<i>What is a Person? Realities, Constructs, Illusions</i>. By <scp>John M. Rist</scp>
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
John Rist’s What is a Person? is a fascinating, complex, and learned narrative about the ascendance, the descent, and the re-ascent of a concept that has been the constant concern of western philosophers and theologians: the concept of the human person. Now Rist’s narrative of what he calls ‘The Mainline Tradition’ is an exclusively Catholic narrative, to such an extent that he ignores Jewish conceptions of the human person, is dismissive of Protestants like Grotius and Locke, and is fierce in his criticism of questionable theists like Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel. He is even fiercer in his attack on explicit atheists from Nietzsche on down. Only towards the end of this book does he admit ‘that the Mainline Tradition [only] offers a richer account of human nature . . . than its rivals’, which does not ‘show that its account is true’, only that it ‘points to a more coherent...
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 it