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One master per article
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Claim (verbatim)
Everyone knows Aquinas synthesized Aristotle and Augustine; this conjecture claims the synthesis happened between articles, not within them. At the article level the two supreme authorities should behave like ions of like charge, repelling: an article argued in Aristotle's idiom rarely also grounds in Augustine's, because mixing registers multiplies objections and a master picks the single authority whose grammar decides the case at hand. The join is between co-citation network statistics and the fine grain of scholastic composition, testing the size of the unit at which reconciliation actually occurred. If this holds, the textbook image of a seamless Thomist fusion breaks at high resolution, replaced by a checkable mosaic of single-master articles whose alternation constitutes the synthesis.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Primary clause (verdict follows it): in the Aquinas citation corpus, article-level co-occurrence of Aristotle contacts and Augustine contacts is significantly below the independence expectation computed from their marginal article rates. Secondary clause: same-register pairs (Augustine-Gregory, Aristotle-Averroes) sit at or above independence under the identical test. Statistical test on the co-citation matrix.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
The Aquinas citation corpus article-level co-citation matrix.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated blind by claude-fable-5 in a single Write with no file reads, web access, or database queries; all context was supplied inline in the launching prompt.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
That Aquinas deploys Aristotle and Augustine in distinct argumentative registers and domains is a commonplace of Thomist scholarship, and quantitative citation profiling of his top authorities already exists (Augustine and Aristotle together ~75% of direct citations, with differentiated functions). The article-level co-occurrence repulsion test is un-run, but the register-sorting direction is established.
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