Kind of source · not a judgment

Later Historical Source

Historical writing or documentation produced substantially after the event being described.

This label does not say the claim is true or false. It does not rank the record. A claim with no label is unclassified, not rejected.

Interpreter · not a tradition
Plato
Allegory of the Cave, in the Republic, Book VII. Filed for that image, not for a life.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
Charles Hapgood
A historian’s case that the crust has slipped over the poles, and that certain Renaissance maps preserve an ice-free survey of Antarctica.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.