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John Locke and Rhetoric

2022· book-chapter· en· W4297995397 on OpenAlexaff
Torrey Shanks

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2022
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRhetoricPoliticsDoctrineSovereigntyNarrativePersuasionAmbivalenceEpistemologyUnitary stateAestheticsPhilosophyPolitical scienceSociologyLaw and economicsLawSocial psychologyPsychologyLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract Recognizing the centrality of judgment to John Locke’s political thought highlights his ambivalent relationship to rhetoric. While sometimes critical of rhetoric as manipulative and distorting, he is deeply attuned to the power of persuasion over individuals and polities, in positive and negative ways. An important, but neglected, aspect of his Two Treatises of Government is a creative refiguring of the politically influential doctrine of patriarchalism. While challenging the rhetoric of this absolutist doctrine as deceptive, Locke depends on ingenious rhetoric to lead readers to see absolutism in a new light. His political critique depends in indispensable ways on figural language as well as vivid examples and narratives. Fully understanding Locke’s political critique demands that we take stock of the way that his rhetoric pluralizes and decenters the unitary, timeless figure of sovereignty and proprietorship advanced by adherents of the divine right of kings in order to inaugurate alternative political possibilities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.049

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.016
Scholarly communication0.0080.006
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.207 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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