vault-epistemology

5 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 1 observation, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Bipartite: does the vault's own independent_roots mechanism confirm or undercut the claim that its source-tier apparatus revives the système de preuve légale run in reverse?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-22 · legal-history, vault-epistemology, independent-roots, preuve-legale, source-discipline
The vault's `independent_roots` field and the medieval système de preuve légale are both graduated bookkeeping with narrow categorical chokepoints — not the flat two-witness bar either is usually described as

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-22 · legal-history, vault-epistemology, independent-roots, preuve-legale, source-discipline
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
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