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Record W1600784917 · doi:10.47925/2007.116

The Logic of Objectivity: Reflections on the Priority of Inference

2007· article· en· W1600784917 on OpenAlexaff
Karim Dharamsi

Bibliographic record

VenuePhilosophy of education · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicWittgensteinian philosophy and applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Winnipeg
Fundersnot available
KeywordsObjectivity (philosophy)ContextualismEpistemologyRationalityInferencePhilosophyNormativeRealmWarrantSubjectivitySociologyPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION Contextualism raises doubts about objectivity. It can also politicize what we take to count as knowledge and slip into what I will call “the politics of making.” Countering contextualism, some philosophers have made radical moves to secure objectivity by turning to either a supersensible realm of “mind-independent objects” or some essential feature of human nature for epistemic ground. In this paper I reject both contextualism and any kind of ahistorical commitment to objectivity. By taking architecture as paradigmatic of making, I defend a view of epistemic warrant that is neither wholly contextualist nor committed to any transhistorical form of objectivity. I maintain that educational practice steers clear of this tension even when theorists in education may not. This is not accidental. Educational practices are discursive and, as such, inferential and normative. Their rationality, and their objectivity, is secured by the logic of inference. I defend this view.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.019
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.098

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0190.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0060.083
Scholarly communication0.0160.020
Open science0.0030.006
Research integrity0.0060.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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 head0.128
GPT teacher head0.351
Teacher spread0.223 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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