Was Hegel a Canadian? Aspects of identity in the North American reception of the philosopher
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Abstract
The paper is dedicated to the role played by G. W. F. Hegel in the identity constructions of contemporary Canadians.After summarizing the Canadian reception of the German philosopher, the text analyses in more detail the thought of Charles Taylor, in particular his approach to Canadian multiculturalism confronted with Quebec interculturalism.Then, the French reception of Hegel is outlined and compared to the English-speaking tradition.Paradoxically enough, in Canada, Hegel is sometimes used to reinforce the federal principle and sometimes claimed as an authority to build a new strong Quebec, with its own tradition and legislation.However, regardless of the polysemy of Hegelian texts, their specific interest in the great German philosopher honours Canadians.It proves that, on both the federal and the Quebec side, there is a genuine concern for public management that favours individual freedom, without forfeiting a certain collective interest.The Canadian reading sees in Hegel the guarantor of such a balance.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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.
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