Phase 6 — Citation Integrity Spot-Check (2026-05-16)
Run framing. Fourteenth full audit, subsequent-run mode. Sample size: 16 citations across 6 wiki pages plus 2 audit-produced citations from this run's Phase 3 / Phase 4 output. Dispatched in 8 parallel citation-verifier subagent invocations under Opus. All 8 returned cleanly within ~30-50 s each.
Sampling rationale. Per AUDIT_PLAN R3 / M4, sample size of 16 citations is ~3-4% of the estimated 400-600 citations in the wiki (now grown to ~600+ at 480 pages). The sample is biased toward:
- Audit-produced citations from this run (4 of 16 = 25%, slightly above the ~20% target) —
wiki/motifs.mdPhase 3 updates (4) +wiki/concepts/antithetic-critique-of-sartre.mdPhase 4 update (2) = 6, but 2 from antithetic-critique are pre-existing → 4 audit-produced; - New-source attestations from the three 2026-05-09/05-16 ingests (10 of 16) — testing whether the ingest workflow correctly traces extraction-note → raw chains.
- High-stakes thesis-bearing citations (sedimentation/écart/coherent-deformation/Vinteuil/Sartre-antithetic-critique) where citation drift would propagate into Phase 8 claim entries.
Note on biased sampling (R3 reminder). A clean biased sample is evidence that fabrications are not concentrated at the highest-risk surfaces; it is not certification that the unsampled ~96% of citations are fabrication-free. State as such in any downstream report.
Results
Aggregate: 16 PASS / 0 UNCERTAIN / 0 FAIL.
| # | Citation | Source | Page | Verdict | Subagent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ILUL Appendix [165] Stendhal-naturalness parenthetical | ILUL 2026 | antithetic-critique-of-sartre (audit-produced) | PASS | a49e39b07c31e3ed9 |
| 2 | ILUL Appendix [168]v a-focalism coinage | ILUL 2026 | antithetic-critique-of-sartre (audit-produced) | PASS | a49e39b07c31e3ed9 |
| 3 | PbP [135(10)] cardinal écart-thesis | PbP 2020 | motifs.md écart entry (audit-tracked) | PASS | a750ab5aa0f135ac5 |
| 4 | PbP [26v(36)] marginal "le signe = écart" | PbP 2020 | motifs.md écart entry (audit-tracked) | PASS | a750ab5aa0f135ac5 |
| 5 | PbP [88(6)] Traditionnalité / oubli des origines | PbP 2020 | motifs.md sedimentation entry | PASS | a10fb5c04c9082430 |
| 6 | PbP [128(7)]–[136(11)] Stiftung handoff to I&P | PbP 2020 | motifs.md sedimentation entry | PASS | a10fb5c04c9082430 |
| 7 | S&NS p. 209 "each of our perceptions is an act of faith" | SnS 1948 | perceptual-faith | PASS | a10add56543d29f92 |
| 8 | S&NS p. 95 footnote "passage of perceptual faith into explicit truth" | SnS 1948 | perceptual-faith | PASS (minor) | a10add56543d29f92 |
| 9 | S&NS Battle p. 72 "too exclusively antithetic" | SnS 1948 | antithetic-critique-of-sartre | PASS | a1f463b63d33f09b3 |
| 10 | S&NS Battle p. 75 "theory of passivity" | SnS 1948 | antithetic-critique-of-sartre | PASS | a1f463b63d33f09b3 |
| 11 | PbP [110] "La musique est «idées»" Vinteuil | PbP 2020 | sensible-ideas | PASS | a605c1a207d5ba638 |
| 12 | PbP [108v(9)] Combray-Martinville-Vinteuil equivalence | PbP 2020 | sensible-ideas | PASS | a605c1a207d5ba638 |
| 13 | S&NS Marxism p. 132 "concrete Phenomenology of Mind" | SnS 1948 | motifs.md Capital entry | PASS | a7dd40f145c4fabc2 |
| 14 | S&NS Marxism p. 133 "militant philosophy intersubjectivity" | SnS 1948 | motifs.md Capital entry | PASS | a7dd40f145c4fabc2 |
| 15 | ILUL L6 [70] marginal "coherent deformation" | ILUL 2026 | motifs.md coherent-deformation entry (audit-produced) | PASS | aa155666581c1ce06 |
| 16 | ILUL CS [9] "language machine constructed with old signs" | ILUL 2026 | motifs.md coherent-deformation entry (audit-produced) | PASS | aa155666581c1ce06 |
Faul fabrication-pattern check
Re-ran the explicit Faul fabrication-pattern search (per 13th-run baseline):
grep -rliE 'Painter.s Courage|JBSP 55[: ]2|\bFaul\b.*2024|Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.*2024' wiki/
No hits. The fabrication pattern remains absent from the wiki post-2026-05-09 inheritance.
Minor accuracy note (sub-failure level)
Citation #8 (perceptual-faith.md → S&NS p. 95 footnote) verifies as PASS at the content level but contains a minor attribution inaccuracy in the wiki body: the page calls it "the 1947 editor's footnote in 'The Metaphysical in Man'", but the footnote is MP's own footnote with a bracketed editorial gloss appended. The substantive citation (the projection forward to "the Origin of Truth" naming "the passage of perceptual faith into explicit truth as we encounter it on the level of language, concept, and the cultural world") is verbatim accurate and properly anchored at extraction-note line 327 / raw line 1083. The misattribution does not change the genealogical claim's force (it slightly strengthens it: MP himself, not the editor, is the projecting voice).
Action: queue a single-character correction in wiki/concepts/perceptual-faith.md § "The 1946–47 Published Bridge" — change "the 1947 editor's footnote" to "the 1947 footnote (MP's own, with a later editorial gloss)" or similar. This is a Phase 7 confidence-recalibration-adjacent fix; defer to Phase 7 or to next audit. Not a fabrication risk.
Aggregate findings
- No fabrications found. 16-citation biased sample is fabrication-free.
- Audit-produced citations verify cleanly. The 4 citations introduced by this run's Phase 3 + Phase 4 audit work (motifs.md coherent-deformation 2026-05-16 update; antithetic-critique-of-sartre §"The 1953 ILUL Anchor") all trace to extraction-note Pass 2c Evidence anchors plus verified raw locations. The audit-traceability rule (CLAUDE.md General Rule 16, S2 extension to audit-produced content) is being met by this run.
- New-source ingest-trace chains are intact. The PbP / ILUL / SnS extraction notes properly bookkeep the chain from anchor-site to raw-source location, with extraction-note Pass 2c Evidence sections naming the loci. No drift detected between Pass 2c Evidence content and the corresponding raw passages.
- Minor accuracy fix queued (perceptual-faith.md attribution detail).
Stop conditions
None tripped. Proceed to Phase 7.
Per the goal constraint #4, a FAIL verdict from any citation-verifier in Phase 6 triggers AUDIT-PIPELINE-HALTED. No FAIL surfaced. The pipeline continues.
Outputs
- This report (
wiki/.audit/citation-integrity-2026-05-16.md) - 1 minor accuracy fix queued for next sweep (perceptual-faith.md attribution)
- 0 corrective fixes urgent
- Faul fabrication-pattern: re-verified absent
- Log entry: deferred to run close