documentary-source-criticism

5 notes carry this tag — 3 observations, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Capture: Does a genuine mechanism connect the DOCSUB-postdates-RHW-1986 claim and the McPeters 1990 letter's July-1984 date, or is the cosine-0.84 pairing a false friend?

capture promoted 2026-09-22 · bridge-investigation, cosine-similarity, diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, werbos
Werbos's DOCSUB chronology claim and McPeters's 1990-letter dating claim are both unflagged members of the vault's diplomatics cluster — dated-primary-source comparison overruling a received attribution

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-22 · diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, bridge-investigation, cosine-similarity, werbos
The DOCSUB and McPeters diplomatics-cluster members are two different species of the same evidentiary genre, and the ozone myth-ledger had already logged a shallower, unnamed version of the cross-domain link

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-22 · diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, bridge-taxonomy, werbos, mcpeters
What genuinely connects the Gates 2025 Altair BASIC scan and the Jevons 1870 Royal Society dating claim (cosine 0.87, unlinked)

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-14 · bridge-investigation, embedding-false-friend, diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, jevons
Gates's 2025 Altair BASIC authentication reasoning is the same evidentiary move Mabillon founded — a genuine, previously unlinked member of the vault's diplomatics cluster

observation seedling Tier 3 2026-08-14 · diplomatics, forgery-detection, documentary-source-criticism, history-of-computing, gates