Elsaesser & Stech's 'Detecting Deception' chapter is bibliographically corroborated by an independent non-Wikipedia source, though its content remains unread
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 a source independent of Wikipedia. Google Books' "about" page for the anthology lists the book with the same editors and publisher, organized into three parts, with "Detecting Deception" at pages 101–124 under Part 2 ("Deception") — matching the title, authors, page range, editors, and publisher already recorded via Wikipedia's citation in claim-no-primary-source-documents-ach-abduction-similarity.
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 records the copyright year as 2006, while Wikipedia's citation records 2007 — a common publisher-vs-copyright-year gap, not a contradiction about which book is meant.
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“paraphrase only — Tier-4 bibliographic metadata page; no exact quote recorded at capture (definitional/bibliographic floor)”
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