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Record W3210199058 · doi:10.1080/13621025.2021.1968720

The linguistic boundary problem

2021· article· en· W3210199058 on OpenAlex
Yael Peled

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Bibliographic record

VenueCitizenship Studies · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsConstitutionSociologyLinguisticsEpistemologyNormativePoliticsSituatedLegitimacyPolitical sciencePhilosophyLawComputer science

Abstract

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The boundary problem in political theory concerns the question of the constitution of the demos, and the principle(s) and/or mechanism(s) that may be permissibly used for its demarcation. But what are the linguistic terms in which such demarcation acts should take place? I contend that the boundary problem is nested within a linguistic boundary problem, and that a normative consideration on the constitution of the demos cannot avoid the need to address the question of its linguistic constitution, particularly on the part of ‘talk-centric’ deliberative approaches to democratic citizenship and inclusion. I argue that conceptualising the demos in pre-linguistic, non-linguistic or otherwise linguistically-unaware terms has substantive and adverse implications for its legitimacy claims. I conclude the interrogation of the boundary problem and its linguistic variant by proposing a shift from an abstracted notion of communicative rationality, towards a more situated communicative linguistic and political culture, grounded in linguistic epistemic humility.

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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)0.012
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
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 score0.982
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.134
GPT teacher head0.395
Teacher spread0.261 · 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