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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).
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.
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A provisional first pass authored by the model (Opus), not yet confirmed by the shepherd. It carries the same dated-search requirements as an authoritative verdict but is excluded from every headline figure and cannot underwrite a prediction until a shepherd confirms it. Provisional reading: Adjacent (closely related prior work exists).
That the dialectical apparatus of scholastic questions is fed by commonplace/authority collections is established: Abelard's Sic et Non assembled contradictory patristic quotations to generate the tensions a determinatio must resolve, and the systematic use of florilegia for argumentation is a recognized hallmark of the scholastic method. So the item's premise (objections harvested from stock counter-texts) is a held view. Not located: any measurement of a direct-vs-mediated quotation asymmetry BY argumentative role (test-side objections more mediated than build-side respondeo by >=10 points) within a single author's corpus -- the discriminating test, executable on the in-house Aquinas build-vs-test tagging.
- 'Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on the quaestio, sic-et-non method and florilegia) — Florilegia/commonplace collections as the source of staged objections
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