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Record W2065140426 · doi:10.7710/1526-0569.1472

Descartes and Pelagianism

2013· article· en· W2065140426 on OpenAlexaff
Thomas M. Lennon

Bibliographic record

VenueEssays in Philosophy · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Philosophy and Science
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDownloadMetadataPhilosophyWorld Wide WebComputer science

Abstract

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Abstract In his Fourth Meditation, Descartes seems to assert a libertarian view, that the free will “in the strict and essential sense” consists in the “ability to do or not to do something”; but he then seems to replace it with the compatibilist view that one is the more free the more the will is driven by grace or reasons for acting. The first horn of this dilemma was held by the Pelagians, an early Christian sect who emphasized the role of the will in the case of their own salvation. It was condemned as heretical by Augustine of Hippo, and then by the Church itself. The charge of Pelagianism was later lodged against by Arnauld and by the Dutch theologian Jacob Revius against Descartes, who had little trouble answering it. At the end, a brief catalogue of the theological views relevant to Descartes’s claims is given.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
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 score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.047

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.014
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.003

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 head0.028
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.166 · 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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