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single-witness

27 notes carry this tag — 2 mocs, 10 claims, 4 observations, 2 questions, 8 captures, 1 concept. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does the Warden's 'one witness is not enough' doctrine name the same rule as the vault's independent_roots field, or are the two genuinely distinct?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-19 · law-of-evidence, corroboration, single-witness, independent-roots, vault-epistemology
• The vault's `independent_roots` field is a provenance-collapsing bookkeeping measurement with two narrow enforcement points, not a categorical bar on recording a single-root claim
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-19 · vault-epistemology, independent-roots, provenance, corroboration, single-witness
• US patent law's corroboration requirement is internally split between a 1953 ruling that permits uncorroborated testimony and a 2011 ruling that forbids it, both still carried in the current MPEP without reconciliation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-19 · patent-law, priority-disputes, corroboration, single-witness, law-of-evidence
• Stephen Senn's 2009 double-counting paper names the root-collapsing problem `independent_roots` formalizes from statistics, an independent tradition from witness-sufficiency law that reaches for its own, different courtroom analogy
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-19 · meta-analysis, double-counting, corroboration, single-witness, citogenesis
• MOC: One witness is not enough — the corroboration floor, from Roman law to priority disputes
  topic map 2026-10-18 · moc, law-of-evidence, legal-history, single-witness, corroboration
• Isaacs's recorded regret in Pesch & Plail's 'missed opportunities' survey is over dismissing his own 'tenet of transition' — not the 1963 Pontryagin near-miss
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-17 · rufus-isaacs, lev-pontryagin, priority-dispute, single-witness, documentary-source-criticism
• Unus testis, nullus testis is Roman and canon law's rule that one uncorroborated witness cannot establish a fact
  note seedling Tier 4 2026-10-17 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, testimony, single-witness
• The 1981 testimony-convergence and the Werbos single-witness gap are a false friend at the mechanism level but share the lone-witness evidentiary floor one level up
  observation seedling Tier 4 2026-10-17 · cross-domain-bridge, false-friend, testimony, oral-history, cognitive-psychology
• Does any record independent of Isaacs's own 1965 preface corroborate the 'few days' margin by which he says he missed Pontryagin's book?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-10-07 · rufus-isaacs, lev-pontryagin, priority-dispute, single-witness, documentary-source-criticism
• Isaacs's 'few days' near-miss claim against Pontryagin is single-witness self-testimony, with no independent corroboration located
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-06 · rufus-isaacs, lev-pontryagin, priority-dispute, single-witness, documentary-source-criticism
• Does any record independent of Isaacs's own 1965 preface corroborate the 'few days' margin by which he says he missed Pontryagin's book?
  question open 2026-10-06 · rufus-isaacs, lev-pontryagin, priority-dispute, single-witness, archival-research
• The 1981 testimony-convergence and Werbos's single-witness gap are a false friend at the mechanism level — but both independently instantiate the unus testis, nullus testis lone-witness doctrine, a link the vault hadn't made
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-10-05 · bipartite-bridge, false-friend, testimony, oral-history, cognitive-psychology
• The Seales/Mocella rival-citation claim and the Werbos TSP-manual document-identity bridge are an embedding false friend — redundant citation versus sole-witness citation, not a shared mechanism
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-05 · bipartite-bridge, embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, brent-seales, vito-mocella
• Isaacs's 1965 near-miss-by-days priority claim is an unlinked member of the vault's existing diplomatics cluster — the mechanism behind the Werbos/Isaacs 0.85 cosine pairing
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-03 · bipartite-bridge, rufus-isaacs, paul-werbos, lev-pontryagin, jean-mabillon
• Seales/Mocella and the Werbos TSP-manual/gas-market bridge are an embedding false friend — redundant rival-citation vs. sole-witness document-identity are different mechanisms
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-02 · bipartite-bridge, embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, brent-seales, vito-mocella
• Werbos's 1988 print account is a second, earlier-dated attestation of the TSP manual's role — narrowing but not closing the single-witness gap on the manual's content
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-29 · paul-werbos, tsp-manual, backpropagation, history-of-ml, sourcing
• MOC: Testimony is not a record — Werbos's priority narrative, examined as documents
  topic map 2026-09-29 · moc, werbos, backpropagation, diplomatics, single-witness
• A 1972 ASPR newsletter corroborates Ingo Swann's 1971–72 ASPR research program but never uses the term "remote viewing"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-19 · cold-war-science, parapsychology, remote-viewing, stargate, aspr
• Is there a contemporaneous (1971-72) record independently corroborating Ingo Swann's account of proposing "remote viewing" on December 8, 1971?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-16 · cold-war-science, parapsychology, remote-viewing, stargate, aspr
• Ingo Swann's own memoir credits himself, not the SRI physicists, with proposing the term "remote viewing" after a December 1971 ASPR experiment
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-15 · cold-war-science, parapsychology, remote-viewing, stargate, contested-credit
• Is there a contemporaneous (1971-72) record independently corroborating Ingo Swann's account of proposing "remote viewing" on December 8, 1971?
  question open 2026-09-15 · remote-viewing, stargate, priority-dispute, cold-war-science, single-witness
• Werbos's DOCSUB/thesis document-identity claim is a third leg of the single June 1993 oral-history cluster — and the only leg with independent corroboration
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · werbos, docsub, darpa, backpropagation, oral-history
• What genuinely connects Werbos's two missing-document claims and the DOCSUB/RHW-thesis document-identity claim? The same 1993 sitting, with one leg independently corroborated
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-19 · werbos, docsub, darpa, backpropagation, oral-history
• Werbos's two "missing document" claims — the lost 1968 Cybernetica paper and the blocked 1978 DARPA report — trace to a single June 1993 oral-history sitting, not two independent corroborations
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · werbos, backpropagation, oral-history, single-witness, sourcing
• Werbos's two 'missing backpropagation document' claims — the lost 1968 paper and the blocked 1978 DARPA report — trace to the same single 1993 interview
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-01 · werbos, backpropagation, oral-history, single-witness, sourcing
• Schmidhuber's 'controllers-as-weights' framing for Dreyfus 1973 is confirmed only in Schmidhuber's own words, on two of his own venues
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-20 · dreyfus, schmidhuber, backpropagation, optimal-control, history-of-ml
• Schmidhuber's "Dreyfus 1973" backprop-lineage link is uncorroborated by Dreyfus himself — both of Dreyfus's own retrospectives credit his 1962 paper and never cite 1973
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-07 · dreyfus, schmidhuber, backpropagation, optimal-control, history-of-ml