{ "abstract": "SAE Relation Theory Paper 1. This record holds the Chinese text and its English edition. The English edition is an independent rewrite of the Chinese text, not a translation; where the two differ, the Chinese governs. Each text comes with a quotation audit table.\n\nRelation Theory reads how two subjects, and one person's yesterday, today and tomorrow, collide with one another, and what these collisions sediment into through dealings and time. This paper lays down the minimum for the series, and only the minimum.\n\nA relation exists as soon as an act at one bearer position, or a construct that act leaves behind, identifiably and actually enters the conditions of occurrence at another bearer position; a moment is enough. Nothing here requires that the two parties know, that there be a response, that there be recognition, or that there be commitment; it requires only that the other side be a bearer. What dealings sediment into is a question to be asked of every relation, not a condition of a relation's existing.\n\nA relation is a construct, not a bearer: it does not legislate, does not pass final judgment on either party's own law on their behalf, and is not the source of cultivation, only the setting in which cultivation happens. Collision is taken in a broad sense and carries no pejorative sense; conflict and mutual chiseling are two of its subclasses; mutual chiseling is judged by process, not by identity. In dealings in which a requirement appears on the other side that he bears in the first person and by which he goes on organizing his action in the same situation, conflict cannot be guaranteed not to occur so long as the relation is not exited; in a relation in which no such requirement appears, as in reading a book by an author who has died, at least collision cannot be guaranteed not to occur.\n\nCultivation and colonization are two directions: cultivation goes toward making space; colonization goes toward pouring in and occupying. The direction is read on this one effect; whether it took hold is seen in the other party's later understanding and action. The two are not the two extremes of one scale: the same act can carry both directions, and it can also carry no direction at all; they are directions, not labels. Closure is not judged separately within a relation: sealing the other party's paths to saying no, to revising and to leaving, or making them hard to travel, carries the direction of colonization. Violation is judged separately, and only at the layer of basic rights; it and direction are two lines. Violation looks at structure, not at how the other party later understands.\n\nThis paper also gives the minimal definition of expectation, draws the range (which does not include the relation between persons and constructs), sets up pairwise accounting where three or more are involved, and keeps acknowledgment that requires no qualification on separate books from the realization of recognition. This paper does not prove that any relation is good, nor that any relation ought to occur. Why the subject still needs relation this paper only raises, and hands to Paper 7.\n\nSAE 关系论 Paper 1。本记录收中文正文与英文版;英文版是独立重写,不是翻译,两版不一致处以中文为准。两版各附引文审计表。\n\n关系论读两个主体之间,以及同一个人昨天、今天与明天之间,怎样互相碰撞,这些碰撞又在来往与时间里沉积成什么。这一篇是这一系列的起码篇,只立起码的几件事。\n\n一个承担位置上的行动,或它留下的构,一旦可指认地实际进入另一个承担位置的发生条件,关系就有了,一个瞬间就够。这里不要求双方知情,不要求回应,不要求承认,也不要求承诺;只要求另一端是承担者。来往沉积成什么,是每一段关系都要问的问题,不是关系成立的条件。\n\n关系是一种构,不是承担者:它不立法,不替双方终审各自的法,也不是涵育的来源,只是涵育发生的场合。碰撞取宽义,不含贬义,冲突与互凿是它的两个子类;互凿按过程判,不按身份判。另一端有一项以他第一人称承担、在同一情境里持续组织其行动的要求出现的来往里,关系不退出,冲突就不能保证不发生;没有这样一项要求出现的关系里,如读一位已故作者的书,至少碰撞不能保证不发生。\n\n涵育与殖民是两个方向:涵育朝腾出空间去,殖民朝灌入并占住去。方向在这一次作用上读;成没成,看对方此后的理解与行动。两者不在一把尺的两端,同一个动作可以两向都有,也可以什么方向都不带;它们是方向,不是标签。关系里不另判封闭,封住对方说不、改与走的路,或把它们弄得难走,带殖民这个方向。侵另判,只在基础权利一层,与方向是两条线;侵看结构,不看对方此后怎样理解。\n\n这一篇另立期待的起码定义,划出射程(不含人与构之间),立三人以上两两记账,并把不需要资格的认与承认的实现分开记账。这一篇不证明任何关系是好的,也不证明任何关系应当发生。为什么主体仍然需要关系,这一篇只提出,交给需要篇。\n\nRelated works\n\nRelation: Cites · Resource type: Publication / Preprint · Scheme: DOI\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23545024\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23545047\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23545057\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23545076\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23545087\n\n10.5281/zenodo.19297847\n\n10.5281/zenodo.19328662\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22313628\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23250387\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22974154\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22970777\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22970783\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22652134\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22731235\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21405207\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21611154\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22191071\n\n10.5281/zenodo.20769253\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21093939\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21212595\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21285136\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21314907\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23269635\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23271072\n\n10.5281/zenodo.20011018\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22992615\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23000910\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23287669\n\n10.5281/zenodo.19321534", "abstract_shown": true, "affiliations": [], "article_type": null, "arxiv": null, "author_total": 1, "authors": [ { "name": "Han Qin", "orcid": "0009-0009-9583-0018" } ], "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/3z6mv2rr1t5s6.bib", "cited_by": 0, "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23554896", "fulltext_url": null, "id": "3z6mv2rr1t5s6", "issns": [], "landing_url": "https://zenodo.org/records/23554896", "language": null, "licence": "CC-BY-4.0", "licence_label": "CC BY 4.0", "licence_source": "article", "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "metadata_licence": null, "native_subjects": [], "openalex": null, "pdf_url": "https://zenodo.org/api/records/23554896/files/SAE_RelationTheory_P1_WhatARelationIsAndWhatItIsNot_EN_v1.1.pdf/content", "pmcid": null, "pmid": null, "published": "2026-10-22", "publisher": null, "ris": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/3z6mv2rr1t5s6.ris", "sources": [ { "first_seen": "2026-11-05T12:20:47Z", "native_id": "23554896", "source": "zenodo", "url": "https://zenodo.org/records/23554896" } ], "subjects": [], "title": "SAE Relation Theory Paper 1: What a Relation Is, and What It Is Not / SAE 关系论 Paper 1: 关系是什么,不是什么", "title_text": "SAE Relation Theory Paper 1: What a Relation Is, and What It Is Not / SAE 关系论 Paper 1: 关系是什么,不是什么", "type": "preprint", "updated_at": "2026-11-05T12:20:47Z", "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/3z6mv2rr1t5s6", "venue": "Zenodo", "versions": [] }