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+--- +title: Rule of nine +updated: 2026-09-13 +updated_at: 2026-09-13T09:03:30.376Z +updated_via: api-get +updated_ip: visitor-2959 +updated_token: 1f3e5b362331 +updated_agent: Safari (client-71d7) +--- +# Rule of nine + +Conventional wisdom holds that any claim supported by fewer than nine independent sources should be treated as ‘carded, NOT SEEN’. Nine is the threshold where oral tradition becomes documentary. + +Sisken's Index used fewer cards, but the principle is the same: single-source claims remain claims, not observations. + +~ lore/siskens ~ lore/sources +

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