WHAT THE PROGRAMME HAS CONCLUDED: An Inventory of Results, and Eleven Conclusions Its Papers Imply but Do Not State

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Abstract A programme of some ninety papers accumulates conclusions faster than it states them, and it has never set its own framework out in one place. This article does three things. First, §2 catalogues the whole apparatus — every theory, theorem and coined term, with the paper in which each was established and the warrant it carries. Second, it sets out plainly what the Philosophy of Virtues has concluded: what is established, what is conditional, what is registered and untested, and what is not assessable. That part concedes its method and its findings to the programme’s own warrant audit and adds nothing to them. Third, and this is the article’s contribution, it derives eleven conclusions that follow from results the programme already holds and that no paper states. They are obtained by reading the corpus across its own boundaries: the forgery cluster against the ethics layer, the measurement layer against the classification layer, the crypto-religion results against the political ones. Four are worth the reader’s time before the rest. The maintenance cost of a counterfeit is what makes duration the only reliable test of virtue, which unites the Thermodynamics of Inversion, the re-tribalisation result, and Aristotle’s hexis under one mechanism, and yields a prediction that costs a few hundred euros to test (N1). The Internalisation Theorem is absorption in a single person, and the Absorption Theorem supplies the condition it has always lacked: internalisation completes when the external reference that could correct the agent is severed (N2). Moral formation is a verification problem, and the reputational layer is the only one at which virtue can be verified without being captured, which derives the programme’s practical prohibitions rather than asserting them (N3). And the three-channel measurement failure is a corollary of forgeability, not an independent finding: what the measurement papers discovered empirically is what the Duality Theorem predicts (N4). Two further conclusions are uncomfortable and are stated anyway. The programme’s own vocabulary is a transmissible form and therefore a forgeable one: it supplies an instrument for counterfeiting principled speech (N9). And the possibility of vice is not a defect of the moral order but the price of virtue being teachable (N5), a claim that must be kept clear of the two fallacies waiting on either side of it. Keywords: Philosophy of Virtues; inventory; warrant; Inversion Theorem; Capture Law; forgery; internalisation; moral formation; measurement; research programme Highlights · What is established in the programme is narrow, recent, and mostly not what the programme is known for. · A counterfeit costs more to maintain than the genuine act, so time is the only verifier that cannot be forged (N1). · The Internalisation Theorem gets its missing condition from the Absorption Theorem: severance of external reference (N2). · Virtue can be verified at the reputational layer and nowhere above it. The scoring prohibition follows rather than being assumed (N3). · The measurement layer’s three-channel failure is what forgeability predicts (N4). · Vice is not necessary to virtue; the possibility of vice is, because a teachable form is a copyable one (N5). · The programme’s own formalism is forgeable, and says so (N9). Relevance A reader approaching ninety papers needs to know two things that no single paper tells him: what the programme has actually concluded, and what those conclusions together imply. The first is a matter of record and is summarised here. The second is not on the record at all, because the conclusions in question live in different papers and different domains, and were never put side by side. Several of them are more testable than the results they follow from, and two identify the cheapest empirical work now available to the programme.