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Commentary sharpens the address
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Claim (verbatim)
This conjecture claims citation precision is a by-product of the citer's own lecturing: the works of Aristotle that Aquinas formally commented get cited elsewhere in his corpus with numbered book-and-chapter addresses, while uncommented works get the vague appeal to the Philosopher. The join is between the lecture hall and the reference apparatus: preparing a commentary built a personal address book for that text, and precision elsewhere is its residue, not a trait of scholarly temperament. Masters had no other way to hold a numbered map of a long text in mind except by having walked it lectio by lectio. If this holds, citation-precision profiles become an instrument for detecting which texts any scholastic author actually taught, including lost or disputed lecture activity across the whole scholastic corpus.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Primary clause (verdict follows it): in the Aquinas citation corpus, the share of Aristotle contacts carrying a numbered locus is significantly higher for the works Aquinas commented than for those he did not, controlling for each work's total contact volume. Secondary clause: for commented works, locus precision rises in citations datable after the commentary's composition.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
The Aquinas citation corpus locus-precision fields, against the established list and chronology of his Aristotle commentaries.
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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
Leonine-tradition scholarship (Gauthier; the Moerbeke-dating literature) already uses the character of Aquinas's Aristotle citations to date works and documents that his commentary activity and new translations reshaped how he cited each text. The commented-vs-uncommented locus-precision contrast is un-run, but the mechanism (lectio-by-lectio work building his reference apparatus) is anticipated by this literature.
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