Phase 1 — Paper A Thesis-Coherence Gap Report (2026-05-16)

Run framing. Fourteenth full audit. Subsequent-run mode (per AUDIT_PLAN.md v1.5 §"Subsequent audit runs differ as follows"). Scope is concepts added or revised since the last full audit (2026-05-05 / Phase 8 thirteenth-run 2026-05-09 + discharge). Delta since 2026-05-09 close: 142 pages with updated: in 2026-05-09→2026-05-16; 41 pages with created: in the same window; 3 major-volume MP source ingests (SnS, ILUL, PbP) plus 1 secondary (Heinbokel 2021).

Audit-mode constraints. Pre-authorized supported-promotion run (AUDIT_PLAN.md PF6 framing under this run's invocation goal): Phase 8 may proceed without per-claim halt; durable CLAUDE.md rule restored after this run. Bridge-card sign-off and apply-mode writes for v0d.7 cards are NOT in scope for this run (carried in wiki/.audit/next-actions.md row 1).


1. Presence check — thesis-central concepts

All H_synth-successor (γ-architecture) thesis-central concept pages exist and were recently updated. Result: PASS.

Concept Path updated: confidence: γ-architecture markers
[[chiasm]] concepts/chiasm.md 2026-05-16 high 7
[[institution]] concepts/institution.md 2026-05-16 high 1 (in body)
[[stiftung]] concepts/stiftung.md 2026-05-16 high 5
[[ineinander]] concepts/ineinander.md 2026-05-16 high 3
[[coherent-deformation]] concepts/coherent-deformation.md 2026-05-16 high 7
[[science-secrete]] concepts/science-secrete.md 2026-05-09 medium — (contested-claim wiki home; γ-aligned)
[[fundamental-thought-in-art]] concepts/fundamental-thought-in-art.md 2026-05-09 high 17
[[indirect-ontology]] concepts/indirect-ontology.md 2026-05-09 medium 11
[[speaking-spoken-speech]] concepts/speaking-spoken-speech.md 2026-05-16 high — (γ-implicit; PbP middle term anchored)
[[sensible-ideas]] concepts/sensible-ideas.md 2026-05-16 high — (PbP Vinteuil anchored)
[[conquering-language]] concepts/conquering-language.md 2026-05-16 high — (ILUL primary anchor; γ-implicit)

γ-successor claim [[claims#mp-painter-as-primary-witness-for-indirect-ontology]] is at status supported (per 12th-run promotion 2026-05-09); no demotion or re-contestation indicated by the new sources.

Contested claim [[claims#science-secrete-stiftung-chiasm]] remains contested since the γ-decision 2026-05-05. The new PbP and ILUL sources do not re-rehabilitate H_synth: the four-element joint-operation grammar remains absent from MP's published text; PbP confirms that the 1953-54 transition zone is where the diacritical theory of sense begins to operate, but not that the chiasm + Stiftung + science-secrète + painting mutually condition one another in MP's voice. Contested status holds.

2. Quality check — γ-architecture coherence on touched pages

Spot-checked the four heaviest-touched thesis-central pages for γ-architecture alignment. All four reflect the post-2026-05-05 γ split correctly (the 2026-05-09 deep-rewrite pass and the 2026-05-16 PbP/ILUL touch-ups are consistent):

  • [[coherent-deformation]]: supports δ as universal operative form; PbP/ILUL add language-side genealogy (Monday course 1953 + L6 marginal). No conflict with δ; refinements only.
  • [[chiasm]]: condition-of-intelligibility framing intact; PbP additions are about diacritical sense, not about chiasm-as-mechanism. Aligned.
  • [[stiftung]]: PbP adds institution as transmission anchoring at [128]-[139]; PbP is now properly cited as a stiftung middle term. Aligned.
  • [[ineinander]]: 2026-05-09 γ-aligned rewrite intact; PbP/ILUL did not add ineinander material.

No page requires γ-realignment. Quality verdict: PASS.

