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herbert-austin-aikins

23 notes carry this tag — 15 claims, 2 questions, 5 captures, 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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  the jingle fits
  essay drafting 2026-10-04 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, edward-thorndike, citation-provenance, psychometrics

Everything else

• Aikins's 1902 index and full text contain no "Machine," "Boole," "Piano," or "Mechanical" entries tied to Jevons — an absence that, per Cali's review and an independent 2026-10-12 re-sweep, holds across the captured text, not just the index
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, logic-piano, argument-from-silence, quote-provenance
• Aikins's two page-cited engagements with Jevons both land inside the traditional-syllogism block of Elementary Lessons in Logic; the Logic Piano sits two thematic blocks later, under a heading Jevons himself calls "recent"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, logic-piano, history-of-logic, bibliography
• Aikins's silence on Jevons's Logic Piano is weak on McGrew's *record* term, not *notice* — the mirror image of Isaacs's P-257 silence, and a third failure mode for the hub
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · argument-from-silence, mcgrew, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, logic-piano
• Jevons's own pedagogical textbook, Elementary Lessons in Logic, describes the Logic Piano in Lesson XXIII (pp.191–201) — sixty to seventy pages past the lessons Aikins quotes to the page
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, logic-piano, history-of-logic, quote-provenance
• Jevons's own pedagogical logic textbook describes the Logic Piano; Aikins (1902), who quotes that same textbook by page number while rejecting rule-following, never engages with the machine — scope mismatch within one book, not chronological irrelevance
  capture promoted 2026-10-07 · jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, logic-piano, argument-from-silence, mcgrew
• Which of Jevons's own logic texts supplies the 'p. 82'/'p. 83' conversion rules and the eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' Aikins quotes in his 1902 Principles of Logic?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, conversion, quote-provenance
• The 1881 printing's own table of contents independently fixes Elementary Lessons in Logic's pagination (Lesson X at p.81, Lesson XV at p.126), consistent with the page numbers Aikins cites in 1902
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, quote-provenance, history-of-logic, bibliography
• Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic, Lesson X (pp.81–87), is the text behind Aikins's "Jevons, p. 82" and "Jevons, p. 83" conversion-rule citations
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, conversion, quote-provenance
• Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic, Lesson XV, "The Rules of the Syllogism" (pp.126–131), is the text behind the eight numbered rules Aikins reproduces in his Ch. XVI footnote
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, quote-provenance, history-of-logic
• Aikins's own 1902 syllogism-rule chapters (Ch. XI, XVI) quote and contest Jevons's stated rules directly, independent of the jingle-fallacy chapter
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance
• In Chapter XI of his 1902 Principles of Logic, Aikins quotes Jevons's stated conversion rules verbatim with page citations, then argues in his own words that no such rule can be followed 'blindly'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, conversion
• In Chapter XVI of his 1902 Principles of Logic, Aikins reproduces Jevons's eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' verbatim in a footnote, then dismisses mechanical rule-following as inferior to his own interpretive method
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance
• Aikins's 1902 Preface states, before any chapter begins, that his deductive-logic treatment deliberately omits 'the traditional rules of the syllogism' in favor of his own stated 'principles'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, history-of-logic
• Which of Jevons's own logic texts supplies the 'p. 82'/'p. 83' conversion rules and the eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' Aikins quotes in his 1902 Principles of Logic?
  question answered 2026-09-30 · herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance, history-of-logic
• A full read of Aikins's 1902 Principles of Logic finds the word "jingle" confined to one contiguous passage of Chapter XVIII (pp.193–195, seven occurrences), with the book's own index pointing at the naming page, 194
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, quote-provenance, full-text-read, scope
• Aikins in 1902 defines the "jingle" fallacy as a habit-triggered reflex from surface word-pattern, not a deliberate reasoning error
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, mechanism, reflex, habit
• Aikins, in Chapter XVIII of his 1902 Principles of Logic, proposes naming a class of fallacies "the... jingle Fallacies" — in his own voice, inside the one passage (pp.193–195) that holds all the book's uses of the word
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, quote-provenance, citation-provenance
• Does the word "jingle" appear anywhere in Aikins's 1902 Principles of Logic outside the read Ch. II passage?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-18 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, quote-provenance, verification, edward-thorndike
• Thorndike's 1904 primary text attributes the 'jingle' fallacy to 'Professor Aikins,' not to himself — and Aikins's own 1902 book doesn't use the word in the matching passage
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-17 · jingle-fallacy, edward-thorndike, herbert-austin-aikins, psychometrics, citation-provenance
• Aikins's 1902 chapter on "paronymous terms" discusses the jingle-fallacy phenomenon at length without using the word "jingle," in the portion read
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-17 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, quote-provenance, partial-read
• Thorndike's 1904 primary text attributes the "jingle" fallacy to "Professor Aikins," not to himself
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-17 · jingle-fallacy, edward-thorndike, herbert-austin-aikins, psychometrics, citation-provenance
• Does the word "jingle" appear anywhere in Aikins's 1902 Principles of Logic outside the read Ch. II passage?
  question answered 2026-09-17 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, quote-provenance, verification