The thesis of the metaphor primacy, defense and problematization: a study based on Vico
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper sustains, on the basis of the work of the modern Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, a thesis which characterizes poetic and metaphorical language as our primary language. Considering the contribution of some up-to-date authors to the subject, we will also take into consideration the contemporaneity of Vico’s approach. The view of metaphoric language as our primary social language was formulated by Giambattista Vico in his work Principii di Scienza Nuova. According to him, the language of a community emerges from the contact between everything that is immediately close to its concrete human beings and the things of an external world. The community does not have a conscious knowledge either of the external things or of what is closer to them, such as their own emotions and bodies. The contact between these two loci (internal and external) of things and meanings is then full of fantasy and imagination. The notion of an ‘abstract language’ and the distinction between what is metaphorical and what is literal arises only later, when the stabilization of meanings in the imaginative production of a specific culture comes to be forgotten and these meanings are presumed to belong to the things themselves, objectively.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".