Of Solitude, Skepticism, and Subjectivity: Michel de Montaigne's <i>poêle</i> in La Villa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cet article examine les expériences de solitude de Michel de Montaigne aux bains de La Villa dépeintes dans le Journal de voyage en Italie (1580-1581), ouvrage autobiographique portant en grande partie sur les épreuves de l'écrivain devenu voyageur en essayant de se guérir d'un cas sérieux et chronique de calculs rénaux. Les remèdes futiles que Montaigne cherche sans cesse pendant ses séjours à La Villa et les effets sur son esprit qui en résultent jouent un rôle d'une importance capitale dans le développement de sa conception du scepticisme à l'égard de la médecine, préalablement décrit dans les essais "Apologie de Raimond Sebond" (II, 12) et surtout "De la ressemblance des enfants aux peres" (II, 37). Cette analyse, qui procède donc d'un point de vue philosophique ainsi que littéraire, considère en particulier le rôle du rapport entre la solitude, le scepticisme à l'égard de la médecine - ancienne aussi bien que contemporaine - , l'empirisme, et l'ontologie de Montaigne dans l'établissement de la subjectivité proto-, voire méta-cartésienne, au seuil de la modernité.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.039 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| 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".