Elsaesser & Stech's 'Detecting Deception' chapter is bibliographically corroborated by an independent non-Wikipedia source, though its content remains unread

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The chapter most often cited as grounding ACH-CD in abductive reasoning — Christopher Elsaesser and Frank J. Stech, "Detecting Deception," in Alexander Kott and William M. McEneaney (eds.), Adversarial Reasoning: Computational Approaches to Reading the Opponent's Mind (CRC Press / Chapman & Hall/CRC) — has its bibliographic identity corroborated by two metadata sources independent of Wikipedia, each carrying different details. Google Books' "about" page for the anthology lists the book with the same editors and publisher, dated 2006, with a table of contents entry "Detecting Deception" (chapter numbered 2.1) beginning at page 101 and the next chapter at page 125 — consistent with the recorded 101–124 range — the 1.1–3.5 chapter numbering implying a three-part organization. The page displays no part titles and does not name the chapter's authors (audit re-fetch, 2026-08-02). Authorship and the exact page range are corroborated separately by Crossref's publisher-deposited chapter record — "Detecting Deception," Christopher Elsaesser and Frank Stech, in Adversarial Reasoning (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer & Information Science Series), Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2006, pp. 101–124, DOI 10.1201/9781420011012.ch2.1 — matching the title, authors, page range, and publisher already recorded via Wikipedia's citation in claim-no-primary-source-documents-ach-abduction-similarity. The part title ("Deception") appears in neither metadata source and remains attested only by Wikipedia's citation.

This is a definitional/bibliographic claim (what the source is, not what it argues), so Tier 3–4 corroboration clears the sourcing floor. Its value is narrow but real: through a thread dogged by Wikipedia citogenesis, it confirms the underlying citation is genuine and correctly described, even while the chapter's substantive content remains unread firsthand. The primary text returned HTTP 403, DNS failure, or login walls on every one of eight-plus retrieval routes this session (MITRE direct PDFs, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, DTIC, the Wayback capture, Google Books preview) — establishing it as structurally unreachable via open-web tooling, not merely under-searched, and echoing the structural-barrier pattern seen with other print books.

One discrepancy is unresolved: Google Books and Crossref's chapter record both give 2006, while Wikipedia's citation records 2007 — a common publisher-vs-copyright-year gap, not a contradiction about which book is meant; the metadata weight now sits on 2006.