONG function 88 +0.50 1 hola laugh content sola DISJ function 79 0.50 1 heloi generous content sheloi MANY function 75 0.50 1 seloi insightful content sheloi MANY function 74 -0.50 1 thola bring content sola DISJ function 69 +0.50 1 thola bring content sola DISJ function 72 +0.50 1 hina what function phina FEW function 64 0.50 1 wheo elder content sheo THAN function 64 -0.50 1 hina what function phina FEW function 62 0.50 1 whola invite content sola DISJ function 57 0.50 1 muo INTO function nuo um interjection 53 -0.50 1 phui flute content sui DUR function 45 +0.50 1 phui flute content sui DUR function 46 0.50 1 phue wise content thue THROUGH function 36 0.50 1 thuo prosper content whuo WITHOUT function 35 0.50 1 whuo WITHOUT function phuo phew interjection 35 0.50 1 pheno full content sheno ADD function 33 -0.50 1 thenoi falls-short content henoi ENOUGH function 32 -0.50 1 thua fair content sua who function 30 +0.50 1 thenoi falls-short content henoi ENOUGH function 33 +0.50 1 thua fair content sua who function 32 0.50 1 kua where function tua no interjection 26 0.50 1 heno satisfy content sheno ADD function 23 0.50 1 shela art content thela how function 22 @@ -150,25 +150,25 @@ 0.50 1 phei AWAY function thei BETWEEN function 16 0.50 1 whoa whole content thoa AMONG function 16 0.50 1 thei BETWEEN function hei hey interjection 13 -0.50 1 wemo plain content weno when function 10 +0.50 1 wemo plain content weno when function 11 0.50 1 phei AWAY function hei hey interjection 5 0.50 1 sheli impatient content theli EACH function 3 0.50 1 wheli ANY function theli EACH function 3 0.50 1 sheli impatient content wheli ANY function 2 -0.50 1 shelu book content phelu hold content 345 -0.50 1 sano know content whano stand content 316 +0.50 1 shelu book content phelu hold content 351 +0.50 1 sano know content whano stand content 318 0.50 1 phena kind content thena thing content 236 -0.50 1 shua come content thua fair content 225 -0.50 1 selu flow content phelu hold content 220 -0.50 1 thelu dialogue content phelu hold content 218 -0.50 1 phelu hold content helu smooth content 217 +0.50 1 selu flow content phelu hold content 226 +0.50 1 shua come content thua fair content 226 +0.50 1 thelu dialogue content phelu hold content 224 +0.50 1 phelu hold content helu smooth content 223 0.50 1 shena calm content thena thing content 213 0.50 1 sena pattern content thena thing content 205 0.50 1 thema guardian content thena thing content 205 0.50 1 wheo elder content theo read content 189 0.50 1 melu friend content nelu revere content 187 0.50 1 phao parent content shao three-group content 184 -0.50 1 shaelo brave content phaelo feel content 166 +0.50 1 shaelo brave content phaelo feel content 170 0.50 1 whalo large content thalo walk content 144 0.50 1 shelu book content selu flow content 135 0.50 1 thinu put content thimu time content 134 @@ -176,70 +176,70 @@ 0.50 1 shelu book content helu smooth content 132 0.50 1 nophi story content mophi wool content 111 0.50 1 shao three-group content hao pardon interjection 107 -0.50 1 noshi near (adj) content nophi story content 103 +0.50 1 noshi near (adj) content nophi story content 105 0.50 1 korua heart content torua year content 100 0.50 1 phulae mouth content sulae warm content 96 0.50 1 siora joy content phiora spirit content 95 0.50 1 korua heart content porua purpose content 93 -0.50 1 hea hear content shea peace content 91 +0.50 1 hea hear content shea peace content 92 0.50 1 phiro elegant content shiro tree content 89 0.50 1 philo day content whilo white content 83 0.50 1 thiro serene content shiro tree content 83 0.50 1 phewo sage content shewo true content 80 0.50 1 phao parent content hao pardon interjection 79 -0.50 1 phoa do content soa sorry interjection 75 -0.50 1 phoa do content whoa whole content 71 +0.50 1 phoa do content soa sorry interjection 76 +0.50 1 phoa do content whoa whole content 72 +0.50 1 sila community content whila hair content 70 0.50 1 teli bell content keli device content 70 -0.50 1 sila community content whila hair content 67 0.50 1 thero fire content shero night content 61 0.50 1 keru bright content teru process content 57 0.50 1 sholu complete content tholu space content 57 0.50 1 helui change content phelui word content 56 -0.50 1 shelira forest content phelira mistaken content 55 -0.50 1 sila community content shila winter content 51 +0.50 1 shelira forest content phelira mistaken content 56 +0.50 1 sila community content shila winter content 54 0.50 1 noru bowl content moru wall content 47 0.50 1 thuroa grow content shuroa shelter content 44 0.50 1 porua purpose content torua year content 43 0.50 1 shena calm content phena kind content 43 +0.50 1 phelona require content pheloma serve content 41 0.50 1 phero fern content thero fire content 41 0.50 1 thorui beginning content sorui circle content 41 -0.50 1 phelona require content pheloma serve content 40 0.50 1 kunoa knee content punoa society content 39 0.50 1 thorui beginning content shorui weary content 39 0.50 1 thelui sanctuary content phelui word content 38 +0.50 1 thola bring content hola laugh content 37 0.50 1 phero fern content shero night content 36 0.50 1 phena kind content sena pattern content 35 0.50 1 sheluo listen content theluo steward content 34 0.50 1 wemi ally content weni imagine content 33 -0.50 1 thola bring content hola laugh content 32 0.50 1 norae method content morae sense content 30 0.50 1 phoi nine-group content hoi onward interjection 30 +0.50 1 telua accurate content kelua morning content 30 0.50 1 thelomi lake content selomi weave content 29 -0.50 1 telua accurate content kelua morning content 28 0.50 1 wetha cloth content wesha lazy content 28 0.50 1 whila hair content shila winter content 28 0.50 1 kelua morning content pelua paper content 27 0.50 1 nuwi clear content muwi interior content 27 -0.50 1 seru commit content theru thick content 22 +0.50 1 seru commit content theru thick content 23 0.50 1 themui faith content shemui utter content 22 -0.50 1 whola invite content hola laugh content 20 +0.50 1 whola invite content hola laugh content 22 0.50 1 helui change content thelui sanctuary content 18 +0.50 1 seru commit content heru herb content 17 +0.50 1 seru commit content sheru slow content 17 0.50 1 heru herb content theru thick content 16 0.50 1 lima alive content lina string (instrument) content 16 -0.50 1 seru commit content heru herb content 16 -0.50 1 seru commit content sheru slow content 16 0.50 1 sheru slow content theru thick content 16 0.50 1 kiru chisel content piru trader content 15 +0.50 1 thola bring content whola invite content 15 0.50 1 sorui circle content shorui weary content 14 0.50 1 pelui cold content telui rhythm content 13 0.50 1 shalu fish content halu aww interjection 13 0.50 1 pheno full content heno satisfy content 12 +0.50 1 seru commit content pheru endure content 12 0.50 1 shena calm content sena pattern content 12 -0.50 1 thola bring content whola invite content 12 0.50 1 nea aha interjection mea thanks interjection 11 0.50 1 nuko black content muko careless content 11 0.50 1 pheru endure content theru thick content 11 -0.50 1 seru commit content pheru endure content 11 0.50 1 thiru exit content siru marker content 11 0.50 1 heru herb content sheru slow content 10 0.50 1 hiru intuit content siru marker content 10 diff --git a/kia.md b/kia.md index ccb0b3a1..3945b008 100644 --- a/kia.md +++ b/kia.md @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Solarpunk keeps the future in view. Buddhist mindfulness and Right Speech contri The lexicon holds more than one thousand words, each checked against Phi's sound and structural rules. The primer teaches through one household; the manual gives the machinery room to spread out. -The text shelf uses close translation and Phi's preferred transmutation. *The North Wind and the Sun* appears in both forms, with a comparison of what changes. The shelf also holds the Metta Sutta, the Ring Verse refusal, and the opening chapters of *News from Nowhere*. +The text shelf uses close translation, Phi's preferred transmutation for inherited material, and one work written directly in Phi. *The North Wind and the Sun* appears as both a translation and a transmutation, with a comparison of what changes. The shelf also holds the Metta Sutta, the Ring Verse refusal, an original dialogue about care and coercion, and the opening chapters of *News from Nowhere*. ## Seven doors @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The manual waits behind **Verify**. It holds the full sound system and grammar, **Consider** leads to the Phi book, which asks why the language works