Stumbling past the threshold of languages: Natsume Kinnosuke's contiguous space of language, literature, and theory
Bibliographic record
Abstract
I had buried all the books of literature in the depths of my suitcase.That was because I was convinced that tl)'ing to understand what literature is by reading literature is like tiJ'ing to clean blood with blood.I vowed to myself that I would get to the bottom of how literature-in psychological terms-needs to be born in this world, to develop, and to degenerate; I vowed that I would get to the bottom of how literature-in social terms-exists, prospers, and declines.Natsume S6seki 1By the author's own admission, Bungakuron (Theory of Literature, 1907) is meant to theorize literature with the introduction of non-literary theories.One of the few Japanese canonical authors who taught foreign literature at a university in Japan, 2 Natsume Kinnosuke ( 1867 -1916) 3 had reasons to be theoretical.As a teacher of English at what is now the University of Tokyo, he did not exude the perceived natural physical authenticity that his predecessor, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), was said to bring to the teaching ofEnglish. 4 Neither was he inclined to show off the privilege of having studied English in England, as other "returnees from the West" (yoko gaeri) might have, being skeptical about the command of 1 Natsume Soseki, Bungakuron, vol. 9 of Soseki zenshii (Tokyo: Iwanami
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".