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Kasei-Theory II.Observation: Observation Without Subject

Juza Minamikata

Published Jun 8, 2026• 0 citations
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This paper fixes observation within the second system of Kasei-Theory. Observation is not introduced as subject-act, observer, cognition, perception, measurement, empirical access, registration, evidence, collapse, or object-formation. Reading does not establish observation. Time does not establish observation. Configuration does not establish observation. Observation is fixed only as the local readability condition under which ordered maintainability is readable as observation without subject. This readability does not establish subject, observer, cognition, perception, measurement, access, evidence, collapse, object, or ontology. The paper prevents observation from being reduced to empirical knowledge, physical measurement, epistemic foundation, observer-position, or measurement-collapse. Observation does not access Kagen, does not disclose a world, does not form an object, and does not establish a subject. No observer is presupposed. No cognition is introduced. No perception is introduced. No measurement is established. No collapse is introduced. No object is formed.

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10.5281/zenodo.20587034

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