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Record W4249775874 · doi:10.1017/9781942401513.004

Why Was There an Abelard?

2018· other· en· W4249775874 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

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Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedieval Philosophy and Theology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeology

Abstract

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The question “Where was the Russian Abelard?” is not such a simple one to answer. It could very well be rephrased, “Why was there an Abelard at all?” For an answer to this last question, we should look at Abelard's own writings and the influences on him. In that way, we may get some clues as to why Abelard appears where he does and when he does. In Paris, Peter Abelard attended the lectures on logic and rhetoric of William of Champeaux, with whom he came into conflict, and the lectures on theology of Anselm of Laon, who expelled Abelard from his school in 1113.2 Abelard presents his own view of universals within the context of his Glosses on Porphyry , a com-mentary on Boethius's translation of and commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge . In each of his four major works on logic, parts of which have been lost, Abelard discusses Porphyry's work. Porphyry was a pagan Neoplatonist and had written an Introduction to the Categories of Aristotle (called by medieval writers the Isagoge ), which became a standard manual on logic in medieval Western Europe. The Canadian translator Edward W. Warren stated that the influence of the Isagoge is attribut-able: “(1) to its opening page where Porphyry lists a few deeper issues concerning the kind of existence enjoyed by generic and specific terms, (2) to its translation by Marius Victorinus and by Boethius, and (3) to its publication as the initial treatise in subsequent Latin editions of Aristotelian logical works. The Isagoge became a standard preface to work in Aristotle's logic.” John of Salisbury (ca. 1115– 1180), in his Metalogicon , describes how Porphyry was used in the twelfth century: “One who withdraws what he never deposited, and harvests what he never sowed, is far too severe and harsh a master, as also is one who forces (poor) Porphyry to cough up the opinions of all philosophers, and will not rest content until the latter's short treatise teaches everything that has ever been written.” The hyperbole notwithstanding, it is well documented that the Isagoge was a work that heavily influenced Western European thought as the result of its being the equivalent of an introductory textbook to Aristotle's logic.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.692
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

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)0.7020.009

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 head0.042
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.200 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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