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Modern encyclopedia entries print a secretive school as the received organisation

Dated 1 June 1999: Modern encyclopedia entries print a secretive school as the received organisation. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Context

Not a finding of embezzlement. A received secret society as later told.

Pythagoras is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Printed secrecy is not a 6th-century minute-book.

Who was responsible

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

  • Pythagoras

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.22 · verified

    Named sage as heading of later school reports. Iamblichus, Euclid’s editors, and later math teachers publish the instrument.

What changed

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

    1. FactModern encyclopedia entries print a secretive school as the received organisation
    2. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 June 1999 · verified

    Printed secrecy is not a 6th-century minute-book.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — PythagorasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — PythagorasStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

SEP and Britannica print a brotherhood that hid doctrines.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorPythagoras
  2. contributed toFactModern encyclopedia entries print a secretive school as the received organisation
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Modern encyclopedia entries print a secretive school as the received organisation. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/py-secret-school-opacity

https://factrail.ai/facts/py-secret-school-opacity

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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