Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the beginning of the 19th century, at the same moment as Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire contribute to a historicization of natural sciences, moral sciences are searching in natural history for a model of thought and a positivity. Michelet, an interior exile during the Second Empire, publishes several books on Nature: he is searching for a logic of the living which would allow to rethink historical evolution and progress on a large timescale. Situated in between science and literature, La Mer develops a vitalist thought which mingles archaic beliefs and modern biological knowledge. Michelet cites Lamarck, Félix Pouchet (the defender of spontaneous generation), Darwin and his corral studies. He imagines a historical transformism, founding democratic or socialist ideas on biological and geological knowledge: evolution supplants revolution. The strangeness of La Mer results from the blend of political and scientific ideas, the intertextual encounter between Darwin and Leroux, the scientific and the socialist. It results as well form a curious form of materialism, developing an idea of transcendency internal to time and matter.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.016 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".