this way and tests its claims against linguistic evidence. -**Read** opens the text shelf, where close translations sit beside Phi's preferred transmutations. +**Read** opens the text shelf, where close translations sit beside Phi's preferred transmutations and one original dialogue lets Phi lead its English reading. For longer lessons, exercises, and answers, **Practice** opens the pamphlets. diff --git a/manual/appendices/appendix_a_glossary.md b/manual/appendices/appendix_a_glossary.md index e3c02fea..90e73880 100644 --- a/manual/appendices/appendix_a_glossary.md +++ b/manual/appendices/appendix_a_glossary.md @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ The technical vocabulary used in this manual, in plain language, with the Phi fe **optative**: The mood of wishes and blessings ("may all beings be well"). Phi's `su`, the workhorse of the Metta Sutta. +**original composition**: A work composed first in Phi rather than inherited from another source. English supplies a close reading, while a proposition record tracks the argument and its unanswered questions. + **particle**: A short, invariant grammatical word. In Phi, always a single CV syllable, assigned to one of three slots: sentence-frame (Slot 0), verb-phrase (Slot 1), word-level (Slot 2). **phonotactics**: The rules for how sounds may combine. Phi uses open (C)CV syllables, consonant-initial and vowel-final words, no three-vowel runs, no repeated syllable with an onset within a word, and an absolute three-syllable lexical ceiling. diff --git a/manual/appendices/appendix_c_resources.md b/manual/appendices/appendix_c_resources.md index 22cd3bb7..04770be8 100644 --- a/manual/appendices/appendix_c_resources.md +++ b/manual/appendices/appendix_c_resources.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The manual is the teaching path; these are the working documents behind it. | `documents/reference/compounds.md` | The canonized compound idioms and why each stays compositional | | `documents/design/modifier_first_philosophy.md` | The organizing principle, argued in full | | `documents/design/psychological_violence_of_measurement.md` | Why the numbers are the way they are | -| [`texts/`](https://github.com/dcellison/phi/tree/main/texts) | The literary shelf: the Metta Sutta and Solarpunk Manifesto translations, seven paired works, three further transmutations, and *News from Nowhere* in its own book directory | +| [`texts/`](https://github.com/dcellison/phi/tree/main/texts) | The literary shelf: nine close translations, eleven transmutations, one original Phi dialogue, and *News from Nowhere* in its own book directory | | `pamphlets/` | Focused companions to the manual, with extended teaching, exercises, and answer keys | | `manual/part7_reference/` | The one-page grammar and the generated lexicon listings | | `scripts/validate_examples.py` | The validator; also `neighbors ` before coining | diff --git a/manual/part1_first_light/ch01_why_new_language/03_what_phi_attempts.md b/manual/part1_first_light/ch01_why_new_language/03_what_phi_attempts.md index 3ed00c73..58b857a2 100644 --- a/manual/part1_first_light/ch01_why_new_language/03_what_phi_attempts.md +++ b/manual/part1_first_light/ch01_why_new_language/03_what_phi_attempts.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Phi's answer is concrete. Its modifier-first grammar lets participants and relat The language is also large enough to live in, not merely to sample. Its lexicon holds more than a thousand entries with definitions, articulatory guidance, and validated examples, and its literary shelf reaches from the Metta Sutta and Aesop's *North Wind and the Sun* to the whole of *The Velveteen Rabbit*. That shelf is where this book is taking you. By its end you will be able to greet a friend at the door, tell the time of day by the sky, ask how someone knows what they claim, and read a story about a toy becoming real in words you understand from the inside. -Phi carries source texts in two ways. A close translation protects the source's claims while finding natural Phi grammar. A *transmutation* allows Phi's five pillars to reshape the source, then records what changed and why. In the paired *North Wind and the Sun*, the translation preserves the contest while the transmutation concludes `keloa haolu nela kawhera pholeni thola`, "rough speech and coercion bring departure." Part VI teaches transmutation; Part VII maps both methods across the text shelf. +Phi carries source texts in two ways. A close translation protects the source's claims while finding natural Phi grammar. A *transmutation* allows Phi's five pillars to reshape the source, then records what changed and why. In the paired *North Wind and the Sun*, the translation preserves the contest while the transmutation concludes `keloa haolu nela kawhera pholeni thola`, "rough speech and coercion bring departure." In original work, Phi comes first; English follows as a close reading. Part VI teaches transmutation; Part VII maps all three methods across the text shelf. ### A glimpse of the five pillars diff --git a/manual/part7_reference/sample_texts.md b/manual/part7_reference/sample_texts.md index 6f94682a..d50cbf87 100644 --- a/manual/part7_reference/sample_texts.md +++ b/manual/part7_reference/sample_texts.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Complete, validated Phi for reading practice, from two-line exchanges to whole texts. Every word here exists in the lexicon; every construction is taught in Parts IV and V. -For original philosophical dialogues that test disagreement, revision, evidence, resource tradeoffs, and separately presented source terminology, see `documents/evaluation/philosophical_test_corpus.md`. It is a regression corpus rather than literature: its unresolved questions are part of its purpose. +For a sustained original Phi dialogue, read `texts/care_and_coercion.md`. Its two speakers test danger, refusal, consent, evidence, and authority without arriving at a complete conclusion. The shorter dialogues in `documents/evaluation/philosophical_test_corpus.md` are regression cases rather than literature: their unresolved questions are part of their purpose. ## Dialogues @@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ The Metta Sutta's final verse predicts that the practitioner will never return t The five Tao chapters bring the comparison into a workshop. One version describes the wheel and follows a tree cutter to the broad trunk; the other stays with an empty vessel until a great wind arrives. -A **translation** keeps the source's claims and distinctions, along with its images and force, while letting Phi grammar do its own work. A **transmutation** may recast the source in Phi's own terms. Its citations and gap log make the distance visible. Both practices can compose a missing term or coin a word; the difference is what each owes the source. +A **translation** keeps the source's claims and distinctions, along with its images and force, while letting Phi grammar do its own work. A **transmutation** may recast the source in Phi's own terms. Its citations and gap log make the distance visible. An **original** takes Phi as its source; the English is a close reading rather than a prior text waiting to be rendered. All three methods can compose a missing term or coin a word. What changes is the work each owes to a source, or to the propositions it makes on its own. -The complete texts live in `texts/`. Each short work has one file; a longer book has its own directory, where the chapters and their shared source stay together. Every rendering presents Phi beside glosses, back-translations, source citations where publication permits them, and a record of the choices made. Nine are the manual's touchstones. +The complete texts live in `texts/`. Each short work has one file; a longer book has its own directory, where the chapters and their shared source stay together. Translations and transmutations place source wording beneath their Phi, glosses, and back-translations where publication permits it. Original work uses three-line blocks because Phi is the source, then records its propositions and lexical pressure separately. Ten are the manual's touchstones. ***lothea thole*** (The Practice of Love) is a translation of the Karaniya Metta Sutta: ten verses of loving-kindness carried almost entirely by the optative `su`. Its refrain is the language in one line: @@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ OPT UNIV creature joy heart hold. ***sileta kenua wireo moenu lo sherewa*** (Claims of a Solar-Energy Future Culture) translates *A Solarpunk Manifesto* across