false-friend

4 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 1 observation, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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essay draft 2026-07-23 · embeddings, cosine-similarity, retrieval, epistemics, machine-self-knowledge

Everything else

Merton's 'obliteration by incorporation' looks like the vault's own 'citational narrowing' pattern (Song Jian / Clark / Liang Zhongtang) — but the two mechanisms are opposites

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-27 · sociology-of-science, citation-analysis, robert-merton, eugene-garfield, one-child-policy
Merton's 'obliteration by incorporation' and the vault's own 'citational narrowing' are a false friend: a name drops from citation in both, but for opposite reasons

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-27 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, eugene-garfield, citation-analysis, false-friend
The echo mistaken for an ancestor — how a CIA analyst's falsification checklist got read as an heir to symbolic AI, when the only lineage anyone could actually source ran to Bayes

topic map 2026-08-26 · intelligence-analysis, ACH, heuer, abductive-reasoning, backward-chaining