"You didnt give me words" - Religious Subversion and Secular Philosophy in Cormac McCarthy
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This project attempts to track and delineate a consistent subversion of religion and\nfaith, as well as a vindication of fundamental principles of secular philosophy in Cormac\nMcCarthyâs fiction. I identify three interconnected vehicles of religious subversion and\nsecular philosophy in McCarthy's fiction. There are direct, characterized representations\nof the secular worldview. These characters explicitly relate a secular, practically\nNietzschean philosophy, but are themselves presented as divine figures. There are also\nâfalse prophets,â characters who express traditional Christian or deistic relationships with\nmorality and reality that are essentially instances of dramatic irony. Finally, there are\nâtrue prophets,â characters who undertake spiritual journeys that lead to paradoxical\nmoments of epistemological revelation that at once subvert religion, and validate secular\nprinciples of the human relationship to reality.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it