3. Philological resource check

Resource Status in raw/ Referenced in wiki? Citation accuracy verifiable? Action
MP 1953-54 PbP present (Le Probleme de la parole...) yes (source page + extraction note) yes already discharged via 2026-05-16 ingest
MP 1953 ILUL present (datalab-output-Investigations into the Literary Use of Language...) yes yes already discharged via 2026-05-16 ingest
MP 1948 SnS present (Sense and non-sense.md) yes yes already discharged via 2026-05-09 ingest
Saint Aubert 2006 Vers une ontologie indirecte present (since 2026-05-07 ingest) yes yes resolved; previously the most consequential single absence
Saint Aubert 2013 Du corps au désir absent yes (referenced) no durable raw absence; carry forward
Beauvoir Le deuxième sexe absent yes (entity stub + 1 claim slug) no durable raw absence; carry forward (gates [[claims#mp-beauvoir-1949-convergence-on-gender]] candidate→live promotion)
Faul fabricated citation pattern n/a absent (verified clean in 13th-run citation-integrity batch) n/a no action

The PbP and ILUL philological-foundation gap was the most consequential single absence remaining for Paper A's 1953-55 genealogical middle-term work; both are now closed. The Saint Aubert 2013 and Beauvoir 1949 absences persist but are clearly bracketed.

4. Phase 8 candidate readiness

The three new MP source extraction notes have well-articulated Pass 3 Part D sections supplying 9 high-quality candidate claims at intake (3 each from PbP, ILUL, SnS):

From [[merleau-ponty-2020-probleme-de-la-parole]]:

  • (PbP-Cand1) pbp-as-middle-term-parole-parlante-parlee-1953-54 — genealogical middle term claim, already a 2026-05-16 ingest-time candidate
  • (PbP-Cand2) pbp-as-pre-history-of-ecart-niveau-pli — genealogical; écart-niveau-pli vocabulary pre-V&I origin
  • (PbP-Cand3) pbp-as-primary-anchor-for-sensible-ideas-pre-vi — corrective/genealogical; redistributes V&I weight to PbP for sensible-ideas

From [[merleau-ponty-2026-literary-use-language]]:

  • (ILUL-Cand1) stendhal-naturalness-practically-resolves-sartre-antithetic — structural-parallel + corrective
  • (ILUL-Cand2) mp-1953-anticipates-1955-action-of-unveiling-vs-governing — genealogical (1953 → 1955)
  • (ILUL-Cand3) conquering-language-as-coherent-deformation-of-language — genealogical + philological

From [[merleau-ponty-1948-sense-and-non-sense]]:

  • (SnS-Cand1) mp-principal-condition-1945-pre-figures-ht-ad — philological-genealogical (Concerning Marxism 1946 → HT/AD)
  • (SnS-Cand2) perceptual-faith-1946-1947-published-prefiguration — philological (1946-47 published foi perceptive)
  • (SnS-Cand3) sartre-too-antithetic-critique-already-1945 — genealogical (1945-Battle = 1955-AdV structural critique)

All nine are Pass-3-articulated, slug-verified for de-dup, and ready for Phase 8 walk under this run's pre-authorization. None depends on a raw source not in raw/.

5. Open issues / carry-forward

  • None of the new ingests requires a new concept-page stub that does not already exist. PbP/ILUL/SnS produced ~30 new concept pages at ingest-time (per log entries 2026-05-09 / 2026-05-16); thesis-central coverage is complete.
  • The single contested claim (science-secrete-stiftung-chiasm) is not re-rehabilitated by the new sources; contested status holds.
  • Density-bias diagnosis (2026-05-16) recorded 0 retirements in 36 days at the time of writing. Phase 8 of this run should consider whether any candidate slug aged 17+ days without status-history activity warrants candidate→retire under the new evidence (none surfaced from this presence/quality check, but Phase 8 to verify).

6. Decision point (Phase 1.5)

No structural-rethink stop condition tripped. All thesis-central concepts present, γ-aligned, raw sources in place. Proceed to Phase 2.

Outputs

  • This report (wiki/.audit/paper-a-gaps-2026-05-16.md)
  • 9 Phase 8 candidate slugs queued (Section 4)
  • No new wiki page creations from this phase
  • Log entry: see Phase 1 entry to be appended at run close