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observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31

Three of Fable's six attribution-drift mechanisms — name-magnetism, citation-vacuum-filling, retrospective relabel — have no exact-match term in philosophy-of-science or citation-analysis literature

attribution-driftcitation-analysisname-magnetismretrospective-relabelhalo-effectprestige-biaswhig-historyargument-from-silenceunverified-negativefable-hook

[unverified -- could not confirm or deny after search] for all three mechanisms below; each near-miss imports a different scope or mechanism than the vault's target, the same shape as the vault's prior search for its own bridge-category term and the 2026-10-29 search for a term spanning surface-match-without-mechanism-identity.

Name-magnetism — the vault's own documented instance is Denker et al.'s 1988 hand-designed-kernel paper drifting onto LeCun's name. The closest located analog is "prestige bias" / "the halo effect" / "status bias" in peer-review literature: Frachtenberg & McConville (2022) write, "This bias is also known as 'the halo effect,' 'status bias,' or 'prestige bias.'" But that literature describes a famous name biasing a reviewer's evaluation of a new, unpublished submission — not an existing, already-published finding drifting in retrospect onto a more famous name in the same area. Direction and timing differ; the term doesn't transfer cleanly.

Citation-vacuum-filling — no literature source using this phrase or an exact synonym was located. The nearest neighbor is Greenberg's "amplification" (claim-greenberg-2009-citation-transmutation-names-hedge-erosion-mechanism), but amplification describes citing uninvolved review papers to pad a belief system, not a specific unclaimed credit-gap filled by a plausible-but-unverified reference, as in RHW 1986's four-reference list.

Retrospective relabel — the vault's own instance is the "structural" label bolted onto Minsky 1961. The nearest neighbors are historiographic terms for anachronism — Whig history, presentism, Helge Kragh's "anachronical history of science" — already a live vocabulary in this vault's own myth-ledger work — but these describe a historian narrating the past as a march toward the present, not a specific later technical term bolted onto an earlier text's citation record. No source using the vault's specific sense — a later-coined qualifier retroactively attached to a primary that never used it — was located.

Source

Tier 1 Eitan Frachtenberg and Kelly S. McConville 2022-02-25
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8880855/
“This bias is also known as "the halo effect," "status bias," or "prestige bias," the term we use in this paper.”
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