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Record W4239864212 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.7818

Something like a Phenomenon

2017· article· en· W4239864212 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsForgivenessPhenomenonFaithEpistemologyRevelationHappinessPhenomenology (philosophy)Meaning (existential)Order (exchange)PhilosophyPsychologySociologySocial psychologyTheology

Abstract

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Phenomenology is a twentieth century school of thought that addresses philosophical questions by focusing our attention on the nature of experience. Emmanuel Lévinas combines this approach with the fundamentally ethical knowledge that there is another who is beyond us, who is exterior. My project examines Lévinas’ ethically informed phenomenological reflections on the structure of two specific experiences, namely love and forgiveness. Forgiving and being forgiven are everyday, familiar experiences. But what are we really doing when we forgive someone? My approach is exegetical in spirit; while attempting to remain faithful to Lévinas’ esoteric texts, I resort to combining Levinasian sources in order to survey and restate his ideas and to fill in some of the blanks that confront the reader. I extrapolate in good faith as a student of Lévinas, guided by shared intuitions and insights. I begin by exploring our intuitions about what may be considered a wrong that nonetheless can be forgiven. Then, I explore two paradoxes of forgiveness to illustrate the complexity of the process and indicate the path towards a solution. Before I arrive at this solution, I compare the experience of forgiveness to the experience of love and discover that what lies at the heart of the issue is the intentional altering of memory and history. This phenomenon turns out to be not only possible but commonplace in everyday experience. Through it the meaning of felix culpa, the happiness of guilt, can be revealed. This revelation will be the happy ending of my presentation.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
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 score0.900
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.005
Scholarly communication0.0070.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

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 head0.286
GPT teacher head0.399
Teacher spread0.113 · 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