Volume I

Similes of Symmetry

A history of witnessing — from clay bullae to blockchain — and the five properties every civilization reinvents when it tries to make truth survive the absence of its author.

PrologueThe Notary's Art

Part IA History of Witnessing

From clay bullae to chain of custody

Ch. 1
The Weight of the WordOn the problem of making truth survive the absence of the person who first asserted it
Ch. 2
Chains of StakesOn the bill of exchange and the architecture of commercial truth
Ch. 3
The Rent at the Gate

Interlude: When the Medium Shifts

Part IIThe Architecture of Proof

Two paradigms of computation and what they miss

Ch. 4
The Empire of Strings
Ch. 5
The Empire of Tables
Ch. 6
Evidence Without Custody

Part IIIThe Reckoning

From five properties to four consequences

Ch. 7
The Witness Protocol
Ch. 8
Similes of Symmetry

Companion

The Proofs

The formal companion to Similes of Symmetry. Definitions, theorems, and constructions for the witness-structure framework.

Part I: Foundations (A1–A6)Part II: Equipment (A7–A11)Part III: Coherence (A12–A16)Part IV: Construction (A17–A21)Part V: Specification (A22–A26)Part VI: Demonstrations (A27–A32)

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