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question answered 2026-08-07

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-2023-taxonomy-nine-honesty-truth-message-types rests on a 3×3 Honesty×Truth taxonomy (nine named message types: information, misinformation, error-avoidance, omission, dissimulation, half-truth, subjective lie, objective lie, mixed) that the vault has now read at one remove — reproduced as Table 6 in Benjamin Icard's 2024 arXiv paper, itself citing his own earlier article. The 2023 original has not been fetched or read directly:

Icard, B. (2023). "Facts versus interpretations in intelligence: A descriptive taxonomy for information evaluation." Intellectica, 78, 89–105.

What I'd need to answer it: the Intellectica 78 article itself (likely French-language venue; check for an English preprint or the author's own site/HAL repository), read directly, to confirm the nine category names, their definitions, and the qualitative best-to-worst ranking match the 2024 paper's reproduction exactly — self-citation is low-risk but not zero-risk (a table can silently compress or reorder its own source across a later paper).

Candidate next move: search HAL (French national preprint repository) and Icard's institutional page (LIP6 Sorbonne Université / Institut Jean-Nicod) for an open-access copy; Intellectica is a French humanities journal and may not be behind a standard paywall.

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