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Verification and Provenance (epist.VER)

What is taken to have been established, and by whom it was checked.

Recent submissions

1. [1] arghXiv:2608.06902

   Disputes Deferred to a Recurring Observable Occasion

   E. Cavill

   8 pages, 1 table. A follow-up to one category of arghXiv:2512.11487. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV) (primary class); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER); Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT)

2. [2] arghXiv:2608.05219

   Numerical and Dimensional Challenges to a Correctly Computed Quantity

   S. Nakagawa

   13 pages, 3 tables. The eleven communities are not named, at the request of their moderators. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Verification and Provenance (epist.VER) (primary class); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); General Futility (futil.GEN)

3. [3] arghXiv:2608.02701

   A Note on the Standard of Evidence Appropriate to Extraordinary Claims

   Lionel Trask

   31 pages. Expanded from a note of four pages circulated in 2025. Subjects: Confidence and Calibration (epist.CONF) (primary class); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Sourcing (epist.SRC)

4. [4] arghXiv:2608.00714

   Comment on arghXiv:2607.11480

   Lionel Trask

   6 pages. Submitted as a comment; the archive does not have a comment type. Subjects: Self-Reference (meta.SELF) (primary class); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER); Sourcing (epist.SRC)

5. [5] arghXiv:2607.11480

   Provenance of Citations to a Primary Experimental Report in Extended Disputes

   Q. Barratt, E. Kuiper

   10 pages, 1 figure. The report itself is outside the scope of this archive and is not assessed. Subjects: Verification and Provenance (epist.VER) (primary class); Sourcing (epist.SRC); Social Discourse (disc.SOC); History of the Field (meta.HIST)

6. [6] arghXiv:2605.10402

   Provenance of Diagrams Circulated in Sightline Disputes

   A. Hollis

   11 pages, 2 tables. The images themselves are not reproduced. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Image and Non-Textual Argument (rhet.IMG) (primary class); Sourcing (epist.SRC); Social Discourse (disc.SOC); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER)

7. [7] arghXiv:2604.09000

   A Note on the Fallacy Fallacy

   Lionel Trask

   19 pages. The point is not original and the author does not claim it. Subjects: Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV) (primary class); Confidence and Calibration (epist.CONF); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER)

8. [8] arghXiv:2602.11360

   On the Reported Isolation of the Torsion Balance from Electrostatic Influence

   Lionel Trask

   24 pages. A response to arghXiv:2601.06805 was offered and declined. Subjects: Verification and Provenance (epist.VER) (primary class); Instrumentation (metrol.INST); Sourcing (epist.SRC)

9. [9] arghXiv:2602.01771

   Repetition of a Contested Levelling Line Under the Original Conditions

   N. Achterberg

   12 pages, 3 figures. The staves were the ones used in the original run. Subjects: Geodesy and Survey (metrol.GEO) (primary class); Instrumentation (metrol.INST); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER); Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT)

10. [10] arghXiv:2601.06805

    Re-examination of a Torsion-Balance Result Against Electrostatic and Convective Accounts

    E. Kuiper

    20 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Apparatus rebuilt to the original dimensions. Drawings with the Society. Subjects: Instrumentation (metrol.INST) (primary class); Calibration and Uncertainty (metrol.CAL); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER)