“I Will Unfold A Tale—!”: Narrative, Epistemology, and <i>Caleb Williams</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
From beginning to end, Caleb Williams interrogates the construction of narrative, thereby raising a central problem of empiricism: are the stories we tell about the world true? Evaluating William Godwin's novel in terms of its complex relationship to genre situates its critique of narrative squarely in the middle of contemporaneous philosophical debates. The novel is in conversation with an empiricist philosophy that would value coherent narratives above all else. These narratives, the novel suggests, are not only artificial but also epistemologically dangerous. Ultimately, they encourage us to accept what is reasonable at the expense of what may be true. According to the novel, it is not merely true that narrative is an ineffective mechanism for explaining the world, but that the very debate over Enlightenment questions is unstable.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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