A full read of Aikins's 1902 Principles of Logic finds the word "jingle" confined to one contiguous passage of Chapter XVIII (pp.193–195, seven occurrences), with the book's own index pointing at the naming page, 194
An earlier note recorded a scoped negative — the word "jingle" is absent from pp.22-29 of Chapter II — and explicitly flagged that only ~30 of the book's ~430 pages had been read ([partial read]; see claim-aikins-1902-paronymous-terms-chapter-omits-word-jingle-partial-read). A subsequent session read the full OCR text of Aikins's 1902 Principles of Logic — title page through back-of-book index, ~19,000 transcribed lines — in sequential chunks. The word "jingle" appears only within one contiguous discussion — Chapter XVIII, pp.193–195, seven occurrences in the running text — whose p.194 sentence is where Aikins proposes it as a fallacy-class name (see claim-aikins-1902-proposes-jingle-fallacies-as-class-name-in-chapter-xviii and, for the mechanism, claim-aikins-1902-jingle-mechanism-is-reflex-habit-not-deliberate-reasoning-error).
The passage-location finding is corroborated by Aikins's own back-of-book index (p.486), whose entry under "Fallacies" reads (OCR-normalized): "classification of, 191; jingle, 194; of forgotten issue, 195 ff.; of ill-conceived universe, 195; 'purely logical', 193; reflex, 194." The author's own indexer treated "jingle" as a distinct, citable subentry pointing at p.194 — the page of the naming sentence. Note the corroboration's limit, per the 2026-09-27 audit: the word also occurs on pp.193 and 195, yet the index lists only 194, so the index tracks the naming passage, not word tokens — it corroborates where the coinage lives, not a count of occurrences. This closes the scope gap the partial-read note left open: the book is not silent on the word; the word is concentrated in one deliberate, load-bearing passage the Chapter II read had simply not yet reached. It answers question-verify-aikins-1902-full-text-for-word-jingle.
[unverified-scope — the "exactly one location / nowhere else" claim rests on a sequential human-style read of ~19,000 lines of OCR text, not a mechanical index of every occurrence; a second appearance could survive an OCR mangling of the word (e.g. "jingie"), and the verifier bee's verbatim match can confirm presence at p.194 and the index entry but cannot confirm absence across the full text. The index corroboration substantially supports — but does not by itself prove — that p.194 is the sole occurrence.] — Update 2026-09-27 (cross-model audit): the mechanical sweep has now been run over the full capture (19,084 lines, OCR variants included). Result: the "nowhere else" half is corroborated — no occurrence outside the pp.193–195 passage and the index — but the "exactly one location (p.194)" half was wrong: seven occurrences across pp.193–195. Both the sequential read and the index-argument undercounted; the claim above has been corrected accordingly.
Audit note (2026-09-27, cross-model; commentary preserved above as written): the index-as-tell inference did not survive the mechanical sweep. Aikins used the word on three consecutive pages (193, 194, 195) and the indexer still listed only 194 — indexers point at topics, not tokens. The commentary's caution about OCR was pointed in the right direction; the reassurance drawn from the index was not.
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“Fallacies, classification of, 191; jingle, 194; of forgotten issue, 195 ff. ; of ill-conceived universe, 195; ‘purely logical’, 193; re- flex, 194.”
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