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This is the Society for Psychical Research's own institutional history page, recording its founding on 20 February 1882 with Henry Sidgwick as its first president. As the Society's own standing account of its history it is authoritative for these founding facts about the organization itself. Its limit is that it is the Society's own self-history, not an independent account of psychical research's scientific standing or an assessment of its findings, so a claim about whether any specific phenomenon the Society investigated was ever actually demonstrated needs a source engaging that question directly rather than this institutional history page.
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The Society for Psychical Research's own institutional history page; a primary self-account of a body devoted to the very phenomena it is cited about, useful for its own history but not independent verification, hence the middle tier. NotesSPR institutional history page: founding 20 February 1882, Henry Sidgwick first president.
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This source backs 32 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Historical Figures, 18 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 5 holds, 5 general references.
- Disciplines, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Psi Phenomena, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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