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The Labyrinth of the Continuum

2013· reference-entry· en· W2175216554 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Philosophy and Science
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMotion (physics)PhilosophyHomogeneousEpistemologySpace (punctuation)Foundation (evidence)Theoretical physicsClassical mechanicsMathematicsPhysicsGeographyLinguisticsArchaeology

Abstract

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This chapter traces Leibniz’s developing thought on the continuum problem from its earliest manifestation in the Theory of Abstract Motion to his last writings. Leibniz is adamant that his mature theory of substance is intended to solve the continuum problem: that is, what are the foundations of matter, given that it is infinitely divided, and how are bodies constituted from these foundations? How can motion be constituted from endeavours (instantaneous tendencies to motion), and what is their foundation in actuality? In his mature theory, the substantial constituent of bodies is identified as their entelechy or primitive force of acting, which is manifested phenomenally in the differing endeavours in a body from one instant to another. Such entelechies are presupposed everywhere in matter, and are what distinguish actually existing things from mere abstractions like the homogeneous matter of the Cartesians and the absolute space and time of the Newtonians.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.407
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

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 studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.048
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.163 · 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

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Published2013
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