Condemnation launders the name

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).

Novelty / leakage triage

provisional — model-triaged, shepherd review pending

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).

Both variables are addressed by closely related prior work. That masters continued to discuss the condemned theses after 1277 (Godfrey of Fontaines and others reopening unicity-of-form and the individuation questions) is documented (Wippel; SEP), and prudential anonymity in the aftermath is attested -- the Franciscan-Dominican correctoria over Aquinas circulated anonymously. Not located: the specific measurable signature the item stakes -- condemned-matching theses introduced by anonymous formulae (quidam, aliqui) at >=2x the rate of comparable non-condemned theses, with discussion volume undiminished (censorship editing the citation layer, not the idea layer) -- as an executed count on the edited quodlibeta.

• J.M.M.H. Thijssen, 'Condemnation of 1277', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Continued discussion of censured theses; John Wippel on Godfrey of Fontaines
• 'Correctoria', New Catholic Encyclopedia (via Encyclopedia.com) — The post-1277 correctoria circulated anonymously -- prudential attribution management

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