Aristotle by slogan

Claim (verbatim)

Aristotle by slogan: after about 1300 the working Aristotle of the arts faculties was a florilegium of exam-ready tags, not the translations. Oral disputation and examination rewarded fixed memorizable slogans, and once the popular auctoritates handbooks compiled them, the tag-list became the effective text — so quotations in later arts-faculty writing should increasingly match the handbooks' standardized wording even at loci where that wording diverges from every Latin translation. The divergent tags are tracer dye: they reveal whether a writer read the Philosopher or the crib.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Identify loci where the standard Auctoritates Aristotelis wording measurably diverges from all Aristoteles Latinus translation versions. Primary clause: in arts-faculty texts composed after 1300, at least 40 percent of Aristotle quotations at those loci follow the florilegium's deviant wording, versus under 10 percent in texts composed before 1250; the verdict follows this clause. Secondary clause: theology-faculty texts of the same period show a lower deviant-match rate than arts texts, tying the shortcut to the examination system rather than to the century.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Kill: the critical edition Les Auctoritates Aristotelis (Philosophes Medievaux 17) collated against the Aristoteles Latinus editions, with digitized arts-faculty disputation texts from open repositories as the test corpus.

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).

That the Auctoritates Aristotelis (Johannes de Fonte, c. 1300) became the effective working Aristotle of the later schools -- a handbook of memorizable, exam-ready tags 'picked up and used by almost all logical writers' -- is Hamesse's established finding. Not located: the item's tracer-dye measurement -- at loci where the Auctoritates wording measurably diverges from every Aristoteles Latinus version, arts-faculty texts after 1300 following the florilegium's deviant wording at >=40% vs <10% before 1250, with theology-faculty texts lower than arts -- which turns the known fact into a decidable read on whether a writer used the Philosopher or the crib.

• Jacqueline Hamesse (ed.), Les Auctoritates Aristotelis: un florilege medieval (Philosophes Medievaux 17, 1974) — The critical edition establishing the florilegium's central classroom role
• 'Reading a Philosophical Florilegium... the Parvi flores (Auctoritates Aristotelis)' (Cambridge repository) — The handbook as the effective source of Aristotelian tags; kill dataset with Aristoteles Latinus

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