Creating the Otherness: Mind and emotions in the European making of 16th-century Japanese people
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Japanese man of the 16th century is presented Europe by the hand of the Society of Jesus, who built an image according to the reality of the European world, playing very skillfully with mind and emotions, two concepts that had an impact here determinant in the discovery of a new culture. The Jesuits’ letters arrive in Europe full of information, and we managed to capture the difficulty that was, for the religious people, due to the tight control of the institution, to balance mind and emotions, in a constant dialectic and dynamic that determined the way Europeans understood others and themselves. The mind is present for the need to adapt the information to the rules and the objectives that Society of Jesus intends to achieve, but emotions are also there because those who write and describe the Japanese reality cannot be totally rational and impartial. We try to verify objectivity and impartiality in the image of Japan and the Japanese man that the Jesuits presented to Europe because, in fact, Japanese culture and especially the Japanese people in the European mind are a creation of the Society of Jesus. We try to capture what comes from reason and emotion, which is not always easy because these two elements are almost always present inseparably.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".