The Three Differences and the Phenomenology of the Lateral Difference

Abstract

A working note distinguishing three differences — ontological (what obtains / how it obtains), categorial (how / how), and lateral (this own / another own) — and developing the phenomenology of the third. It is deposited as the candidate articulation of a preregistered identity trial, so that the text adjudicated is public and dated before the adjudication. Its determinations are working determinations and are not doctrine. Version 1.5.1 retains the V1.5 common-field settlement entire and enters four micro-rulings governing article use: keystone terminology remains retired, and the warranted claim is that in the tried who-region the lateral phenomenon is a point of joint visibility for the ontological and categorial differences; where the same manner and the relevant transferable determinations are held fixed and the difference remains, the transferable what no longer accounts for the difference disclosed by the case, without the what being exhausted as a seat and without the how being inferred as an eliminative remainder; frustration is a determination of the who-intention at a matched control, and nothing is attributed to what obtains otherwise, which is neither said to resist nor to refuse nor to frustrate; and comparative transparency is withdrawn, the who being transparently reached under a determinate way of obtaining while what obtains otherwise is co-given at the perimeter without being positively reached under its own — a difference in kind of givenness rather than a degree.