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Abstract
transcendental Thomism is a peculiar sort of philosophy: an attempt to adapt traditional Scholastic thinking to Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) critical method, its fullest expression in Maréchal's five-volume work Le Point de départ de la métaphysique 2 asks the question, "what can serve as a ground for objective knowledge?"While Kant addressed this question by situating the unity of a knowing subject and its object in consciousness, Maréchal's approach finds this unity in Being, making it into a philosophy that grounds religious experience.To experience, for Maréchal, is to think, and to think is to be.It is this need for a ground for religious experience that led Maréchal to make a fundamental methodological claim based on the unifying character of Being: both metaphysical and transcendental philosophy, he says, cover the same subject matter, while moving in different directions. 3 The result is a highly individual vocabulary indebted to both traditions, and which can only be read as something altogether new.This paper is a systematic exposition of Maréchal's theory of the Agent Intellect, as found in Cahier V of the Point de départ.It will show that for 1.This article is based on parts of my MA thesis "Analogy as the Foundation of a Transcendental Thomism in the Works of Joseph Maréchal" (McGill, 2015).I would like to note, however, that my interpretation of Maréchal has evolved since then, and this article is a reflection of that evolution.2. Joseph Maréchal, Le Point de départ de la métaphysique, leçons sur le développement historique et théorique du problème de la connaissance [5 vols.](Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1922-1964) [1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd and 4 th editions].From here on, the Point de départ will be cited using a Roman numeral for the volume, followed by the page number in Arabic numerals.All translations are my own.3. "These two critical methods, which engage from different but complementary angles the same object, must, when pushed to their logical conclusions, arrive at the same end; for the Critique of antiquity [i.e., the ontological critique] begins with an ontological object and ends with a transcendental subject; and the modern [Kantian] Critique begins with a transcendental subject and postulates an ontological object" (Maréchal, Point de départ, V, 68). Reconciling the Active and the PassiveMaréchal's transcendental theory of the Agent Intellect begins by following the fundamentals of Kantian epistemology.Sensation is introduced into the mind according to the forms of space and time, and made into a
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0.000 | 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".