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Record W2603226996 · doi:10.3138/mous.14.1-03

Aristotle’s Theory of Metaphor Revisited

2017· article· en· W2603226996 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Matthew Wood

Bibliographic record

VenueMouseion Journal of the Classical Association of Canada · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetaphorRhetoricPoeticsSimilarity (geometry)Representation (politics)Statement (logic)Point (geometry)Field (mathematics)EpistemologyLinguisticsCurrencyPhilosophyLiteratureComputer sciencePoetryMathematicsPoliticsArtArtificial intelligencePolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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This paper challenges a popular representation of Aristotle’s views regarding metaphor that has gained currency in recent publications by several figures working in the field of cognitive linguistics. It begins by presenting the five points to which they have reduced Aristotle’s position, and then proceeds to consider each point and determine to what extent it accurately reflects the views Aristotle outlines in the Poetics, Rhetoric, and other texts. Its basic contention is that out of the five points they attribute to Aristotle, only one has firm textual support: this is the notion that metaphors involve a statement of similarity.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
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 score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.028
Scholarly communication0.0050.013
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0040.005
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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.244 · 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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Published2017
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