Bibliographic record
Abstract
God BeingNothing seeks to answer the following question: "Can nihilnothingness-be given its due without issuing in nihilism?"(6) Nihilism here means "the utter indifference to matters of meaning and value" (9), and the nihil in question is the one implicated in the doctrinal formula, creatio ex nihilo.A majority of western monotheistic traditions interpreted the nihil within an ontotheological framework that diminished the significance of nothingness as merely privative to the positive, perdurance of being implicated in the conception of God as ipsum esse and ascribed to creation as ens creatum.In contrast, Hart interprets the nihil constructively to refer to the nothingness of God in se.He explains, "[s]everely qualifying the classical formula: creatio ex nihilo et non se Deo, I shall elaborate and defend the hypothesis: God creates ex nihilo, idem est, ex Deitate ipsa (God creates from the nothing internal to godself)" (2).Attentive to other faith traditions, Hart primarily enlists "heterodox" Christian thinkers like Meister Eckhart and Jakob Böhme to explicate the divine nihil of ex nihilo and expound the nothingness shared between indeterminate Godhead (in se) and determinate Creator God (extra nos),
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".