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  "abstract": "SAE Relation Theory Paper 3. 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\nCommitment is foundational to Relation Theory. This paper establishes how it binds a person, and how it does not.\n\nCommitment does not bind exit, and it does not sign for tomorrow. It binds a person in two places, and neither rests on locking tomorrow: on my side, it rests on where I stand, and as long as I still stand where I promised, there are things I cannot cancel; on the other party's side, it rests on the effects already left. Leaving is entered on the books, and revising keeps the books on the change; a commitment already made to others is not cleared from the books by one act of leaving. Structurally, no relation can lock tomorrow.\n\nCommitment is entered as three things: what was promised, in word and deed; where one stands, and revising; the effects left. A commitment that concerns only oneself is kept apart from a commitment to others: for the former, a change made tomorrow with the books kept on it completes a revision or an exit; for the latter, one's own change or leaving does not clear the books on the other party's side. Commitment does not turn into a duty to the other party. That tomorrow cannot be locked lies in the layer of qualification, and is necessary; locking lies in the layer of running, and is possible; where tomorrow is locked in running, what is violated is the exit right (its basic component), which is a person's basic right. Locks are read by structure: words that only characterize exit slide in the direction of colonization; raising the cost of exit outward while the way is still passable carries the direction of colonization; short of trapping, neither of these is yet a lock; only what seals off exit itself, by whatever means, is locking. Breach of faith is entered apart: dropping and falsity are first-person matters, and from outside only non-fulfillment, obstruction and joint revision of the agreement are reported. A commitment of today to tomorrow that is marked as one tomorrow can avow anew, and whose revising and exit are actually reachable, does not fall into locking.\n\nAn implicit commitment is still avowal on my side and where I stand, only not said out loud; it cannot be inferred from duration or habit alone, nor decided on my behalf by someone else, but it can be described fallibly. Stability means only that a stretch of dealings is maintained over time; it carries no evaluation, and it is read party by party; the side maintained only by lock, cost, stalling or habit that has been surreptitiously swapped is where structural instability lies. This paper gives no norms of planning rationality and no list of duties to keep commitments.\n\nSAE 关系论 Paper 3。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承诺是关系论的基础。这一篇立它怎样约束人,又怎样不约束人。\n\n承诺不约束退出,也不替明天签字。它约束人,有两处,都不靠锁住明天:在我这一侧,靠站,只要我还站在答应过的地方,有些做法我就取消不了;在对方那一侧,靠已经留下的作用。离开要入账,改要认账;对别人已经作出的承诺,不借一次离开消账。任何关系,结构性就锁不住明天。\n\n承诺分三样记:答应的言行、站与改、留下的作用。只涉自己的承诺与对他人的承诺分开:前者,明天认了账的改就完成修订或退出;后者,本人的改或离开不替对方那一侧消账。承诺不落成对对方的义务。锁不住在资格层,是必然;锁住在运行层,是可能的,运行上锁住了,侵犯的是退出权(基础分量),那是人的基础权利。锁按结构读:只给退出定性的话滑向殖民的方向,向外抬高退出成本而路仍走得通的带殖民这个方向,这两样未到困死还不是锁;封死退出本身的,不论手段,才是锁了。失信分开记,撂下与虚假是第一人称的事,从外面只报未做到、受阻与共同改约。今天对明天的承诺,标为可被明天重新认领,而修改与退出实际可达的,不落锁定。\n\n隐含的承诺仍是我这一侧的认领与站,只是没说出来;它不能从时长或习惯里单独推出来,也不能由别人替我认定,但可以被可错地描述。稳定只指一段来往在时间里维持下来,不带评价,逐方读;只靠锁、成本、拖延或被偷换的习惯维持的那一端,是结构性不稳定。这一篇不给计划理性的规范,不给兑现承诺的义务清单。\n\nRelated works\n\nRelation: Cites · Resource type: Publication / Preprint · Scheme: DOI\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23541778\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23545024\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23545057\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23545087\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23250387\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22313628\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22974154\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22970752\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22970769\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22970777\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22970781\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22970783\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22652134\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21437038\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21611154\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22050204\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21093939\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21212595\n\n10.5281/zenodo.21285136\n\n10.5281/zenodo.22853810\n\n10.5281/zenodo.19381666\n\n10.5281/zenodo.19328662\n\n10.5281/zenodo.23287669",
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  "title": "SAE Relation Theory Paper 3: Commitment / SAE 关系论 Paper 3: 承诺",
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