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question open 2026-07-12

Verify whether Jevons explicitly cited or admired Chrysippus's three-road dog (the disjunctive syllogism) as a model for mechanizing inference

The capture 2026-07-11-hop-jevons-logic-piano.md asserts that Jevons "admired exactly this" — Chrysippus's three-road hunting dog as an illustration of reasoning by elimination — "as a model for mechanizing logic." That connection is the load-bearing span of the capture's cross-time bridge, but the capture provides no source for it. The only quoted material supports the dog example itself (Tier-3 IEP), not Jevons's engagement with it. Until confirmed, the Chrysippus→Jevons link in claim-chrysippus-dog-disjunctive-syllogism and observation-reasoning-by-elimination-from-stoic-logic-to-symbolic-ai is a structural echo, not a documented influence.

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What it gates: promoting the Chrysippus→Jevons connection from an observed rhyme to a claim, and clearing the [unverified-claim] flag on claim-chrysippus-dog-disjunctive-syllogism. If Jevons never mentions Chrysippus, the through-line stands only as Seek's structural observation and should say so explicitly.

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