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Aikins's 1902 chapter on "paronymous terms" discusses the jingle-fallacy phenomenon at length without using the word "jingle," in the portion read

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Edward L. Thorndike's 1904 primary text attributes the "jingle" fallacy by name to "Professor Aikins" (see claim-thorndike-1904-attributes-jingle-fallacy-to-aikins-not-himself), identifying Herbert Austin Aikins's 1902 book The Principles of Logic as the term's apparent point of origin. A direct read of the corresponding passage — pp.22-29 of Chapter II ("The Meanings of Words," pp.13-35), spanning the sections "Blunders of inference" and "Paronymous terms" (the latter beginning p.28) — finds Aikins discussing exactly the phenomenon the vault's entity-jingle-fallacy names: words that "appear to correspond in meaning but really do not," treated as a distinct, named category of reasoning error. The word "jingle" itself, however, does not appear anywhere in the portion read.

[partial read — only pp.22-29 of ~430pp examined; this is not a claim that the word appears nowhere in the book, nor even in the rest of Chapter II]. The finding is a scoped negative: the specific passage that argues the matching concept does not contain the word Thorndike attributes to its author. Three explanations remain open and unresolved by this reading: the word appears elsewhere in Aikins's ~430-page book; Thorndike is paraphrasing an oral or unpublished exchange with Aikins rather than quoting a text; or Thorndike's own "jingle" is his label for Aikins's concept, applied without Aikins ever using that exact word in print. See question-verify-aikins-1902-full-text-for-word-jingle.

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Tier 1 Herbert Austin Aikins 1902
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.274346/2015.274346.The-Principles_djvu.txt
“appear to correspond in meaning but really do not”
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