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Condemnation launders the name
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Claim (verbatim)
Condemnation launders the name: the Paris condemnation of 1277 did not suppress the condemned theses, it anonymized them. Discussing a censured position under its author's name risked complicity, but the disputational machine could not run without its hardest objections, so masters kept the content and severed the attribution — the condemned theses should persist in quodlibeta at undiminished volume, re-badged under quidam dicunt. The measurable signature of medieval censorship is a spike in anonymous attribution, not a drop in discussion: condemnation edits the citation layer, not the idea layer.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
In the edited quodlibeta of Godfrey of Fontaines and Henry of Ghent (both writing at Paris after 1277), match discussed theses against the 219 condemned articles. Primary clause: theses matching condemned articles are introduced by anonymous attribution formulae (quidam, aliqui, dicitur) at at least twice the rate of comparable non-condemned theses in the same quodlibets; the verdict follows this clause. Secondary clause: the volume share of condemned-matching content shows no decline relative to pre-1277 Parisian quodlibeta.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Kill: the public-domain Les Philosophes Belges editions of Godfrey of Fontaines' Quodlibeta and the edited Quodlibeta of Henry of Ghent, matched against Piche's edition of the 1277 syllabus (La condamnation parisienne de 1277).
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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
The 1277 condemnation's chilling-but-not-suppressing effect on Paris masters — continued cautious discussion of censured theses, with Godfrey of Fontaines openly opposing the censure — is documented in the censure literature. The signature test (anonymous-attribution formulae at twice the rate for condemned-matching theses in quodlibeta) has not been measured.
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