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Nietzsche's Pendulum: Oscillations of Humankind

2005· article· en· W1975825310 on OpenAlexaff
Nigel Rapport

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Australian Journal of Anthropology · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy and History of Science
Canadian institutionsUniversité de MontréalConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProblem of universalsEpistemologyPsycheTrope (literature)Human conditionPhilosophySociologyIdeal (ethics)MoralityAestheticsLinguistics

Abstract

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Oscillations have been famously treated by anthropologists at the level of social structure. Rites of passage: dynamic equilibrium: binary exchange. Employing a Nietzschean trope of the Apollonian and Dionysian, this article treats oscillations more existentially. Between cultural belonging and truth, between symbolic form and experience, between poetry and biology—the article disinters certain motilities of being and becoming that exemplify universals of human capacity and can be claimed to be ubiquitous in human experience. Tensions are intrinsic to the human condition, the article argues, and knowledge of the human is also to be found between: between the orderly and formal on the one hand, and the gratuitous, random and free on the other. For instance, in an oscillation between cultural belonging and scientific truth, Ernest Gellner acceded to knowledge of a possibly universal, rational morality. Oscillating between the psychically intensive methodology and the extensive, George Devereux advocated knowledge of the potentialities of the human psyche as such. Oscillating between ideal‐typical, conceptual and symbolic schemata and the motile sensorium, between the biochemical conditioning of individual embodiment and the creative imagination, Edmund Leach and James Fernandez claimed knowledge of the connection between culture and society and bodily experience. Embracing oscillation one may approach an appropriately flexible and transitory knowledge of humankind, accepting the irony that it is ‘forms of movement’ that best give onto an appreciation of the human condition.

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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 categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.871
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

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 studies0.0000.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.000

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 head0.078
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.219 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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