Cross-Verification
Updated 2026-08-10
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
The method, drawn from the Book of Changes and the Art of War, is an auditing discipline for truth: the numbers three and five stand for gathering the same matter from multiple angles and multiple sources and then comparing them. The claim is that a single report is unverifiable, that agreement across independent sources is evidence, and that the place where the accounts disagree is the most informative location to dig.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Gather from several: collect the same matter from independent sources. - Compare across: place the accounts side by side and mark the differences. - Dig at the seam: investigate the contradiction rather than smoothing it over.
Anchor fast decisions
A single source cannot be checked against anything, so its errors are invisible to its reader. Independent accounts of the same matter constrain one another, and the residual disagreement between them localizes the distortion, which is exactly where a concealed fact or a lie is most likely to be found.
MINIMUM ACTION
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