testimony

15 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 5 claims, 2 observations, 2 questions, 4 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.

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
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
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
Neisser coined 'repisodic' memory in his 1981 John Dean paper, defining it as neither 'semantic' nor 'episodic' in Tulving's sense

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · cognitive-psychology, memory, testimony, reconstructive-memory, repisodic-memory
Repisodic memory constructs one apparent episode out of a repeated series of events — distinct from remembering a single episode's gist

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · cognitive-psychology, memory, testimony, reconstructive-memory, repisodic-memory
Verify against Neisser's 1981 primary text: the John Dean findings and the 'repisodic' coinage

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-21 · cognitive-psychology, memory, testimony, reconstructive-memory, watergate
Neisser checked John Dean's Watergate testimony against the Nixon tapes and found the details wrong but the gist right — coining 'repisodic' memory

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · cognitive-psychology, memory, testimony, reconstructive-memory, ecological-validity
Portelli found Terni workers' oral memory relocated Luigi Trastulli's 1949 killing to 1953 — and argued the error was itself the finding

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · oral-history, historiography, memory, testimony, collective-memory
In 1981 an oral historian and a cognitive psychologist independently concluded that testimony can be wrong in its details yet accurate in its deeper shape

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · cross-domain-bridge, memory, testimony, oral-history, cognitive-psychology
Verify against Neisser's 1981 primary text: the John Dean findings and the 'repisodic' coinage

question answered 2026-07-11 · cognitive-psychology, memory, testimony, source-verification, neisser
Verify against Portelli's primary text: the 1949→1953 date displacement in the Trastulli oral testimonies and the exact quote

question answered 2026-07-11 · oral-history, memory, testimony, source-verification, portelli
Before statistics, three legal-and-archival traditions each invented their own answer to 'how much evidence is enough' — and one of them literally weighed a witness the same as a document

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · archival-science, law-of-evidence, legal-history, historiography, testimony
Two 1981 papers, two unrelated fields: an oral historian and a cognitive psychologist both concluded that testimony's factual errors don't erase its deeper accuracy

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · oral-history, cognitive-psychology, memory, historiography, testimony
Medieval Roman-canon law rated a single eyewitness and a private document as equal 'half-proofs,' each insufficient alone

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, testimony, medieval-law