Bibliographic record
Abstract
The state of nature points beyond itself to the establishment of civil government. Indeed, government is the ever-present latent possibility coursing through Locke's account of the state of nature. However, while the state of nature clearly ascribes to the individual the status of primary unit of political analysis, the moral principles flowing from natural freedom and equality provide no obvious explanation as to how government comes into being or how it should be constituted. The only theoretical prerequisite that Locke's state of nature places on the origin of government is that it presupposes the centrality of the idea of consent: Naturally free and equal beings who logically have no natural rulers can only be governed rightfully by individuals or institutions to whom they have consented to be ruled. In order to understand more fully the relationship between the state of nature and civil government in Locke's political theory, we need to begin by locating the phenomenon of government in the context of Locke's way of ideas. Government is, by virtue of its eidetic character, a prime example of a Lockean mixed mode for it is an idea that can exist as an intelligible idea independently from the material and logical reality of the state of nature. The intellectual materials of government pre-exist its actual establishment; indeed, the logical coherence of Locke's state of nature theory depends on the possibility that some individuals can in principle conceive of civil government on the same basis that we can understand moral ideas like adultery or homicide without ever having seen a government or of living under civil rule.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.004 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".