This paper presents Resolution Theory as a unified theory of thresholds. Its central schema is simple: buildup is not landing. Causes are not resolution. Explanation, complexity, evidence, pressure, and formal structure may accumulate, but they do not become authorship, consciousness, knowledge, validity, or ethical standing by accumulation alone. A threshold must be crossed. The paper grounds this structure in the Exposed Cogito, moving from the first certainty of the thinking subject to not I,
