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title: "Solzhenitsyn, "Live Not By Lies" (1974)"

Solzhenitsyn, "Live Not By Lies" (1974)

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SLZ-001 · Solzhenitsyn, "Live Not By Lies" (1974)

S765 Let epistemic fraud exist in the world — solely: I am unwilling to commit it myself.

S766 Force demands that the collective commits epistemic fraud.

S767 I have signal-certainty that the rulers are committing epistemic fraud / I cannot formally know it.

S768 The rulers control the epistemic arbiter — my only access is signal-level certainty of the fraud.

S769 Do not commit fraud! / Do not bind yourself to fraud!

S770 Fraud is constituted by those who bind themselves to it.

Notes

Base parallel establishing symmetric first-level knowledge. la-mi to [la-ze to-fe-ka] = personal epistemic modal (to = knowledge) with clausal bracket: I know [that-they commit fraud]. la-ze to [la-ze to-fe-ka] = they know [that they themselves commit fraud] — the agent la-ze appears in both the outer frame and the inner bracket, marking the self-knowledge of the perpetrators. / = bi-clausal parallel: the two knowledge claims are structurally paired as the symmetric foundation for the nesting in S773. First use of to [CLAUSE] in a / bi-clausal parallel construction. Note the distinction from S767 (SLZ-001-C) where si and no-to were the paired modals: here both sides of / carry the same modal (to) with different agents.

S771 Because [refusing fraud] — liberation becomes possible.

SLZ-002 · The Mutual Knowledge Structure

S772 I know they are committing fraud / they know they are committing fraud.

S773 They know that I know that they are committing fraud / I know that they know that I know they are committing fraud.

S774 All persons know that they are committing fraud — and yet they continue committing it.

S775 They are not demanding that anyone believe the lie / they are demanding that the collective performs it.

S776 Fraud known to all parties is directed power, not deception.


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