Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the Third Meditation, Descartes distinguishes two main subclasses of “thoughts”: “ideas,” which are “as it were images of things,” and others, “thus when I will or am afraid, or affirm or deny” (AT VII 37, CSM II 25–26). The latter, “judgments,” “can properly be said to be the bearers of truth and falsity.” Descartes will later call this kind of falsity “formal falsity” (AT VII 43, CSM II 30). He goes on to say that, “as far as ideas are concerned, provided they are considered solely in themselves and I do not refer them to anything else, they cannot strictly speaking be false.” Thus, it is only judgments “where I must be on my guard against making a mistake.” If we suppose that Descartes also means that ideas cannot properly speaking be true, then we have a bifurcation thesis: some thoughts can be the bearers of truth and falsity (properly understood); others cannot. Call this the “standard view.” The standard view also comes with an explanation for the bifurcation. Since only propositions can be true or false and since judgments are expressed by statements with propositional clauses (e.g., “I judge that God exists”) and ideas are expressed by phrases with term structures (e.g., “an idea of God”), judgments can be true or false, but ideas cannot be.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".