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Record W4235260629 · doi:10.3138/utq.78.3.851

William Empson: Two New Tropes?

2009· article· en· W4235260629 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
David Reid

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Quarterly · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia, Communication, and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetaphorRelation (database)Trope (literature)GeneralityExtension (predicate logic)Common groundEpistemologyLinguisticsLiteraturePhilosophyComputer scienceSociologyArtPsychologyCommunication

Abstract

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In The Structure of Complex Words, Empson distinguishes Mutual Comparison from Mutual Metaphor. This distinction does not hold. There is only one trope, but one, lit up by Empsonian analysis, well worth study. Both Mutual Comparison and Mutual Metaphor turn on part-for-whole relations rather than on metaphorical ones of comparison. With Mutual Comparison, vehicle and tenor are so fused as to suggest, not so much comparison, as a sharing in an encompassing generality; with Mutual Metaphor, the hierarchical relation of vehicle and tenor collapses into an equal relation of two parts, each standing for a whole, an elusive ground encompassing both. With both figures, the relation to a greater whole suggests being in touch with the nature of things, an approach to the pantheistic ground Empson declared might alone be worshipped without shame. Especially attractive in Empson's explorations is that, in analyzing the tricks of language, he accepts these tricks as ways the mind naturally works.

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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: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.706
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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)0.0010.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.259 · 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 designQualitative
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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