claims#ontological-rehabilitation-of-sensible-cross-author-register

The "ontological rehabilitation of the sensible / surface" register names a shared cross-author project (MP, Carbone, Deleuze, Saint Aubert) that recovers the sensible from its post-Platonic demotion to mere appearance

ID: ontological-rehabilitation-of-sensible-cross-author-register Title: The "ontological rehabilitation of the sensible / surface" register names a shared cross-author project (MP, Carbone, Deleuze, Saint Aubert) that recovers the sensible from its post-Platonic demotion to mere appearance Status: candidate Confidence: medium Claim type: structural-parallel / cross-author Created: 2026-05-24 Updated: 2026-05-24 Sources: carbone-2004-thinking-of-the-sensible, merleau-ponty-1968-visible-and-invisible, merleau-ponty-1961-eye-and-mind, saintaubert-2021-etre-et-chair-ii Wiki homes: sensible-ideas, fundamental-thought-in-art, surface-vs-depth

Claim

The "ontological rehabilitation of the sensible / surface" motif (motifs.md line 778) names a shared cross-author project — MP (sensible idea, fundamental thought in art), Carbone (the Proust-Platonism reversal in Thinking of the Sensible), Deleuze (the surface as ontologically primary in Logique du sens), Saint Aubert (the carnal sensible in Être et chair) — that recovers the sensible from its post-Platonic demotion to mere appearance. The shared structural move: (i) reject the sensible-as-mere-appearance / intelligible-as-true-being binary inherited from Plato; (ii) substitute the sensible as itself ontological, not derivative; (iii) ground this in a non-foundational register (MP's chiasm, Carbone's "ideas at the sensible level," Deleuze's surface, Saint Aubert's carnal sensible). The four authors' rehabilitation-projects converge on what the wiki's sensible-ideas page and fundamental-thought-in-art page already track; the claim makes the cross-author convergence explicit at the claim-register level.

Evidence

  • carbone-2004-thinking-of-the-sensible — Preface xiv–xvii on Proust's sensible-ideas as the master formula of MP's late ontology; the Proust-Platonism reversal as the cardinal cross-author move.
  • merleau-ponty-1968-visible-and-invisible — "The Intertwining—The Chiasm" chapter develops the sensible as ontologically primary; the November 1960 working notes anchor the rehabilitation thesis.
  • merleau-ponty-1961-eye-and-mind — painting as the medium where the sensible's ontological work is most visible.
  • saintaubert-2021-etre-et-chair-ii — the carnal-sensible register that Saint Aubert develops as the late-MP reception's primary anchor.
  • Deleuze Logique du sens (1969) — not in raw/; cited at motifs.md line 778+ as cross-tradition. The surface-vs-depth inversion is the structural parallel.
  • wiki/motifs.md "ontological rehabilitation of the sensible / of the surface" entry (line 778) names the cross-author register but has no claim-side anchor.

Counterpressure / Limits

  • The four-author convergence is structural, not transmitted. Carbone reads MP and Proust; Deleuze develops Logique du sens independently of MP-direct reading; Saint Aubert reads MP through Blondelian-Maine-de-Biran. The cross-author convergence is on the structural project, not on a shared influence chain.
  • Deleuze is not in raw/. The Deleuze-side anchoring depends on a future Logique du sens ingest; until then, the four-author convergence is supported by three anchors (Carbone, MP, Saint Aubert).
  • The Platonist reversal may be a wiki-side reading rather than each author's self-articulation. Carbone explicitly names it; MP does not. Whether the "rehabilitation" language is the right register or a wiki-projected synthesis is open.
  • The relation to claims#mp-painter-as-primary-witness-for-indirect-ontology (supported) is unclear. Painting-as-primary-witness is the wiki's painter-side claim; the present candidate is the broader register-side claim. The two may be coordinate or may overlap in ways the candidate does not yet specify.

Payoff

If accepted: (a) the motifs.md HUB entry on ontological rehabilitation of the sensible gains a claim-side anchor; (b) the cross-author register (MP, Carbone, Deleuze, Saint Aubert) becomes weave-traceable as one structural project; (c) the wiki's sensible-ideas page and fundamental-thought-in-art page gain a unified cross-author claim to cite; (d) future Deleuze ingest has a wiki-side claim to map onto.

Status History

  • 2026-05-24 — created at candidate under CR-019 harvest of 10 under-claimed HUB motifs. The ontological-rehabilitation-of-the-sensible HUB-motif had no claim entry naming the cross-author register. 3-test gate partial: T1 contestable (structural-vs-transmitted; wiki-projected-synthesis risk); T2 anchored at three of four authors (Deleuze pending); T3 counterpressure recorded. Held at candidate awaiting Deleuze ingest or independent secondary-source articulation of the cross-author register.

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