East Asian canons
Kill-instrument — a dataset that can test conjecturesCBETA/SAT/Tripitaka Koreana; catalogues (Kaiyuan lu, Siku zongmu, dynastic treatises); the Quan Tang shi.
Emergent lineage
Related pages, connected by this project's own research.
Related Pages
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Record claim
About the production, transmission, survival, or filtering of the written/material record up to the pre-modern past itself -- scribal behaviour and e…
East Asian manuscript and canonical transmission
China, Korea, and Japan sustained the largest and best-catalogued manuscript cultures of the pre-print world — bamboo and wooden slips, silk, then pa…
Digitized texts
digitized full-text corpora used as countable data -- OpenITI/KITAB, ROMTEXT, and similar digitized-text projects. New A2 family.
Published editions
critical and documentary print editions used as countable data (Meersseman, Glorieux, MGH, Kaeppeli, Schwartz's Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, and o…
Lost books
Wikipedia-style child shelf for lost-book contexts.
Gestalt
Conjectures that read cultures as one system — movement signatures across distant culture-areas (gestalt-connectivity) and record-laws conjectured in…
World claim
About the pre-print world outside the writing system itself -- trade, wages, politics, language, social structure, non-book craft; the written/materi…
Channel dissociation
Two transmission channels for the same content predicted to carry opposite statistical signatures, including error-spectrum forensics (diagnosing the…
Open conjectures — noetic, untested
Falsifiable questions posed below the evidence boundary by the 1001 Conjectures project. They are leads, not evidence, and carry no weight in this page's assessment.
- The one score that had to leave home to survive Already answered
- The handbook that everyone copied, and the tunes nobody did Anticipated in print · untested
- A living orchestra that forgot most of its own program Anticipated in print · untested
- The emperor's orchestra plays on in the neighbor's shrine Already answered
- Japan wrote its music down in the twelfth century and then lost most of it too Anticipated in print · untested
- Two Song love-songs, alive only because they emigrated Already answered
From the One Thousand and One Conjectures. They carry no evidential weight here; verdicts and credits live on each conjecture's own page.