The lawyer lives in the Secunda

Status: Anticipated · untested

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This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

Aquinas's Summa runs from God (Prima Pars) through human action and morals (Secunda) to Christ and sacraments (Tertia); Gratian's Decretum and the decretals were the Church's law books. The conjecture is that canon law enters the Summa almost entirely through one door: the moral part, and above all the Secunda Secundae's treatments of justice, vows, and religious life, while the speculative parts stay nearly law-free. The mechanism is audience: the Secunda was written for men who would judge cases and hear confessions, so its authorities had to be enforceable, not merely true. If the concentration is as extreme as conjectured, 'theology versus canon law' was not a boundary between authors or faculties but a boundary running through the middle of a single book, drawn by pastoral use.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Primary clause: in the Aquinas citation corpus, citations of Gratian's Decretum and the decretal collections per thousand citation contacts are at least five times higher in the Secunda Secundae than in the Prima Pars. Secondary: within the Secunda Secundae, legal citations concentrate in the justice and religious-state questions at more than double the part's own average.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

In-house Aquinas citation corpus (1,424 judged citation contacts), partitioned by work and part.

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

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Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

Aquinas's use of Gratian is studied case-by-case and scholars note the juridical texture of the justice questions, but the distributional claim — canon-law citation density five times higher in the Secunda Secundae than the Prima Pars — is un-run; the Aquinas-canon-law literature itself calls the field underexplored.

'Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Canon Law: Two Cases of Gratian's Influence in the Summa theologiae'

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