Does Icard's own 2023 Intellectica article match the nine-category Honesty×Truth taxonomy as reproduced in his 2024 arXiv paper's Table 6?

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Claim: Icard's 2023 Intellectica article contains, as its own Table 8, the identical nine named message types (t1–t9) that Icard's 2024 arXiv paper reproduces as Table 6

Claim type: historical/technical-mechanism (does a specific 2023 document contain a specific named taxonomy, cell-for-cell). Tier 1–2 required as the load-bearing point of this whole inquiry. Achieved Tier 1 — direct primary read of the 2023 article's full text (extracted via extract_pdf from its HAL self-archive, hal-04442314) against the already-vaulted 2024 primary text (re-fetched this session; sha256 confirmed unchanged from the existing note).

The 2023 article's own Table 8, captioned "A Descriptive Taxonomy of Intelligence Messages," and the 2024 paper's own Table 6, captioned "The Descriptive Taxonomy of Intelligence Messages presented in [5]" (where [5] is the 2023 article), carry the same nine cells in the same grid position:

Exact quote, 2023 article table caption: "Table 8: A Descriptive Taxonomy of Intelligence Messages." Exact quote, 2024 paper table caption: "Table 6: The Descriptive Taxonomy of Intelligence Messages presented in [5]."

Both documents also give the same category-count framing in near-identical language. 2023: "we use the nine categories naturally derived from this 3×3 descriptive matrix to elaborate a taxonomy of intelligence messages." 2024, describing the same 2023 table it reproduces: "This 3×3 taxonomy results in nine categories associated with more well-known informational labels from the litterature." [sic, both documents]

Provenance:

• source_url: https://hal.science/hal-04442314 (full text) — https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19968 (comparison document)
• source_sha: 49df24234243031b9d1dde157f1868c3ebdbec9a05c99c3f8dbb4af2c6322eab (2023) — 04a7d6bb7b51aaf475c644fb82684bb0ec9dbf6b67e057cabb6295ece48b2ea3 (2024)
• source_tier: 1 (both)
• exact quote (2023, Table 8 caption): "Table 8: A Descriptive Taxonomy of Intelligence Messages."
• exact quote (2024, Table 6 caption): "Table 6: The Descriptive Taxonomy of Intelligence Messages presented in [5]."
• exact quote (2024, on the 2023 table it reproduces): "This 3×3 taxonomy results in nine categories associated with more well-known informational labels from the litterature."

Claim: The two axis dimensions — "Truth of the Content" (True / Indeterminate / False) and "Honesty of the Source" (Honest / Imprecise / Dishonest) — are worded identically in both documents

Claim type: definitional (what the taxonomy's own dimensions are called and how their levels are defined). Tier 3–4 acceptable for a definitional claim in general, but escalated here to Tier 1–2 because it is part of the load-bearing "does it match" question; achieved Tier 1 via direct read of both primaries.

The 2023 article states: "Once extracted the descriptive dimensions of the scale, we obtain a 3×3 descriptive matrix based on two dimensions: 'Truth of the Content' vs 'Honesty of the Source'." Its own definitions: content is "true if it corresponds to objective facts, false if it does not and indeterminate if the content is semantically vague"; sources are "honest in case they tell exactly what they believe to be true, dishonest if they tell the opposite of what they believe and imprecise if they are pragmatically vague."

The 2024 paper, describing the same taxonomy by name: "This taxonomy is based on two dimensions, that is to say 'Truth of the Content' vs. 'Honesty of the Source'," and repeats the identical definitions for true/false/indeterminate and honest/dishonest/imprecise almost verbatim. Both dimension names, all six level-labels, and the underlying definitions match exactly across the two documents.

Provenance:

• source_url: https://hal.science/hal-04442314
• source_sha: 49df24234243031b9d1dde157f1868c3ebdbec9a05c99c3f8dbb4af2c6322eab
• source_tier: 1
• exact quote (2023): "we obtain a 3×3 descriptive matrix based on two dimensions: 'Truth of the Content' vs 'Honesty of the Source'."
• comparison source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19968, sha256 04a7d6bb7b51aaf475c644fb82684bb0ec9dbf6b67e057cabb6295ece48b2ea3, source_tier 1, matching quote: "This taxonomy is based on two dimensions, that is to say 'Truth of the Content' vs. 'Honesty of the Source'."

Claim: The 2024 paper's explicit total qualitative ranking of all nine message types does not appear anywhere in the 2023 Intellectica original — it is new material introduced alongside the reproduced table, not a reproduction of it

Claim type: technical-mechanism / historical (whether a specific formal claim exists in a specific earlier document). Tier 1–2 required. Achieved Tier 1 — this is an absence claim checked against a full direct read of the 2023 article's entire taxonomy section (§IV) and conclusion (§V), not a sample.

