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Citations are armor
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Claim (verbatim)
This conjecture joins the heresiology of the 1270s condemnations to plain citation counting: the density of authorities in a scholastic article tracks institutional risk, not intellectual difficulty. On topics where a determination might attract censure, such as the eternity of the world or the unicity of substantial form, a master stacks extra authorities per article as pre-emptive cover, because every authority cited is a co-defendant recruited in advance. Masters felt where the bishops were looking years before the 1277 syllabus made it explicit, and their nervousness should be legible as local citation inflation in the danger zones. If this holds, we can draw a map of perceived doctrinal danger in the 1260s directly from citation densities, independent of any narrative source.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Primary clause (verdict follows it): articles in the Aquinas citation corpus whose topics correspond to propositions condemned at Paris in 1270 or 1277 carry at least 30 percent more citation contacts per article than length-matched, genre-matched control articles from the same works. Secondary clause: the excess is concentrated in named extra-scriptural authorities rather than in scriptural contacts. Statistical test with matched controls.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
The Aquinas citation corpus cross-indexed with the published Paris condemnation lists of 1270 and 1277 (the 219 articles in Piché's edition).
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated blind by claude-fable-5 in a single Write with no file reads, web access, or database queries; all context was supplied inline in the launching prompt.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Bianchi's work on censorship and intellectual freedom at Paris documents masters' self-protective caution on doctrinally dangerous topics around the 1270/1277 condemnations. The citation-density-per-article operationalization is un-run, but the direction (defensive rhetorical behaviour concentrated in the danger zones) is established in the censorship literature.
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