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The unnamed teacher
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Claim (verbatim)
The unnamed teacher: in the Guide of the Perplexed, naming is a safety and positioning policy, not a bibliography. Maimonides names authorities who are canonical and safely dead (Aristotle, al-Farabi) while his heaviest structural and textual dependence — the Avicennian analysis of necessary and possible existence — goes unnamed, because openly crediting the rival school's living tradition would misposition the work for both its Jewish readers and its Islamic milieu. Measured textual reliance and explicit naming should therefore anti-correlate at the top of the distribution: the most used source is the least named.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Align the Judeo-Arabic Dalalat al-hairin against the corpora of al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and the Arabic Aristotle, normalizing by source size. Primary clause: aligned-reuse volume with Ibn Sina's corpus exceeds aligned-reuse volume with al-Farabi's corpus, despite al-Farabi being named repeatedly in the Guide and Ibn Sina never; the verdict follows this clause. Secondary clause: the Avicennian reuse concentrates in the Guide's treatment of existence and necessity (the preface to part II and its opening chapters).
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Kill: OpenITI machine-readable texts of the Dalalat al-hairin and the Farabian and Avicennian corpora, with KITAB passim alignments.
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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); 188-title list supplied at launch, titles only, no verdicts/dossiers seen; prompt pre-committed in docs/generated/conjectures_1001_wave_ledger.md and docs/generated/conjecture_fresh_fable_w02_prompt_20260708.txt. Wave W02 of docs/GOAL_CONJECTURES_1001_CAMPAIGN_20260708.md. Novelty unverified by construction. DEVIATION DISCLOSURE: after an output-limit resume, one accidental no-op placeholder Write to the session scratchpad preceded this packet Write; nothing was read and no information entered the generation; blindness intact, but the run used two Writes, not one.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Pines's 'Philosophical Sources' introduction and the subsequent literature document unnamed Avicennian doctrines (necessary/possible existence) in the Guide against the repeatedly named al-Farabi — the naming-policy asymmetry is anticipated. But the measured claim is contested rather than established (Maimonides' explicit ranking favored al-Farabi, and scholars dispute the depth of Avicennian dependence), and the aligned-reuse-volume comparison has never been computed.
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