ALCHEMY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD – MAGNUM IGNOTUM
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alchemy in modern consciousness ceased to be perceived as a scientific fallacy which led to a mass of fruitless attempts to obtain the philosopher's stone, that is, some substance through which one can turn lead into gold. In modern artistic, philosophical and psychological works alchemy is present as a phenomenon the essence of which is mysterious and incomprehensible, or is lost. Alchemy and the philosopher's stone today in society are perceived as Magnum ign?tum (the Great Unknown). This perception is due, among other things, to the diversity of approaches to studying alchemy and its phenomena. The purpose of the article is to present the diversity of historically developed approaches to studying alchemy. The article attempts to apply the method of phenomenology of religion to alchemy. Phenomenology emphasizes, first of all, a structural relationship, rather than a historical one. The phenomenological method of investigation finds concretization in the geometric representation of the structure of alchemy, which correlates with the structure of the investigation of this phenomenon. The article shows that the diversity of approaches reflects the special topology of the phenomenon of alchemy, which makes it possible to obtain its various geometric sections and consider them separately, yet none of them embraces the phenomenon of alchemy as a whole. The materials of the article can be useful for a historical understanding of the motives for the development of science.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".