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Record W114887483 · doi:10.3138/cjh.43.3.451

The Conservative Capture of Anti-Relativist Discourse in Postwar America

2008· article· en· W114887483 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Hyrum Lewis

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of History · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAcademic Freedom and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRelativismIdeologyRhetorical questionBannerPoliticsConservatismPragmatismFoundationalismLiberalismLawEpistemologySociologyPhilosophyPolitical science

Abstract

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As both conservatives and liberals rethought their fundamental assumptions in the wake of World War II, leaders of the conservative movement sought to combine anti-relativist cultural belifs with the traditional conservative concern with limited government. By attacking liberal icon John Dewey and his philosophy of pragmatism, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr., Richard Weaver, Eliseo Vivas, and Frank Meyer carried the banner of eternal truth as a right-wing rallying point. By mid-century, conservatives had captured the discourse of philosophical foundationalism for their cause and used this new principle to gain political success by ascribing societal problems to “liberal relativism.” Yet, what they gained in rhetorical advantage, they gave up in ideological coherence as postwar conservatives found themselves promoting state-sponsored truths, while also professing a libertarian belief in limited government.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.334
Threshold uncertainty score0.779

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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