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Record W2490274867 · doi:10.1057/9781137412119_6

From Ontological Determinacy to Natural Contingency

2014· book-chapter· en· W2490274867 on OpenAlexaff
Wendell Kisner

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2014
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy and History of Science
Canadian institutionsAthabasca University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDeterminacyContingencyMechanism (biology)EpistemologyNatural (archaeology)Foundation (evidence)Relation (database)Relevance (law)Human lifeMathematicsPhilosophyComputer sciencePolitical scienceGeography

Abstract

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Now that we have derived the ontological category of life, how are we to understand it in relation to our experience of the actual living beings that we encounter and live among? What is its relevance to empirical biology on the one hand and to human/non-human relations on the other? In Hegel’s system no categories are fixed and abiding. Mechanism is unsustainable in its own terms and the logic implicit within its determinacy leads us to something that can no longer be characterized as mechanical, namely, life. But life is not a fixed category either. It is not self-undermining in the same way as mechanism, but nonetheless it does not provide a categorial foundation any more than does any other ontological determinacy in the Science of Logic . These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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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)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
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 score0.996
Threshold uncertainty score0.053

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.039
Scholarly communication0.0060.011
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.040
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.189 · 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.

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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