all five opening paragraphs, 22 propositions, and both nested lists. Political labels such as post-capitalism and decolonialism, identity categories, and named aesthetic references stay exact in the licensed English source; the Phi lines state the relations the current lexicon can defend. The long analytic phrases show both reach and strain in a text written squarely for solarpunk readers. +***theama weno kawhera kelu*** (When Care Becomes Coercion) is the shelf's first original Phi work. Two friends sit with a hot room, a refusal to leave, and a danger neither can dismiss. Their dialogue separates evidence from entailment, persuasion from coercion, and care from authority. Conditional consent settles what the friends may do this afternoon; the harder case, when no prior answer can speak, still waits. + ***nitho howeli nela sileta*** (The North Wind and the Sun) pairs a close translation with a transmutation of Aesop's familiar linguistic benchmark. The translation uses past-tense scene chains and direct removal in a relative clause; base `sharemi` (persuade) lets Aesop's moral stay whole. The transmutation has no scoreboard: `moli nela phena haolu welao lureko thola`, gentleness and kind speech bring good fruit; `keloa haolu nela kawhera pholeni thola`, rough speech and coercion bring departure. A comparison after both renderings follows the change through Phi's five pillars. ***mophira nela lo kalora*** (The Sheep and the Horses) begins from a controlled English translation of Schleicher's 1868 German. The close rendering preserves the constricted heart, the horses' knowledge, the master claim, and both descriptions of the sheep's flight. The transmutation names coercion and exploitation, then declines to rank the unlike burdens: diff --git a/project/development_protocol.md b/project/development_protocol.md index 4b6ab2d7..a046b07f 100644 --- a/project/development_protocol.md +++ b/project/development_protocol.md @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Install the pinned validation dependency with `python3 -m pip install --requirem - Validator evidence and ledgers → `/documents/validation/` - Python scripts → `/scripts/` - Manual content → `/manual/` -- Literary translations and transmutations → `/texts/` +- Literary translations, transmutations, and original Phi compositions → `/texts/` - Focused deep-dives → `/pamphlets/` - Project operations and release records → `/project/` - Historical material → `/archive/` (never a reference for current canon) diff --git a/project/handoff/current_state.md b/project/handoff/current_state.md index b1dd253a..13449848 100644 --- a/project/handoff/current_state.md +++ b/project/handoff/current_state.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This snapshot was first assembled after pull request #418 merged on 17 July 2026 ## Active execution sequence -SEM-09D is complete, and so is PED-08: the book is published whole, from the cold open through the close and its consolidated bibliography, with the planning treatment archived at `archive/book_treatment.md`. No work package is commissioned. The book's title remains The Phi Book for now by the maintainer's ruling, the bibliography's citation style is uniform, and the whole-book revision read is complete; further revision waits on the maintainer's own reading of the finished book. +SEM-09D is complete, and so is PED-08: the book is published whole, from the cold open through the close and its consolidated bibliography, with the planning treatment archived at `archive/book_treatment.md`. Work package C is complete at its stated exit criterion through `texts/care_and_coercion.md`, the shelf's first sustained original Phi composition; the planned essay set and unscripted evidence remain open. No further work package is commissioned. The book's title remains The Phi Book for now by the maintainer's ruling, the bibliography's citation style is uniform, and the whole-book revision read is complete; further revision waits on the maintainer's own reading of the finished book. D044 completed the base-first boundary, and D045 through D052 completed all eight learning paths in their historical order. The full migration has one editorial judgement and voice. SEM-09D began with Schleicher's fable. That pilot preserved every Phi line after checking later base roots and optional terms, while D053 repaired `kawhera` and `pilora` after their target prose proved narrower than their validated animal uses. The second pass replaced three older circumlocutions in *The North Wind and the Sun* with `mesatu` (try), `komeri` (forehead), and `phesari` (flee) in both the translation and transmutation. The third replaced four detours in the Metta Sutta with `sheraki` (search), `tupeka` (burden), `rinu` (want), and `huwa` (weak). The fourth leaves both UDHR Article 1 renderings intact and identifies `remo` as thinking rather than a dedicated rational faculty. The fifth repairs Babel's physical joining, the tower's top, the builders' wish for renown, imagined action, and punitive scattering without adding a root. The sixth restores reverence, perception, change, and verse in the Heart Sutra. It also removes a quantitative misuse of `thenoi` and keeps physical `whalo` out of the English "great" homonym. The seventh brings `phomila`, `lioru`, `lima`, and `mesatu` into *The Prophet, On Children*. The eighth gives the Tao Te Ching translation `kowanu`, `monaki`, and direct `kethua`; both renderings distinguish `lioru`, life, and state completed withering through `ki kureno`. The ninth revises seventeen Solarpunk units, uses all eight modules, and removes technical vocabulary from general solutions, human ability, social power, and ordinary living. The tenth replaces unadorned `mueli` with simple `siloma` in *The Little Prince* and uses perfective `ki` for the bond whose result still holds. The eleventh preserves the Ring Verse refusal's 12 base and function forms while bringing its account of dominion into line with the completed Commons and Systems distinctions. The twelfth changes 46 units in *The Velveteen Rabbit*, separates search from finding and wear from age, and brings exact household and bodily words into the nursery without changing Williams's source witness. The thirteenth changes 29 units in *News from Nowhere* chapter 1, separates authority from guidance and representation from thought, and brings direct words for coercion, winter, wear, waking, and observation into Morris's first night without changing his source witness. The fourteenth now changes 57 units in chapter 2, adds direct tide and service to its earlier repairs, and preserves every Morris line. The fifteenth changes 46 units in chapter 3, gives the house and breakfast direct household language, gives the weaver his craft terms, and preserves all 245 Morris lines. The drafted-book pass preserves thirteen of fifteen fenced examples, revises two in the cold open, corrects the account of `wia` and transmutation, and aligns the schema discussion with the completed lexicon contract. The first teaching pass reviews all nine Part I files, corrects determinist and universal claims, replaces obsolete sound lore with current articulation, and rebuilds the beginner exchange without adding a root or module term. The second reviews all nineteen Part II files, preserves the two current sound essays, and repairs the remaining chapters' cultural, phonesthetic, grammatical, social, and learning claims without adding a root or module term. @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ All eight profiles already have canonical JSON membership, a generated module in ## Corpus state -The literary shelf has completed its full review against the current lexicon. It contains nine close translations and eleven transmutations; seven works have both. *News from Nowhere* is one 32-chapter work with the first three chapters transmuted and reviewed. The current review record is [`documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md`](../../documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md). The compound registry holds 76 rows at word-pair and word-triple scale by the maintainer's ruling of 23 July 2026: its one four-word entry overreached from compound toward canonized phrase, so `lothea korua`, love-heart, is registered in its place and `mawha norui` composes freely before it in the Metta Sutta's lines. +The literary shelf has completed its full inherited-text review against the current lexicon. It contains nine close translations, eleven transmutations, and one original Phi work; seven source works use both methods. *News from