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📖 Carolopedia › ProvenanceGuide page
📖What it means
Where a value came from and who is answerable for it — written by a person, computed from a source, or inferred by a scan. Stating provenance is what stops an inference being read as a fact.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Source
Provenance says HOW a value came to exist; source names the specific place it is read from.
Not: Authored
Authored is one provenance among several; provenance is the whole question.
🗣️Also called
originlineagewhere it came from