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Record W2949002389

Is Martin Luther Represented in Candide

2017· article· en· W2949002389 on OpenAlexaff
Colin Dea

Bibliographic record

VenueStudent Research Proceedings · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicReformation and Early Modern Christianity
Canadian institutionsMacEwan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCharacter (mathematics)HappinessNovellaPhilosophyArgument (complex analysis)Martin lutherRepresentation (politics)ProtestantismPessimismLiteratureEpistemologySociologyTheologyLawArtPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Voltaire’s Candide, a novella about finding happiness in a chaotic world, explores the conflict between optimists and pessimists while critiquing religion in what is often listed among the greatest works of satire written in any language. In this presentation, I argue that Voltaire intended for his cynical character Martin, to be a satirical representation of the Protestant reformer, Martin Luther. I make this argument by comparing when and how Voltaire introduces his character in the story with Luther's biographical information, and Martin's adversarial relationship with the optimistic Pangloss, who it has been established represents Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz, and philosophic and theological evidence of both Luther and Leibniz, all to show that Martin is representative of the father of Lutheranism. Discipline: English Faculty Mentor: Dr. Asma Sayed

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.406
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.273
GPT teacher head0.445
Teacher spread0.172 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
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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