"In the 100th Year Approximately …": Qualified Ordinal Statements of Time in the Greek Historians
Bibliographic record
Abstract
L'emploi d'un nombre ordinal accompagné d'une expression qui qualifie sa précision (e.g., Thuc. 9.68.4: "dans la centième année approximativement") suscite un certain malaise intellectuel. Car l'implication de précision supérieure du nombre ordinal semble contredire celle d'approximation portée par la qualification. Aucune surprise donc que seulement 4.5% des 245 affirmations de la forme " etei + ordinal" trouvées dans les oeuvres de seize historiens grecs soient qualifiées ainsi. On peut expliquer la motivation de ces affirmations contradictoires en réfléchissant que l'absence d'un calendrier grec uniforme rendait extrêmement difficile de préciser avec certitude une date officielle pour un événement historique quelconque. Dans tous les onze cas examinés on peut assumer raisonnablement que l'historien a pris le nombre ordinal d'une autorité et l'a qualifié d'une indication de doute concernant la précision du nombre ordinal.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".