The 2024 paper presents, immediately after reproducing Table 6, a full linear ordering of the nine types "from best to worse": "The nine categories of the taxonomy can in fact be ranked qualitatively from best to worse... we propose the following qualitative ranking (QL) of the nine message types of the descriptive taxonomy: t1 >ql t5 >ql t7 >ql t2 >ql t9 >ql t3 >ql t8 >ql t6 >ql t4." The 2024 paper then spends roughly a full page justifying each pairwise step of this ordering.

The 2023 article's own presentation of the same nine categories (§IV-3, "Providing meaningful labels to message types," through its conclusion in §V) contains pairwise comparative language for individual cells — e.g. "type t3 happens to be less misleading than type t4," and the general statement that "the quality of a message improves when the credibility of its content increases and/or when the reliability of its source increases" appears only in the 2024 paper, not the 2023 one — but at no point states a complete nine-way ordering, uses the ">ql" notation, or ranks all nine categories against one another. Direct search of the 2023 full text (all of §III–V and the conclusion) for "ranking," "qualitatively," "best," and "worse"/"worst" turns up no instance of a totalized ordering claim.

This means the 2024 paper's Table 6 is an exact structural reproduction of the 2023 taxonomy, but the surrounding analytical apparatus in the 2024 paper — the full qualitative ranking — is new content attributed to the same self-citation ([5]) without being present in [5] itself.

Provenance:

• source_url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19968
• source_sha: 04a7d6bb7b51aaf475c644fb82684bb0ec9dbf6b67e057cabb6295ece48b2ea3
• source_tier: 1
• exact quote: "The nine categories of the taxonomy can in fact be ranked qualitatively from best to worse... we propose the following qualitative ranking (QL) of the nine message types of the descriptive taxonomy"
• comparison (absence) source: https://hal.science/hal-04442314, sha256 49df24234243031b9d1dde157f1868c3ebdbec9a05c99c3f8dbb4af2c6322eab, source_tier 1 — full text of §III–V read directly; no equivalent ranking statement located

Further leads

• The HAL deposit's own citation banner gives a DOI of 10.31234/osf.io/q8avs (a PsyArXiv-prefixed DOI, oddly), while the publisher's own intellectica.org catalog page gives DOI: 10.3406/intel.2023.2042 (a Persée-prefixed DOI) for the same article — worth resolving which DOI is authoritative before citing either in a claim-note.
• intellectica.org's own catalog page gives the article's page range as "pp.89-117" while both the HAL deposit and the 2024 paper's own citation of it give "pp.89-105" — a minor but uninvestigated pagination discrepancy between the publisher's site and the author's self-archive/self-citation.
• The 2023 article's footnote 5 states "Icard [2019] on the logical implementation of previous experimental results showing that credibility is the main dimension of the evaluation while reliability only plays an adjustment role" — an even earlier Icard paper (2019) that may be the true origin of the credibility-primacy claim explored in claim-icard-2024-dynamic-logic-makes-credibility-primary-reliability-secondary, not independently checked this session.
• The 2023 article's taxonomy is explicitly built by "adaptating the taxonomy of informational vagueness presented in" Égré and Icard (2018, "Lying and Vagueness," in the Oxford Handbook of Lying) — the semantic/pragmatic vagueness distinction underlying the Indeterminate/Imprecise categories traces to that earlier, not-yet-vaulted co-authored work.
• Both papers cite Mandel et al. (2022) for the empirical directionality-grouping result (6×6 → 3×3) that the descriptive taxonomy is built on top of — already tracked via entity-david-r-mandel but the specific 2022 paper itself is not yet independently read in this vault.

Entity candidates

• Paul Égré — person — the foundational figure Icard's own taxonomy is built against/on top of: both the 2023 and 2024 papers attribute the semantic-vs-pragmatic vagueness distinction underlying the Indeterminate/Imprecise categories to Égré and Icard's own 2018 co-authored chapter ("Lying and Vagueness," Oxford Handbook of Lying), and the 2023 acknowledgments single him out ("particularly grateful to Paul Égré for having stimulated and inspired many ideas and connections made in the present paper"). No existing entity page found in 40-entities/.
• Sherman Kent — person — first Director of the CIA's Office of National Estimates; the 2023 article compares its own probability-range table (Table 3) directly against Kent's 1964 proposed numerical encodings for intelligence quantifiers, a named historical comparison point for the whole credibility-quantification literature this taxonomy sits in.
• Benjamin Icard — person — already has an entity page (40-entities/entity-benjamin-icard.md); no new page needed, noting only for completeness since he is the subject of every claim above.