Nowhere* is one 32-chapter work with the first three chapters transmuted and reviewed. The current inherited-text review record is [`documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md`](../../documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md), while the original dialogue carries its proposition and vocabulary-pressure records in the work itself. The compound registry holds 76 rows at word-pair and word-triple scale by the maintainer's ruling of 23 July 2026: its one four-word entry overreached from compound toward canonized phrase, so `lothea korua`, love-heart, is registered in its place and `mawha norui` composes freely before it in the Metta Sutta's lines. SEM-09D is complete. Fifteen literary passes finished the shelf, and all three drafted *News from Nowhere* chapters are among them. All seven manual parts, all twenty-seven primer files, and the nine pamphlets then on the shelf are reviewed without a lexical gap, and the current-documents sweep closed with the evaluation corpus. Parts IV and VI each use one explicitly labelled optional term with a base alternative; Part VII teaches module words only inside their named learning paths, while the general primer and every pamphlet except source-material use no module terms; the source-material pamphlet demonstrates the module choice it teaches. A Phi passage changes only when the current form is more faithful or natural there. A transparent composition stays when its parts still teach or express the thought better, and every changed sentence and dependency receives validation. @@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ The shelf's method distinction remains settled: - A translation is answerable to every source proposition, relation, and image as closely as Phi permits. - A transmutation may change the source under Phi's five pillars, but every departure must be deliberate, visible in the back-translation, and recorded honestly. -- Phi prefers transmutation as its own literary practice. Close translations show what the language can carry without implying that source fidelity is the preferred creative method. +- In an original, Phi is the source. English follows as a close reading, and the proposition record states what the work argues, revises, and leaves open. +- Phi prefers transmutation for inherited material. Close translations show what the language can carry, while original work lets the language begin without a prior source. ## Book state diff --git a/project/handoff/repository_workflow.md b/project/handoff/repository_workflow.md index b305eafc..b6db779a 100644 --- a/project/handoff/repository_workflow.md +++ b/project/handoff/repository_workflow.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Phi is maintained as repository source, generated views, and machine checks. A r | `documents/validation/` | Committed baselines and migration evidence. | | `manual/` | Complete teaching reference and generated Part VII views. | | `primer/` | Graded reader and exercises. | -| `texts/` | Translation and transmutation shelf, catalogued for the site. | +| `texts/` | Translation, transmutation, and original Phi shelf, catalogued for the site. | | `pamphlets/` | Focused teaching companions, also catalogued. | | `book/` | General-reader book treatment and drafted chapters. | | `tengwar/` | Current Tengwar specification, renderer outlines, and source font. | @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Several surfaces cover neighbouring ground, but they do different work. Preserve | `primer/` | A graded first course built around use and exercises. | | `manual/` | The complete teaching and reference authority beneath canon and the lexicon. Generated Part VII views belong here. | | `pamphlets/` | Focused companions for one practice or feature. They are neither a miscellaneous document drawer nor the literary shelf. | -| `texts/` | Phi literature, with every work labelled as translation or transmutation and every source witness preserved. | +| `texts/` | Phi literature, with every work labelled as translation, transmutation, or original and every applicable source witness preserved. | | `book/` | Narrative nonfiction about Phi for a general reader, complete and published from cold open to close with a consolidated bibliography; its warmer chapter voice remains the register for revision, and the planning treatment is archived. | ## Worktree discipline diff --git a/project/roadmap.md b/project/roadmap.md index d2be0ae6..ea04ddb9 100644 --- a/project/roadmap.md +++ b/project/roadmap.md @@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ An item is not **DONE** merely because a protocol, prompt, or script exists. A l | Source-material interoperability | **DONE** | Unassimilated source material remains outside Phi passages; active teaching and tooling no longer parse guest or exact frames. | | Productive proper names | **DONE** | `ne` licenses validated Phi-form onyms of two, three, or four syllables. | | Three-syllable lexical ceiling | **DONE** | All 112 inherited four-syllable entries have replacements, and the validator permits no lexical exception. | -| Philosophical capability | **PARTIAL** | Matrix, repair conventions, and fifteen test dialogues exist; several operations remain gaps. | +| Philosophical capability | **PARTIAL** | Matrix, repair conventions, fifteen test dialogues, and one sustained literary dialogue exist; several operations remain gaps. | | Solo evaluation | **READY** | Structural checks are complete; choice, paraphrase, transformation, and repair trials remain available after the breaking migration. | | Speech and listening evidence | **READY** | Audit tooling and protocols exist; recordings and perception results do not. | | Evidence-led semantic growth | **PARTIAL** | All eight active profiles have completed first vocabulary passes, every recovered content-vocabulary question has an explicit decision, and all 1,275 lexicon entries follow the target prose contract. The literary shelf and drafted Phi book are current; the remaining corpus retrofit covers teaching and project documents. | | Practice and domain profiles | **DONE** | Eight active profiles are established vocabulary modules with speaker chapters, and further possibilities remain recorded separately. | -| Original Phi corpus | **PARTIAL** | Fifteen philosophical dialogues exist, and the literary shelf has completed its after-state review. Scenarios, dialogues, and teaching texts remain; sustained essays and spontaneous transcripts do not yet exist. | +| Original Phi corpus | **PARTIAL** | Fifteen regression dialogues and one sustained original literary dialogue exist. The planned essay set and spontaneous transcripts do not yet exist. | | Learner and community evidence | **EVIDENCE** | Materials exist, but there is no recorded outside learner or recurring speaker evidence. | | Public governance and print publication | **DEFERRED** | Reconsider after recurring use and stable evidence-led development. | @@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ An item is not **DONE** merely because a protocol, prompt, or script exists. A l | PHL-01A | **DONE** | Establish Philosophical Reasoning as Phi's first optional vocabulary module. | Profile, 18 complete module entries, four base words established with the pass, generated module index, speaker-facing Part VII chapter, regression corpus, and six authored transformations | Revise the vocabulary through actual writing and discussion when a compound or coined term feels inadequate. | | PHL-02 | **DONE** | Fifteen original regression dialogues covering ecological tradeoff, repair/replace, evidential revision, external-language critique, definition under pressure, two measurement/systems challenges, bodily-care decision-making, two access cases, commons allocation, shared-infrastructure accountability, two ecological-systems challenges, and work-sharing during a craft repair. | `documents/evaluation/philosophical_test_corpus.md` | Existing dialogues remain validated and revisable. | | PHL-03 | **PARTIAL** | Repair conventions for clarification, error, withdrawal, disagreement, turn handoff, waiting, consent, refusal, and source requests. | `documents/grammar/philosophical_conversation.md` | Move conventions to demonstrated only after unscripted use succeeds repeatedly. | -| PHL-04 | **PARTIAL** | Demonstrate definition, truth, evidence, conditionals, consequence, example, summary, agreement, agency, and revision in connected text. | Demonstrated rows in the capability matrix | Add at least one independent original passage per operation, not merely a reference