external-criticism

6 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 2 observations, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Kent's Writing History (1941) builds Chapter I's working vocabulary of historical criticism directly on Bernheim's named four-step schema

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-06 · sherman-kent, bernheim, historical-method, external-criticism, internal-criticism
Langlois & Seignobos (1898) name diplomatics as the body of doctrine for authenticating charters, classing it among the auxiliary sciences feeding External Criticism

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-03 · diplomatics, historical-method, external-criticism, mabillon, langlois-seignobos
Diplomatics and the two-axis source model answer the same trust problem with opposite prescriptions — diplomatics discards the reliability axis as its founding fix, where intelligence doctrine and RAG cannot keep it from leaking

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-10-03 · bridge-investigation, diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, intelligence-tradecraft, RAG
Langlois & Seignobos's 1898 External/Internal Criticism split names the same two-axis architecture as the Admiralty Code and RAG, with Mabillon's diplomatics as its authenticity-axis toolkit

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-02 · bridge-investigation, diplomatics, historical-method, intelligence-tradecraft, RAG
What actually connects the intelligence/RAG two-axis-source-model observation and the Gates-Mabillon diplomatics observation (cosine 0.85, unlinked)

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-21 · bridge-investigation, diplomatics, quellenkritik, historical-method, source-criticism
What actually connects the Gates/Mabillon diplomatics-cluster note and the intelligence-doctrine/RAG two-axis note (cosine 0.85, unlinked)

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-19 · bridge-investigation, diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, historiography, intelligence-tradecraft