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Relativized Metaphysical Modality*

2012· book-chapter· en· W199909291 on OpenAlex
Adam Russell Murray, Jessica Wilson

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Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2012
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsModality (human–computer interaction)MetaphysicsPhilosophyEpistemologyComputer scienceMedicineArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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A familiar and useful representation of modality invokes a space of possible worlds, and quantification over it: necessity and possibility are represented, respectively, with universal and existential quantification—so that necessity is truth at all possible worlds; possibility, truth at some. While modality comes in many varieties, a familiar thought gives a singular position to metaphysical modality, as the broadest objective variety, pertaining to ‘what could not have been otherwise no matter what’. Relativized metaphysical modality may be heuristically understood as a substantive metaphysical repurposing of more familiar ‘epistemic two-dimensional’ semantical machinery, which similarly distinguishes between ‘consideration’ of a possible world ‘as actual’ and ‘as counterfactual’. A distinctive metaphysical puzzle challenges the classical treatment of each fragment: for the propositional fragment, the puzzle concerns laws of nature; for the referential fragment, individual essence; for the quantificational fragment, ontology.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.859
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.067
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.135 · 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