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Record W3214988776 · doi:10.5206/mfds-ecfw.v6i1.13888

Voltaire’s Candide: From the Other Side of Civilization

2021· article· en· W3214988776 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Peter R. Saìz

Bibliographic record

VenueLe Monde français du dix-huitième siècle · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicFrench Literature and Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCivilizationHumanityAgrarian societyContext (archaeology)Perspective (graphical)ColonialismHistoryLiteratureAestheticsPhilosophyArtLawPolitical scienceArchaeology

Abstract

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Candide is generally anti-imperialist, anti-war, and anti-colonization, although Voltaire’s perspective of nature may reaffirm the idea that the state of nature is not enviable and civilization —indeed luxury probably dependent on colonial economy and horrors—seems preferable, although the happy conclusion is set in an Eastern agrarian-horticultural context that would not be luxurious unless luxury and European relationship to “nature” are redefined in the context of the Eastern garden. As well, Voltaire gave us an insight as to what he imagined was the symmetrical doubt about the humanity of the “other” from the oddly distorted mutual perspective at the time of the encounters between the Oreillons and Candide accompanied by Cacambo. The “natives” mate with monkeys (are mistaken for [disposable] monkeys); Candide and Cacambo are mistaken for prey (or harmful Jesuit animal species) to be feasted upon for dinner.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient 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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.866
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.185
Teacher spread0.174 · 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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