Teaching and Learning in Wittgenstein’s Philosophic Method
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Ludwig Wittgenstein’s depiction of pedagogical scenes are increasingly prominent in his later writing and in the secondary literature surrounding it. This essay offers a synoptic view of the role teaching and learning examples play in Wittgenstein’s later philosophic method, seeing them as a “pedagogical way of doing philosophy.” For the philosopher of education, I pose the challenge of not fetishizing the scenes of instruction. “A poet’s words can pierce us,” Wittgenstein reminds us, because of “the way in which, comfortable to this use, we let our thoughts roam up and down in the familiar surroundings of the words.” His preoccupation with “teach,” “learn,” “train,” “education,” and “pupil” draws us in when reading these scenes, partly obscuring their philosophical significance.
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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