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• Audit of the working-memory claim that the ingester missed science secrète after 15 prior MP sources Paper A

  A meta-audit of a working-memory claim that has been used rhetorically in Paper A's reflexive argument. The claim is that an LLM ingester, having processed 15 prior Merleau-Ponty sources, failed to extract science secrète — taken as confir…

• Chouraqui's Interpretive Bet and the Recursive Paradox

  Question: What question would an opponent ask after reading Ambiguity and the Absolute that Chouraqui would have the hardest time answering?

• Did Gurwitsch cause MP's anti-Husserl turn?

  Saint Aubert (E&C II Ch IV §§ 2–3) argues that MP's late anti-Husserlian turn is directly caused by Aron Gurwitsch's 1957 Théorie du champ de la conscience. The hardest anti-Husserl notes (NT April 1960: "cela n'est pas compatible avec la…

• Does MP replace consciousness with the unconscious, or only radicalize non-representational consciousness?

  Saint Aubert (E&C II Ch VI) defends a replacement thesis: the late MP — across Notes sur le corps (1960), Notes de travail (1959–61), and the Visible and Invisible working notes — systematically substitutes "unconscious" for "consciousness…

• Does the retrograde movement of the true solve or deepen historical relativism?

  It does both — and this is its point, not its failure. Merleau-Ponty's radicalization of Bergson's phrase is not a theorem that dissolves the relativism problem but a reframing that denies the problem's usual formulation. The standard rela…

• Four-element intersection (science secrète + déformation cohérente + chiasm + Stiftung) and its non-MP precedents Paper A

  > Status note (2026-05-07). This question page was written when claims#science-secrete-stiftung-chiasm was live. The claim's status changed from live to contested on 2026-05-05 (Phase 8 eighth run; user-adjudicated Option γ — the α–δ split…

• From hinge to chiasm: what changes in the transition? Paper A

  The I&P extraction note identifies "hinge" (charnière, gond, pivot) as a HUB-weight recurring motif across the 1954–55 courses, appearing at [3](2), [22], [127](15), [179](45), [215 verso](5). Institution "exists between others and myself,…

• H_synth re-audit on its original textual basis (E&M + PoP + Indirect Language + Saint Aubert 2021) Paper A

  > Status note (2026-05-07). This question page was written when claims#science-secrete-stiftung-chiasm was live. The claim's status changed from live to contested on 2026-05-05 (Phase 8 eighth run; user-adjudicated Option γ — the α–δ split…

• How can two terms be one inside the other without fusing or separating? Paper A

  Standing answer: Merleau-Ponty does not solve this; he dissolves it. The fuse-or-separate dilemma has force only if one concedes that there are two demarcated terms first, which must then be either joined or held apart. MP denies the premi…

• How does Merleau-Ponty's interrogation differ from Husserl's reduction?

  Husserl's transcendental reduction brackets the natural attitude to recover the constituting acts of consciousness. Merleau-Ponty's interrogation refuses that move: the faith cannot be bracketed because it is the structure of any bracketin…

• How does MP read cinema via Gestalt? Paper A

  MP's cinema writings run on a single spine: Gestalt psychology provides the perceptual concept (the "temporal Gestalt") that lets MP invert Bergson's condemnation of cinema into a validation. Cinema is not a falsification of duration but a…

• How does MP's seinsgeschichte tension with Heidegger bear on the 1959→1961 reversal? Paper A

  The two are the same problem seen from opposite sides. In 1959 Merleau-Ponty anchors ontology in the "thick, opaque present" and refuses the Hegel/Marx/Nietzsche detour; by 1960–61 he gives a whole course on exactly that detour. The revers…

• Is 'Freud without demonology' a consistent method?

  Query: Does MP's perceptual rereading of Freud preserve or domesticate the clinical insights it claims to retain?

• Is ambiguïté the sortie from ambivalence?

  Saint Aubert (E&C II Ch I §§ 2–3) defends a novel philological thesis: contrary to the received cliché of Merleau-Ponty as "philosopher of ambiguity" in a weak, irenic sense, ambiguïté and ambivalence are not synonyms but technical opposit…

• Is constitutive non-coincidence the meta-structure of MP's philosophy?

  At least six central structures in the wiki share the same formal feature — an essential, productive failure to coincide:

• Is Cybernetics the Same Philosophical Enemy for Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty? Paper A

  Short answer. Both clauses of the question are partly true, but the or is too strong. Cybernetics (in Heidegger 1964) and pensée opératoire (in Merleau-Ponty 1960–61) target the same structural phenomenon — the reduction of beings to manip…

• Is Ineinander the late ontology's replacement for institution, or its ontological ground? Paper A

  This is the standing Open Question recorded at institution line 271: "How does institution relate to the later concept of ineinander? The 1954–55 course develops institution; Course 10 (1958–59) first introduces Ineinander. The symbolic-ma…

• Is Phenomenology of Perception already the break with Sartre?

  Yes — philosophically, if not socially. Part Three Ch III of Phenomenology of Perception — the chapter on freedom that closes the book — is a chapter-length rejoinder to Sartre's Being and Nothingness (1943). Sartre is never named. Every c…

• Is Schneider a limiting case of sleep?

  The Schneider case (PhP 1945) and dedifferentiation (Passivity course 1954–55) describe the same structural event at different scales:

• What changes if flesh is already Marxist (1844 Manuscripts) rather than invented in V&I? Paper A

  The decisive fact, flagged on flesh-as-element: in Course 3 of The Possibility of Philosophy (lines 1858–1894), Merleau-Ponty reads Marx's 1844 Manuscripts and arrives at the formulation "history is, in this sense, the very flesh of humani…

• What does Taddio (2025) actually contain on the science secrète / tacit-Gestalt identification? Paper A

  > Status note (2026-05-07). This question page was written when claims#science-secrete-stiftung-chiasm was live. The claim's status changed from live to contested on 2026-05-05 (Phase 8 eighth run; user-adjudicated Option γ — the α–δ split…

• What happens to Descartes's oscillation in the late ontology? Paper A

  Query: Does V&I resolve the Cartesian oscillation that Nature Course 1 identifies, or does the chiasm inherit it as a structural feature?

• What is Merleau-Ponty's relation to Ruyer's finalism?

  A split. Merleau-Ponty in the 1954–55 Institution course follows raymond-ruyer's 1953 Les Temps Modernes article "Les conceptions nouvelles de l'instinct" closely for data — Lorenz on imprinting, Tinbergen on supra-normal stimuli, Gesell o…