Commitment Register (Reg_C)
The Commitment Register Reg_C is the τ-categorical readout functor whose codomain is Stance (stance-constituted contents): the interface between the τ-framework and performative, lived-as-true content. Reg_C is the fourth of four canonical readout functors (E/P/D/C). Its coherence criterion is stance-stability — the commitment persists under reflective scrutiny without reducing to empirical, normative, or diagrammatic content.
τ-Definition
The Commitment Register Reg_C is the τ-categorical readout functor whose codomain is Stance (stance-constituted contents): the interface between the τ-framework and performative, lived-as-true content. Reg_C is the fourth of four canonical readout functors (E/P/D/C). Its coherence criterion is stance-stability — the commitment persists under reflective scrutiny without reducing to empirical, normative, or diagrammatic content.
Categorical invariant. Functor Reg_C : K_τ → Stance whose image-objects are stance-constituted contents (postulates, existential commitments, lived-as-true claims) and whose morphisms preserve stance-stability.
Primary registry anchor:
VII.D04
Supporting items:
VII.D10,
VII.D11,
VII.D01,
VII.D02,
VII.D03
τ-Derivation Chain
Phenomenological Correlate
Reg_C is instantiated whenever a categorical claim is rendered as a performative commitment — content constituted by the act of commitment itself, not by observation, obligation, or proof. Reg_C-content answers the question 'What am I willing to live as true?' Examples: the Kantian postulates of practical reason; an existential orientation that survives reflective interrogation; a worldview-claim whose meaning is the stance one takes toward it.
Examples:
- Kantian postulates of practical reason (freedom, immortality, God) — held not because proved but because coherent moral agency requires them (Reg_C-readout)
- An existential orientation that persists under reflective scrutiny without collapsing into 'I observe', 'I ought to believe', or 'I can prove'
- A worldview-axiom whose content is constituted by the commitment to live as though it holds (e.g., the commitment to dignity as label-independence, prior to its diagrammatic certification)
Register codomain: Stance (stance-constituted contents; commitments, postulates, existential orientations; coherence = stance-stability)
Manuscript reference: manuscript-sources/book-07/part01/ch03.tex
Lean Coverage
Status: Planned