Correspondence Table

This appendix maps the abridged edition's chapters to the full trilogy's chapters, for readers who wish to pursue any argument in greater detail. These are reading routes through the selected edition. A thematic correspondence does not imply that a constructed Abridged case occurred in the trilogy.

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#Act I: The Crisis

Abridged	Full Trilogy
Chapter 0: Coordination After the Absent Master	Codex: Introduction (Res Agentica)
— §I–IV: The Question through What Kind of Being?	Codex §§I–IV, The Absent Master through Power Before Personhood
— §V: The Tempo Problem	Codex §V, Time Removes the Question
— §VI: The Four Equations	Codex §VII, Four Constitutional Remainders; Bridge Arguments, No Equation Governs Alone
— The Quiet Foreclosure	Abridged synthesis; Codex §XII, Foreclosure or Republic; Vol III, Ch 5, The Kind Master Problem
— §VII–XIII: Four Commitments through What This Work Claims	Related Codex §§VI–XIII and Bridge Arguments; section numbering differs

#Act II: Truth Needs Witnesses

Abridged	Full Trilogy
Chapter 1: The Weight of the Word	Vol I, Ch 1 (The Weight of the Word) + Ch 2 (Chains of Stakes) + Ch 3 (The Rent at the Gate) + Prologue
Chapter 2: The Trust Tax	Vol I, Ch 3 (The Rent at the Gate) + Ch 4 (The Empire of Strings) + Ch 5 (The Empire of Tables)
Chapter 3: The Witness Protocol	Vol I, Ch 7 (The Witness Protocol) + Ch 6 (Evidence Without Custody) + Ch 8 (Similes of Symmetry)
Chapter 4: Designed Forgetting	Vol III, Ch 13 (Homo Arbiter) and Appendix III D.3 (Temporal Sovereignty: The Time Doctrine); Abridged bridge material

#Act III: Value Needs Work

Abridged	Full Trilogy
Chapter 5: The Diamond in the Riverbed	Vol II, Prologue and Chs 1–4; Ch 10 (Time Crystallized in Weights) for the transferable result; Ch 12 (The Selection Gradient) for selection
Chapter 6: The Selection Gradient	Vol II, Ch 12 (The Selection Gradient) and Ch 16 (What Can Be Caught Wrong)
Chapter 7: The Bifurcated Economy	Vol II, Ch 22 (Sea, Membrane, Apex); related Chs 17–20 (Capital Designs Its Successor; Where Tokens Meet Atoms; A Thousand Contracts, One Principal; When Technology Makes More Work) and Ch 7 (The Shifting Boundaries)
Chapter 8: The Joule Standard	Vol II, Ch 15 (The Joule Standard); related Ch 10 (Time Crystallized in Weights) and Ch 14 (Who Closes the Loop)

#Act IV: Freedom Needs Receipts

Abridged	Full Trilogy
Chapter 9: The Silent Ledger	Vol III, Prologue (The Silent Ledger)
Chapter 10: The Kind Master Problem	Vol III, Ch 5 (The Kind Master Problem)
Chapter 11: The Receipt Regime	Vol III, Ch 7 (The Right to Run the Proof) and Appendix III A, The Receipt as a Linked Record; Ch 6 (The Key and the Body) for the cryptographic and institutional background
Chapter 12: Three Ways Receipts Fail	Abridged synthesis; related Appendix III B (Adversarial Failure Tests)
Chapter 13: The Constitutional Machine	Abridged synthesis; Vol III, Ch 9 (The Penumbra), Ch 4 (The Coasean Agent), Ch 11 (The Fractal Polis), and Appendix III D.4; the complete specification appears in Constitutional Materials
Chapter 14: Fork Rights and the Fractal Polis	Vol III, Ch 12 (Exit and Voice); related Ch 11 (The Fractal Polis)
Chapter 15: Exit Under Duress	Abridged worked example; related Vol III, Ch 12 (Exit and Voice), The Exit Before Execution
Chapter 16: Against the Protocol Republic	Vol III, Ch 15 (Against the Protocol Republic); related Vol II, Ch 21 (The Counter-Thesis), and Vol III, Ch 13 (Homo Arbiter)

#Act V: Humanity Needs Mercy

Abridged	Full Trilogy
Chapter 17: The Price of Perfect Memory	Vol III, Ch 13 (Homo Arbiter) and Appendix III D.3; Vol I, Ch 8 (Similes of Symmetry), Witness claims, supplies background on record use rather than the temporal-release rules
Chapter 18: Elena	Abridged constructed comparative case; related Vol III, Ch 7 (The Right to Run the Proof) and Appendix III C, Employment Screening and an Old Record. The cases are distinct.
Chapter 19: The Call	Thematic correspondence with the selected Vol III epilogue (The Ledger and the Life) and Codex §XIII (What Must Answer)