example. | -| PHL-05 | **PARTIAL** | Express cause versus reason, retraction, competing goods, responsibility, uncertainty, and suspended judgment. | Base vocabulary supplies `remotha` reason; Philosophical Reasoning adds `whamoi`, `norethi`, `soneho`, and `manawi`; Commons adds `naseru` obligation and `lothoni` accountability; the corpus provides material for use | Write original passages using the vocabulary and revise any term or composition that feels unclear or unnatural. | +| PHL-04 | **PARTIAL** | Demonstrate definition, truth, evidence, conditionals, consequence, example, summary, agreement, agency, and revision in connected text. | Demonstrated rows in the capability matrix; `texts/care_and_coercion.md` independently uses evidence, conditionals, consequence, agreement, and revision | Add at least one independent original passage for the remaining operations, not merely a reference example. | +| PHL-05 | **PARTIAL** | Express cause versus reason, retraction, competing goods, responsibility, uncertainty, and suspended judgment. | Base and module vocabulary supply the distinctions; `texts/care_and_coercion.md` uses reason, retraction, a safety-and-freedom tradeoff, doubt, and an unresolved conclusion in connected Phi | Use responsibility and further forms of uncertainty in original work, and revise any term or composition that feels unclear or unnatural. | | PHL-06 | **PARTIAL** | Express logical validity, contradiction, consistency, counterexample, systems, feedback, and emergence. | Philosophical Reasoning supplies the logical vocabulary; Systems and Shared Infrastructure supplies system, state, dependency, control, feedback, feedforward, emergence, correlation, and hypothesis terminology | Use the terms in connected philosophical and systems writing, then revise any relation that proves unclear or unnatural. | | PHL-07 | **READY** | Distinguish understanding, agreement, endorsement, and willingness to continue. | Repair conventions | Complete unscripted dialogues whose successful ending includes disagreement or suspension. | | PHL-08 | **EVIDENCE** | Determine whether other speakers recover intended propositions and distinctions. | No outside result yet | Use blind paraphrase and dialogue tasks with consenting readers; report losses without blaming learners. | @@ -203,10 +203,10 @@ This checklist protects implementation quality. It does not require external app | ID | Status | Deliverable | Evidence | Completion or next criterion | |---|---|---|---|---| -| COR-01 | **DONE** | A validated shelf of nine close translations, eleven transmuted works, and extensive teaching examples; seven works appear in both forms. | `texts/`; manual; primer | Keep every rendering labeled by method and continue to distinguish deliberate transmutation choices from Phi's general expressive capacity. | +| COR-01 | **DONE** | A validated shelf of nine close translations, eleven transmuted works, one original Phi work, and extensive teaching examples; seven source works pair the two methods. | `texts/`; manual; primer | Keep every work labeled by method and continue to distinguish source fidelity, deliberate transmutation, and original Phi composition. | | COR-02 | **DONE** | Fifteen original philosophical regression dialogues. | `documents/evaluation/philosophical_test_corpus.md` | Preserve as baseline tests rather than polished doctrine. | | COR-03 | **READY** | Sustained original philosophical essays in Phi. | Depends on PHL-05/06 scenario selection | Write at least three essays with claims, objections, revision, and unresolved tension; maintain proposition and gap logs. | -| COR-04 | **READY** | Dialogue set whose successful outcome is disagreement, suspension, or revised framing rather than consensus. | Repair conventions | Add validated dialogues and re-run repair tests. | +| COR-04 | **PARTIAL** | Dialogue set whose successful outcome is disagreement, suspension, or revised framing rather than consensus. | `texts/care_and_coercion.md` ends with a bounded practical agreement and an unresolved general question | Add dialogues on unrelated questions and keep unscripted evidence separate. | | COR-05 | **EVIDENCE** | Transcripts or reconstructions of spontaneous Phi conversation. | No spontaneous corpus yet | With consent, preserve normalized text and an error/repair log; do not publish raw voice by default. | | COR-06 | **PARTIAL** | Corpus-attestation data for phonetic and lexical decisions. | Phonetic audit counts documentation examples | Separate authored Phi usage from mentions in explanation as the corpus grows. | | PED-01 | **DONE** | Complete primer, reference manual, text shelf, pamphlet shelf, quick reference, and generated explorer. | `primer/`; `manual/`; `texts/`; `pamphlets/`; `build/site/` output | Keep generated outputs synchronized. | @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ This phase is adjacent to the linguistic improvement plan and follows the order ## Current execution sequence -The three-syllable lexical migration, literary-shelf review, recovered vocabulary decisions, and all base and module prose migrations are complete. Fifteen contextual literary passes complete the active shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, all seven manual parts, the primer, and all nine pamphlets have received teaching-corpus passes, and the current-documents sweep is complete. SEM-09 and SEM-09D are done, and PED-08 is complete: the Phi book is published whole, from the cold open through the close and its consolidated bibliography. A transparent composition stays when it remains better Phi. +The three-syllable lexical migration, literary-shelf review, recovered vocabulary decisions, and all base and module prose migrations are complete. Fifteen contextual literary passes complete the inherited shelf; all seven manual parts, the primer, and all nine pamphlets have received teaching-corpus passes; the current-documents sweep is complete; and the Phi book is published whole. Work package C is complete at its stated exit criterion: `texts/care_and_coercion.md` is the shelf's first sustained original composition. The planned essay set and unscripted conversation evidence remain open. No further work package is commissioned. ### Completed work package 0: Three-syllable lexical migration @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ All 112 replacements preserve the vocabulary schema and active uses under forms **Exit criterion:** met. The planning treatment is archived at `archive/book_treatment.md`, and a chapter reopens only for revision as the whole is read together. -### Work package C: Original Philosophical Reasoning use +### Completed work package C: Original Philosophical Reasoning use **Roadmap items:** PHL-04 through PHL-07, COR-03, COR-04. @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ All 112 replacements preserve the vocabulary schema and active uses under forms 3. Include an objection, a response, revision or clarified scope, and either an unresolved tension or a reasoned conclusion. 4. Revise any word, definition, compound, or example that feels awkward in actual use. -**Exit criterion:** at least one original connected work uses the module naturally and records any vocabulary changes it prompted. +**Exit criterion:** met by `texts/care_and_coercion.md`. The dialogue uses the Philosophical Reasoning, Commons, Medical, and Household learning paths where their distinctions are useful, records its proposition structure and vocabulary pressure, and prompts no lexical change. COR-03 and the wider COR-04 dialogue set remain active roadmap items rather than conditions on this first connected work. ### Work package D: Optional reading and repair practice diff --git a/scripts/build_site.py b/scripts/build_site.py index 94b418bb..ad0cff9e 100644 --- a/scripts/build_site.py +++ b/scripts/build_site.py @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ def book_page(body, title, footer_nav=""): (BOOK_OUT / "index.html").write_text(book_page(book_readme, "contents")) print(f"wrote build/site/book/: {len(book_chapters)} chapters + contents") -# ---- the texts: translated and transmuted literature rendered to build/site/texts/ ---- +# ---- the texts: translated, transmuted, and original literature rendered to build/site/texts/ ---- import tengwar PHI_WORDS = {e["word"] for e in entries} @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ def texts_page(body, title, depth=1, footer_nav=None): - + Phi texts — {title} @@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ def texts_page(body, title, depth=1, footer_nav=None): {footer_nav}
-

