QUOTE / INFERENCE / JUDGMENT
Debby’s three (plus one) provenance layers. QUOTE is verbatim only. SOURCE PARAPHRASE is compressed reportage of a source. INFERENCE is what follows from the quotes. JUDGMENT is the researcher’s call, never to be dressed as a quotation. Mixing them is how a Library page quietly overclaims.
QUOTE is verbatim: the source's words, with enough of the sentence to include the parenthetical that blocks the obvious misreading. SOURCE PARAPHRASE is compressed reportage — what the source said, in our words, labelled so it cannot pretend to be a quotation. INFERENCE is what follows from the quotes, given stated rules. JUDGMENT is the researcher's call: tags, residuals, "this does not close Gate A."
Debby uses the layers because a Library page that prints a judgment in quotation marks has already cheated. The destination contract on any ACCEPTED / REJECTED / DISPUTED contribution names the layer. Mixing them is how "Lossky says the Trinity cannot be deduced" (QUOTE) quietly becomes "so Orthodoxy already answered why-three" (a JUDGMENT the quote does not license).
The mistaken everyday reading is that these are synonyms for "I think." They are a provenance discipline. All-caps QUOTE / INFERENCE / JUDGMENT in a packet are labels, not shouting.
Sources
- Debby core (QUOTE = verbatim only); research destination contract in orthodoxy-contention-ledger.md