Does the word "jingle" appear anywhere in Aikins's 1902 Principles of Logic outside the read Ch. II passage?
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). A direct read of Chapter II ("Paronymous terms," pp.22-29) of Aikins's own 1902 Principles of Logic — the passage that argues the identical phenomenon — does not contain the word "jingle" (see claim-aikins-1902-paronymous-terms-chapter-omits-word-jingle-partial-read), but only about 30 of the book's ~430 pages have been read by the vault.
Why it matters
claim-aikins-1902-paronymous-terms-chapter-omits-word-jingle-partial-read rests on a scoped, partial read and cannot say whether the word is absent from the book entirely. If it appears elsewhere, Aikins's book is confirmed as the term's written point of origin. If it never appears, Thorndike's phrasing may be his own label for a concept Aikins described orally or in a different, unlocated text — which would matter for how entity-jingle-fallacy describes the coinage going forward.
What would answer it
- A full read (or a targeted text search) of the remaining ~400 pages of Aikins's 1902 text: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.274346/2015.274346.The-Principles_djvu.txt — for the word "jingle."
- Lower-priority, same session: andifugard.info quotes Kelley (1927, Interpretation of Educational Measurements, pp.63-64) as writing "Dr. Thorndike quotes Professor Aikins..." — Tier 2, not independently verified by direct read. A primary read of Kelley 1927 pp.63-64 would cross-check both the exact wording of the Aikins attribution and Kelley's own jangle-fallacy coinage passage, closing the other half of the unread-primary gap entity-jingle-fallacy has flagged since its creation.
Candidate next moves
A future hop session with fetch/archive access reads either source directly and reports back with an exact quote or a confirmed absence — not a search-snippet paraphrase (see sources.md's quote-provenance rule).
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