CRITIC_REPORT — Montaigne KB
Verdict: ACCEPT
Zero CRITICAL, zero MAJOR findings. One MINOR finding (below), fixed in Pass 2.
Gate post-fix: 126/126 verbatim matches, 277/277 wikilinks resolved, 0 failures.
Scope Audited
| Layer | Files | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Concepts | 22 | In-context quote verification (30+ probed) + 2 independent agent sweeps |
| Principles | 12 | Full sweep (independent agent: all 11/11 clean; 12th confirmed by main pass) |
| Chains | 5 | Step-by-step quote + logic trace |
| Meta files | 6 (MOC, TERMINOLOGY, CORPUS_BOUNDARY, QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY, _instructions, SOURCE_MANIFEST) | Voice, scope, attribution |
| Gate | scripts/verify_quotes.py | Mechanical re-run post-fix |
Critical Findings
None.
Major Findings
None.
Minor Findings
1. concepts/raznoobrazie-opyta.md:48 — musical-term precision drift
Source (iii13_of_experience_pg3600.txt:1132):
sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, sprightly and solemn
Pass-1 translation rendered "sharp and flat" as «высоких и низких» (pitch register: high/low). Musically, "sharp and flat" means диез/бемоль — chromatic pitch alteration, not register height.
Fix applied in Pass 2: «высоких и низких» → «диезов и бемолей».
No philosophical distortion; Montaigne's point (life as harmony of contraries) is intact throughout. Severity: MINOR. Confidence: HIGH.
What Was Confirmed
Quote authenticity (verbatim gate): 126 blockquotes verified as literal substrings of their cited corpus unit files. Zero fabricated quotes.
Voice discipline: No Latin verse, no reported authority, and no bracketed aside presented as Montaigne's first-person thesis. Highest-risk sites explicitly probed:
- I.19 Cicero title-motto: flagged in QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY, never used as evidence blockquote.
- II.12 Seneca "raise himself above humanity": notes quote only Montaigne's rebuttal; Seneca's line excluded.
- Demades anecdote: attribution «как говорил Демад» preserved in every instance.
Anti-flattening: The deliberate self-contradiction (II.19 death-focus → III.13 life-focus drift) is preserved in nauchitsya-umirat.md, uchis-umirat-chtoby-byt-svobodnym.md, the uchitsya-umirat-uchitsya-zhit chain, and the priznavay-protivorechie keystone principle. Skepticism is not caricatured as "there is no truth" — the caveat «referring myself to the common and accepted beliefs» (III.2, verified) is load-bearing.
Fideist caveat: II.12's closing fideist passage preserved in full in chto-ya-znayu.md and _instructions.md. Debate-agent cannot paper over it.
Russian translations (перевод наш): ~20 renderings verified against Cotton source + French arbiter where applicable. All faithful within the one-MINOR-fixed set.
Principle status claims: All 12 «Статус: подтверждено» verified against direct Montaigne formulations.
Wikilink graph: 277 links across 39 notes, 0 unresolved before CRITIC_REPORT.md existed. After this file lands, the two [[CRITIC_REPORT]] references in MOC.md and QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY.md resolve, keeping the count at 0.
Pre-commitment Predictions vs. Actual
| Predicted failure mode | Found? |
|---|---|
| Latin/authority quote as Montaigne voice | No |
| Death-theme flattening | No |
| Caricatured skepticism ("there is no truth") | No |
| Russian translation drift | One MINOR instance (fixed) |
| Principle overclaim in «подтверждено» | No |
| Essay-number / frontmatter error | No |
Escalation criteria (any CRITICAL / 3+ MAJOR / systemic pattern) were not met. Review stayed in THOROUGH mode throughout.
Pass 2 Changes
concepts/raznoobrazie-opyta.md:48: «высоких и низких» → «диезов и бемолей»- This file (
CRITIC_REPORT.md) created — closes two dangling wikilinks.
Gate Result (post Pass 2)
notes: 39 (+1 this file = 40 at gate next run)
blockquotes: 126, verbatim failures: 0
wikilinks: 277 (+2 resolved by this file), unresolved: 0
The gate was green before this file; creating it adds 0 new blockquotes and resolves the two existing CRITIC_REPORT forward-references.