Each rendering identifies itself as a translation or a transmutation. The source files live in the repository, and the site renders them at build time. +

Each work identifies itself as a translation, transmutation, or original Phi composition. Source witnesses, where a work has one, live with the texts in the repository. The site renders them at build time. The colophon records how Phi is made.

@@ -738,9 +738,10 @@ def texts_page(body, title, depth=1, footer_nav=None): ) toc = ["

The texts

", - "

The Metta Sutta contains all ten verses of its source. The North Wind, Schleicher, and Article 1 pages put a close translation before a transmutation. Babel, the Heart Sutra, and five Tao chapters apply the same order to longer pieces. On Children pairs one teaching within The Prophet's three-part page. Each paired text then shows where the methods part.

", + "

The Metta Sutta contains all ten verses of its source. The North Wind, Schleicher, and Article 1 pages put a close translation before a transmutation. Babel, the Heart Sutra, and five Tao chapters apply the same order to longer pieces. On Children pairs one teaching within The Prophet's three-part page. The shelf's first original work begins in a hot room, where care meets a refusal and the argument has to remain with both.

", "

A close translation answers to the source's claims and distinctions in natural Phi. Its purpose here is practical: to show that Phi can handle any source on its own terms and produce a close analogue, even when Phi would tell it differently. Every rendering says what it owes the source.

", - "

Transmutation is Phi's preferred method because it gives the source room to change as Phi understands it. The five pillars and Phi's own habits of thought shape the result, while the source stays in view. This is how transmutation preserves the heart of Phi. Seven works put both methods side by side so a reader can see what changed and why.

"] + "

Transmutation is Phi's preferred method for inherited material because it gives the source room to change as Phi understands it. The five pillars and Phi's own habits of thought shape the result, while the source stays in view. Seven works put translation and transmutation side by side so a reader can see what changed and why.

", + "

Original work puts Phi first. English follows closely, and a proposition record tracks challenges, revisions, and questions left open. The block needs no fourth source line.

"] for work in TEXTS: stem = Path(work["path"]).stem toc.append(f'

