unus-testis-nullus-testis

4 notes carry this tag — 1 observation, 2 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
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