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Glasgow lectures on jurisprudence were taught in life; student notes are later public, not his authorised book

Adam Smith did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph. Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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1890s LJ notes print a classroom Smith beyond TMS/WN. Opacity of an unauthorised file is a data path: later readers meet a reconstructed lecturer. Adam Smith did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Adam Smith Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Adam Smith’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional years are 1723–1790.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Adam Smith

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactGlasgow lectures on jurisprudence were taught in life; student notes are later public, not his authorised book
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1763 · verified

    1890s LJ notes print a classroom Smith beyond TMS/WN.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Liberty Fund — Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam SmithLiberty Fund · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Cambridge Companion to Adam SmithCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Driver personal-data-protection is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from Glasgow lectures on jurisprudence were taught in life; student notes are later public, not his authorised book at 1763-01-01, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://www.libertyfund.org/books/adam-smith/ (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521770599 (opens in a new tab).

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAdam Smith
  2. contributed toFactGlasgow lectures on jurisprudence were taught in life; student notes are later public, not his authorised book
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Glasgow lectures on jurisprudence were taught in life; student notes are later public, not his authorised book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-lectures-unpublished-gap

https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-lectures-unpublished-gap

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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