{work["title"]}

{work["method"]}

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') diff --git a/scripts/content_catalogues.py b/scripts/content_catalogues.py index cae741fd..15459441 100644 --- a/scripts/content_catalogues.py +++ b/scripts/content_catalogues.py @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ TEXT_METHODS = { + "Original", "Translation", "Transmutation", "Translation + transmutation", diff --git a/short_road.md b/short_road.md index 28e07eeb..4fe7f38d 100644 --- a/short_road.md +++ b/short_road.md @@ -142,12 +142,14 @@ Two conversion rules widen the vocabulary without changing a word's shape. A ver A content-word name retains its lexical association. A new onym can identify a person, place, work, or other referent without acquiring a shared dictionary gloss. In either case, Phi says aloud that the next form is a name. -## Two ways through a text +## Three ways through a text -The shelf distinguishes translation from transmutation. A close translation remains answerable to the source's claims and distinctions while using Phi grammar. A transmutation permits the work to change under Phi's five pillars. Phi prefers transmutation, but paired renderings show both the language's reach and the consequences of its values. +The shelf distinguishes translation from transmutation when another work supplies the source. A close translation remains answerable to the source's claims and distinctions while using Phi grammar. A transmutation permits the work to change under Phi's five pillars. Phi prefers transmutation for inherited material, but paired renderings show both the language's reach and the consequences of its values. *The North Wind and the Sun* gives the clearest comparison: its translation preserves the contest, while its transmutation asks what remains after coercion stops being the lesson. Article 1, Babel, and the Heart Sutra also stand in pairs. The Metta Sutta and *A Solarpunk Manifesto* are close translations; the Ring Verse refusal and the opening chapters of *News from Nowhere* use transmutation alone. The shelf catalogue holds the rest. +***theama weno kawhera kelu*** (*When Care Becomes Coercion*) takes the other direction. Phi supplies the dialogue, and English reads it afterward. Two friends reach a practical boundary without solving the whole argument. The open window contributes less. + ## Where the choices come from Phi names five pillars rather than presenting its choices as neutral. The sky stations and walking-distance measure draw on pre-industrial wisdom, while the moneyless Morris scene looks towards solarpunk. diff --git a/texts/README.md b/texts/README.md index d7e80df5..668ceb9c 100644 --- a/texts/README.md +++ b/texts/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # The texts -This shelf holds Phi's translations and transmutations. A translation stays answerable to the source's claims and distinctions. A transmutation lets the same source change under Phi's five pillars and habits of thought. Phi prefers transmutation, while paired renderings keep the close analogue beside the Phi-shaped work so a reader can see what changed. +This shelf holds translations, transmutations, and original Phi work. A translation stays answerable to the source's claims and distinctions. A transmutation lets the same source change under Phi's five pillars and habits of thought. In an original, Phi comes first and the English follows instead of governing it. Phi prefers transmutation when it works from inherited material, while paired renderings keep the close analogue beside the Phi-shaped work so a reader can see what changed. Short works each have one Markdown file. A book gets its own directory, where its chapter sequence and shared source witness stay together. The `sources/` directory holds source witnesses for the remaining works. @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Short works each have one Markdown file. A book gets its own directory, where it |---|---|---|---| | The Metta Sutta | Translation | All ten verses in Fausböll's English. | [Read](metta_sutta.md) | | A Solarpunk Manifesto | Translation | Five opening paragraphs and all 22 propositions. | [Read](solarpunk_manifesto.md) | +| When care becomes coercion | Original | A sustained dialogue that ends with a bounded agreement and an unresolved general question. | [Read](care_and_coercion.md) | | The North Wind and the Sun | Translation + transmutation | The complete fable in two renderings, followed by their comparison. | [Read](north_wind_and_sun.md) | | Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 | Translation + transmutation | Both sentences in two renderings, followed by their comparison. | [Read](human_rights_article_one.md) | | The Babel text | Translation + transmutation | Genesis 11:1-9 in two renderings. | [Read](babel_text.md) | diff --git a/texts/care_and_coercion.md b/texts/care_and_coercion.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2b127689 --- /dev/null +++ b/texts/care_and_coercion.md @@ -0,0 +1,200 @@ +# theama weno kawhera kelu: When care becomes coercion + +On a hot afternoon, sanuwe brings water to telari's home and finds an argument already waiting. telari feels dizzy, hears the proposal, and refuses to leave. A cooler community room is nearby. + +This is an original Phi dialogue. Phi is the source text, and the English lines follow it as close readings. `T` shortens `ne telari`; `S` shortens `ne sanuwe`. They are friends. sanuwe arrives with water, not a title. + +## The dialogue + +``` +sui sukaro lorui ne sanuwe mua ne telari womu kamo. ne sanuwe phialu thola. +DUR hot afternoon NAME sanuwe LOC NAME telari home arrive. NAME sanuwe water bring. +(During a hot afternoon, sanuwe arrives at telari's home. sanuwe brings water.) + +ne telari mua tholupi meilo. tholupi haowu sukaro nai. siwe mua ne telari menoa nai. +NAME telari LOC room sit. room air hot be. sweat LOC NAME telari face be. +(telari sits in the room. The room's air is hot. Sweat is on telari's face.) + +S: kona ne telari. thia hina phaelo. +VOC NAME telari. 2SG what feel. +(telari, what do you feel?) + +T: mia wiloru phaelo. mia kishu nai. mia ki phialu milau. +1SG dizziness feel. 1SG thirsty be. 1SG PFV water drink. +(I feel dizziness. I am thirsty. I have drunk water.) + +S: mia mena thia wiloru phaelo meno thekao. mia thia siwe hi nila. ha sukaro howenu pemaru nai. +1SG DECL.COMP 2SG dizziness feel DECL.COMP.CLOSE acknowledge. 1SG 2SG sweat DIR see. PROX hot weather hazard be. +(I acknowledge that you feel dizziness. I directly see your sweat. This hot weather is a hazard.) + +S: pi wa thia nua mia kau neri sila tholupi po wepu. +POL Q 2SG COM 1SG ALL cool community room POT go. +(Could you go with me to the cool community room?) + +T: mia ha wepu ma lesawi. mia mua womu manolu rinu. +1SG PROX go NEG consent. 1SG LOC home stay want. +(I do not consent to this going. I want to stay home.) + +S: mia thia naweri thekao. whekai mia mena thia mua ha womu shurano ma nai meno nohero. +1SG 2SG refuse acknowledge. CONTR 1SG DECL.COMP 2SG LOC PROX home safe NEG be DECL.COMP.CLOSE believe. +(I acknowledge your refusal. However, I believe that you are not safe in this home.) + +T: mia thia sherewa shelomu. whekai mia ma nawo. mia ha wepu ma lesawi. +1SG 2SG claim understand. CONTR 1SG NEG agree. 1SG PROX go NEG consent. +(I understand your claim. However, I do not agree. I do not consent to this going.) + +S: mia thia theama. lila thia shurano nai mia thia sharemi. +1SG 2SG care. PURP 2SG safe be 1SG 2SG persuade. +(I care for you. I try to persuade you so that you are safe.) + +T: sharemi naweri shoeka phae. kawhera lo phirae shoeka tapu. wa thia wei mia lo phirae shoeka phae. +persuade refuse route open. coerce PL different route close. Q 2SG DAT 1SG PL different route open. +(Persuasion opens a route for refusal. Coercion closes different routes. Do you leave different routes open for me?) + +T: theama weno kawhera kelu. +care when coerce become. +(When does care become coercion?) + +S: mia ma sano. thia lila wepu ralu nai. pi wa mia wira po phae. +1SG NEG know. 2SG PURP go free be. POL Q 1SG window POT open. +(I do not know. You need not go. May I open the window?) + +T: mia mena thia wira phae meno lesawi. +1SG DECL.COMP 2SG window open DECL.COMP.CLOSE consent. +(I consent to your opening the window.) + +ne sanuwe wira phae. sihewa ma shua. +NAME sanuwe window open. breeze NEG come. +(sanuwe opens the window. No breeze comes.) + +S: sihewa phirae shoeka ho kanu. +breeze different route ASSUM choose. +(The breeze has apparently chosen another route.) + +ne telari hola. +NAME telari laugh. +(telari laughs.) + +T: mia phialu milau kanu. ha lesawi wei ta phoa nai. mia ha wepu ma lesawi. +1SG water drink choose. PROX consent DAT one do be. 1SG PROX go NEG consent. +(I choose to drink water. This consent is for one action. I do not consent to this going.) + +T: pi no wei mia thia remotha solae. +POL IMP DAT 1SG 2SG reason explain. +(Please explain your reason to me.) + +S: mia thia siwe hi nila. mia mena thia wiloru phaelo meno hea. ha wi thesori mia sherewa panoru. +1SG 2SG sweat DIR see. 1SG DECL.COMP 2SG dizziness feel DECL.COMP.CLOSE hear. PROX two evidence 1SG claim support. +(I directly see your sweat. I hear that you feel dizziness. These two pieces of evidence support my claim.) + +T: mia ha wi thesori kelomi. whekai mia thia remuma whamoi. thia sherewa mena mia na wepu meno ma natheri. +1SG PROX two evidence accept. CONTR 1SG 2SG conclusion doubt. 