awesome-thought-experiments

Batch 10: Three Expansion Entries Reviewed

Outcome: Three entries received claim-level source audits and independent read-only post-edit checks. Quine’s Gavagai and Einstein’s Train are source_checked for their declared scopes. Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence remains partially_source_checked because the cited unpublished notebook fragment was not directly available. These labels record source traceability, not philosophical truth, consensus, or human expert review.

What changed

The three matching dataset records use date_verified 2026-11-01. No public review-status field or badge was added.

Coverage and limits

All three batch-ten entries occur in the 57-entry expansion inventory. Across all ten batches, there are 38 audit records across the repository: 35 of 57 expansion entries have audit records, while 22 have no claim-level audit record. Of those 35 expansion entries, 34 are source_checked and one—Eternal Recurrence—is partially_source_checked. Three additional records—Utility Monster, the AI Box Scenario, and the Spandrels of San Marco—are outside the expansion inventory. The batch-nine total of 35 therefore counted 32 expansion entries plus three outside the list; it did not represent 35 of 57. Batch ten adds three listed entries, bringing expansion-inventory coverage to 35 of 57.

Access remains bounded by the consulted materials. For Gavagai, the complete Word and Object book was not read; relevant passages from Quine’s 1970 paper were read in a third-party course-hosted reprint scan, while the DOI landing page at the Philosophy Documentation Center supplies metadata but gates the full text. For Einstein, the train exposition was read in Robert W. Lawson’s 1920 English translation, and the 1916 German first-edition title page was not checked; the philosophical interpretation survey is selective. For Eternal Recurrence, the published English passages are historical translations or web transcriptions, not critical editions, and the cited Nachlass fragment KSA 11:38[12] / The Will to Power §1066 was not directly accessed. No human subject-matter expert reviewed this batch.

Verification

Local state

git status confirmed the work remains local and unstaged on audit/source-review-high-risk, with HEAD at 0d26e66 and no staged diff. No commit, push, merge, release, or remote-branch change was made.