resolution

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Definition

Resolution is the settling of a structured field of possibility or tension into a determinate form, event or act. It can name a local structuring within individuation, a selected actual outcome, or an agent's commitment. Such settling does not exhaust potential or guarantee durable stabilization; quantum, practical and categorical uses retain their different explanatory settings.

Explanation

AB moves from a crystal's resolution of tension to the further event selecting one quantum outcome, expressly distinguishing this from decoherence and probabilistic odds. Its account of irreversible actuality also extends settling to organized choice and perceptual completion. The book acknowledges disagreement over quantum interpretation and denies that Simondon and Kastner constitute the same theory.

PB emphasizes local events without a universal now and says resolution changes what remains possible. Its categorical rendering distinguishes a selected cocone from the freest colimit, which does not dictate the selection. RB1 treats individuation as selective and non-exhaustive. RB2 applies accumulated resolutions to the proposed historical formation of law-like constraints. RB3 distinguishes resolution of disparity from subsequent retention: some local resolutions fail to persist. These qualifications prevent determinate actuality from being confused with final closure or permanent form.

Scope and attribution

All five books support treatment. RB3's observational detail in social-media research is excluded from these senses. Quantum interpretation, structural analogy and categorical reconstruction are not mutually proving identities.

AB — The Actual Book

Resolution spans form-taking, quantum outcome, irreversible actuality, choice and perception. Decoherence does not by itself select one outcome; interpretation remains contested.

Occurrence locators: 12, 14, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 46, 52, 60, 68, 69, 71, 95, 139, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 147, 173; Glossary: 224; Notes: 235, 238; Appendix: 264, 273.

PB — The Possible Book

Local resolution changes remaining possibility and can characterize a free act. Formal individuation takes a cocone rather than a colimit dictating selection.

Occurrence locators: 57, 82, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 103, 116, 118, 121, 122, 150, 154, 159, 160, 161.

RB1 — The Real Book, Volume I: The Possible Is Real

Local resolutions condition further structuration without exhausting potential. Simondon and Kastner are compared across distinct scales and idioms.

Occurrence locators: 7, 8, 10, 15, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32, 38, 40, 42, 54, 73, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 132, 134, 139, 140, 143, 156, 162, 249, 252, 257, 272, 282, 299, 303; Notes: 71.

RB2 — The Real Book, Volume II: Becoming Is Being

Prior resolutions can accumulate into path-dependent law-like constraints without exhausting the field.

Occurrence locators: 60, 163, 164, 181, 206, 234, 251, 253, 256, 257, 258, 263, 265, 267, 269, 272, 292.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

Resolution of disparity is form-taking, not transmitted content. Retention is a further requirement; RTI is an analogue rather than proof of Simondon.

Occurrence locators: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 43, 47, 56, 58, 77, 85, 118, 144, 145, 210, 212, 242, 278, 329, 332, 333, 334; Epilogue: 354, 358; Notes: 394.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Domain-specific mechanisms and wider analogies remain distinguished. Original definitions retain their scope; local cross-references do not rewrite them. Named theories and mechanisms are distinguished from neighboring background, homonyms and the author’s own synthesis. Reproduced AI passages retain their separate voice.