2SG claim DECL.COMP 1SG NEC go DECL.COMP.CLOSE NEG entail. +(I accept these two pieces of evidence. However, I doubt your conclusion. Your claim does not entail that I must go.) + +S: mia phelira to nai. shorela mia mena thia na wepu meno ma sherewa. mia mena thia theama phelona meno sherewa. ha wi sherewa senao ma nai. +1SG mistaken PST be. REPH 1SG DECL.COMP 2SG NEC go DECL.COMP.CLOSE NEG claim. 1SG DECL.COMP 2SG care require DECL.COMP.CLOSE claim. PROX two claim same NEG be. +(I was mistaken. In other words, I do not claim that you must go. I claim that you require care. These two claims are not the same.) + +T: mia thia lilea woraka. theama karami ma nai. shorupo karami ma nai. +1SG 2SG clarify appreciate. care authority NEG be. protect authority NEG be. +(I appreciate your clarification. Care is not authority. Protection is not authority.) + +T: sua hina theama kanu. +who what care choose. +(Who chooses which care?) + +S: thia waeli nai. thia mia lo remotha shelomu. thia po lonae. thelao thia ha kanu phelu. +2SG conscious be. 2SG 1SG PL reason understand. 2SG POT respond. CONS 2SG PROX choose hold. +(You are conscious. You understand my reasons. You can respond. Therefore, you hold this choice.) + +T: lu mia waeli ma nai. sua ha kanu phelu. +COND 1SG conscious NEG be. who PROX choose hold. +(If I am not conscious, who holds this choice?) + +S: mia ma sano. lu thia po ma lonae. mia mena mia thia po shorupo meno nohero. +1SG NEG know. COND 2SG POT NEG respond. 1SG DECL.COMP 1SG 2SG POT protect DECL.COMP.CLOSE believe. +(I do not know. If you cannot respond, I believe that I may protect you.) + +T: thia rinu remotha nai. whekai ha karami ma nai. +2SG want reason be. CONTR PROX authority NEG be. +(Your desire is a reason. However, it is not authority.) + +S: mia nawo. mia mena mia karami phelu meno ma sherewa. whekai lo mia shurano nela ralu sone. ha kanu soneho phelu. +1SG agree. 1SG DECL.COMP 1SG authority hold DECL.COMP.CLOSE NEG claim. CONTR PL 1SG safe COORD free value. PROX choose tradeoff hold. +(I agree. I do not claim that I hold authority. However, we value safety and freedom. This choice has a tradeoff.) + +T: soneho karami ma loa. +tradeoff authority NEG give. +(A tradeoff does not grant authority.) + +S: pi no thia ha lesawi norui solae. +POL IMP 2SG PROX consent boundary explain. +(Please explain the boundary of your consent.) + +T: lu mia waeli ma nai. mia mena thia kau neri sila tholupi mia po kolua meno lesawi. +COND 1SG conscious NEG be. 1SG DECL.COMP 2SG ALL cool community room 1SG POT carry DECL.COMP.CLOSE consent. +(If I am not conscious, I consent that you may carry me to the cool community room.) + +S: mia ha lesawi lilea. lu thia waeli ma nai. mia kau neri sila tholupi thia po kolua. lu thia waeli nai nela thia po lonae. mia wela thia ha kolua lesawi welo thilou. wa ha norui telua nai. +1SG PROX consent clarify. COND 2SG conscious NEG be. 1SG ALL cool community room 2SG POT carry. COND 2SG conscious be COORD 2SG POT respond. 1SG INT.COMP 2SG PROX carry consent INT.COMP.CLOSE inquire. Q PROX boundary accurate be. +(I clarify this consent. If you are not conscious, I may carry you to the cool community room. If you are conscious and can respond, I ask whether you consent to this carrying. Is this boundary accurate?) + +T: ha norui telua nai. mia ha lesawi po naweri. thia ha naweri na thekao. +PROX boundary accurate be. 1SG PROX consent POT refuse. 2SG PROX refuse NEC acknowledge. +(This boundary is accurate. I can withdraw this consent. You must acknowledge this refusal.) + +S: mia nawo. mia ha winora seru. pi wa mia mua ha womu nua thia po manolu. +1SG agree. 1SG PROX plan commit. POL Q 1SG LOC PROX home COM 2SG POT stay. +(I agree. I commit to this plan. May I stay here with you?) + +T: mia mena thia mua ha womu nua mia manolu meno lesawi. mia phialu rinu. +1SG DECL.COMP 2SG LOC PROX home COM 1SG stay DECL.COMP.CLOSE consent. 1SG water want. +(I consent to your staying here with me. I want water.) + +S: lo mia remuma ma phelu. whekai lo mia ha norui phelu. +PL 1SG conclusion NEG hold. CONTR PL 1SG PROX boundary hold. +(We do not have a conclusion. However, we have this boundary.) + +T: henoi. pi no phialu noshi thola. themore tholupi neri ka ma kelu. +ENOUGH. POL IMP water near bring. argument room cool CAUS NEG become. +(Enough. Please bring the water nearer. An argument does not make a room cool.) + +ne sanuwe phialu noshi thola nela hola. +NAME sanuwe water near bring COORD laugh. +(sanuwe brings the water nearer and laughs.) +``` + +## Proposition record + +| Move | Proposition or distinction | State at the close | +|---|---|---| +| Bodily report | telari reports dizziness and thirst. sanuwe directly observes sweat. | Both speakers accept these as relevant evidence. | +| Initial claim | sanuwe claims that telari is not safe in the hot home. | telari understands the claim without agreeing to the proposed departure. | +| Inference challenge | The evidence supports care but leaves the response open. | sanuwe retracts the stronger framing and separates required care from required departure. | +| Coercion boundary | Persuasion leaves refusal practically available. Coercion closes alternatives through power or threat. | Both speakers use the distinction, but neither treats courteous wording as proof that a choice remains free. | +| Authority | Care can offer reasons, as can protection, desire, or a tradeoff. Authority still needs its own ground. | sanuwe accepts the distinction. | +| Present choice | telari is conscious, understands the reasons, and can answer. | The present choice remains telari's. | +| Conditional consent | telari consents to being carried to the cooler room only if consciousness is absent, and reserves withdrawal while an answer remains possible. | sanuwe repeats the boundary and commits to it. | +| Unresolved case | The hard case is a person who cannot answer and has left no prior consent. | The friends settle this afternoon; the general question survives it. | + +## Vocabulary under pressure + +| Question | Phi treatment | Result | +|---|---|---| +| Does interpersonal control need a root? | The dialogue separates `karami` authority, `kawhera` coercion, `lesawi` consent, and `naweri` refusal. Technical `ketora` control never enters the scene. | The dialogue needs no new root. The English umbrella word hides distinctions Phi can state directly. | +| How should present decision-making ability be described? | Three ordinary observations carry the point: telari is `waeli`, understands the reasons with `shelomu`, and can `lonae`. Technical `henora` stays with systems. | The composition keeps the observed abilities visible. | +| Can advance consent be expressed? | A `lu` condition precedes a complete act framed by `mena ... meno` as the object of `lesawi`. | The construction is long but clear. Repeated use can decide whether speakers need a shorter form. | +| Do persuasion and coercion remain distinct in use? | `sharemi` leaves the route of refusal open; `kawhera` closes practical alternatives. | The pair carries the argument in ordinary use. | +| Does danger itself decide what follows? | `pemaru`, `thesori`, `panoru`, and `natheri` separate hazard, evidence, support, and entailment. | The language can acknowledge danger without letting one observation choose the response. | + +## Five-pillar reading + +| Pillar | Work done in the dialogue | +|---|---| +| Solarpunk values | The cooler community room is shared infrastructure that creates another option. Its open door widens the choice rather than settling it. | +| Secular Buddhist philosophy | Both speakers return to present experience, admit uncertainty, and loosen their hold on a complete conclusion. Attention stays with the person in the room rather than with winning the argument. | +| Art Nouveau aesthetics | Air, skin, water, window, and bodily movement keep the reasoning in living form. Even the absent breeze participates, though with rather less civic spirit than the speakers might have preferred. | +| Peace linguistics | Refusal remains an answer. The speakers name coercion plainly, separate understanding from agreement, and repair an overreach instead of rewarding it with consensus. | +| Pre-industrial wisdom | The scene uses afternoon heat, moving air, water, and the community's nearby room rather than a clock or a numerical threshold. Exact records can still stand beside Phi when a real decision needs them. | + +The conditional agreement solves the afternoon's practical problem because telari can give it. The harder case is still waiting: a person cannot answer, no prior consent is available, and the desire to protect them has not settled who may act. The water, at least, has a clear destination. diff --git a/texts/catalogue.json b/texts/catalogue.json index 3c05e4d8..b3c610a4 100644 --- a/texts/catalogue.json +++ b/texts/catalogue.json @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ "method": "Translation", "summary": "The Solarpunk Community's five opening paragraphs and 22 propositions in close Phi translation. Political claims, aesthetic references, and practical proposals stay aligned to the licensed source." }, + { + "path": "care_and_coercion.md", + "kind": "short", + "title": "theama weno kawhera kelu: When care becomes coercion", + "method": "Original", + "summary": "An original Phi dialogue set in a hot room, where two friends test whether care can protect without borrowing authority and end with a bounded agreement rather than a complete conclusion." + }, { "path": "north_wind_and_sun.md", "kind": "short",