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Objections come from florilegia
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Claim (verbatim)
Objections come from florilegia. Connects the disputatio's argumentative architecture to the material sources of quotation: the objections a scholastic author stages are the tradition's stock counter-texts, harvested from commonplace collections and classroom memory, whereas the constructive respondeo forces the author back to the authority's actual wording to make a distinction stick. The genre's test side and build side should therefore draw on materially different quotation channels within one and the same work.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
In the judged citation-contact corpus, split contacts by build-vs-test reading assignment. Primary clause: the mediated-quotation share among test-side contacts exceeds the mediated share among build-side contacts by at least 10 percentage points. Secondary: the gap keeps the same sign within each major cited authority taken separately. The verdict follows the aggregate 10-point clause.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Kill: the in-house Aquinas citation corpus (1,424 judged contacts carrying both direct-vs-mediated and build-vs-test assignments).
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated by a fresh Fable-tier instance (claude-fable-5) at maximum effort with generation-first blindness (no repo reads, no web searches, no DB queries; single packet Write was the only tool use); title list supplied at launch, titles only, no verdicts or dossiers seen (sidecar docs/generated/conjecture_fresh_fable_w01_titlelist_20260708.md); prompt pre-committed in docs/generated/conjectures_1001_wave_ledger.md and docs/generated/conjecture_fresh_fable_w01_prompt_20260708.txt. Wave W01 of docs/GOAL_CONJECTURES_1001_CAMPAIGN_20260708.md. Novelty unverified by construction.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
That florilegia supplied scholastics' stock authorities and that objections rehearse the tradition's counter-texts is established qualitatively in disputation scholarship, but no study splits one work's citations by build-vs-test side and compares mediated-quotation shares. The channel-asymmetry measurement is un-run.
Sources cited by the triage
- Alex Novikoff, The Medieval Culture of Disputation (2013)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 'Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy' (quaestio structure)
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