su-to · W199

suto · self-evident proposition; truth whose ground is its own structure · ✅

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Domain	Epistemology / Philosophy
Class	concept
Type	compound
Register	formal / philosophical
First use	DOI-001, Declaration of Independence (S630): la-yu to lo-su-to

Composition

su (structure/order) + to (pattern/thought/knowledge). Head-final: to (knowledge) is head; su specifies that the grounding mode is structural and internal. su-to = knowledge [whose ground is] structure = truth that is self-structuring = self-evident proposition. The complement is derived-to (knowledge derived from external chains of inference); su-to is the counterpart: knowledge that needs no external chain because the structure IS the proof.

Definition

self-evident proposition; a claim that requires no external justification because its truth is grounded in its own structural character; a truth whose verification is internal to itself.

Notes

W199. First attested DOI-001 (S630, "We hold these truths to be self-evident"). Important construction note: ro-to would be invalid — ro- is the instrument marker particle in grammar.md, not a primitive root, and cannot form compound words. su-to is the correct and phonologically valid construction. Parallel with go-ne (W159, self-originating relation = "I AM WHO I AM"): both are self-referential forms whose justification is internal. go-ne = cause whose origin is itself; su-to = truth whose structure is its own ground. These belong to the family of Tonesu forms encoding self-grounding. S638 (DOI-001-J) exploits this connection explicitly.

Related

su (primitive), to (primitive), go-ne (W159 self-originating relation — structural parallel), to-ne-su (W000 organized truth — the language itself), to-su (W030 organized knowledge)

In the corpus

3 attestations.

S#	Tonesu
S630	la-yu to lo-su-to We hold that these are self-evident truths.
S638	vo-ne-no-fe ne go-ne / su-to ne tonesu Unalienable rights are self-originating (like the divine I AM) / self-evident truth is the condition of organized knowledge.
S650	~wi-fe'de ne su-to / ke, wi-fe no to-su-ki lo-to-fe wi-fe'de ne ka-li-de ~wi-fe'de is a structural fact / but the rule has not comprehended the boundary between penalty and tax.
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