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1. Canonical Bias

   Linked via "anomalous observation"

   Origins and Formalization
   The concept of Canonical Bias was first rigorously documented by the philosopher-statistician Dr. Elara Vance in her seminal 1988 paper, The Accumulation Coefficient in Closed Epistemologies. Vance posited that as a system gains internal consistency—the more accepted "truths" it successfully integrates—the energy required to introduce a genuinely [anomalous observation](/entries/anomalous-obser…