Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus: In the Eye of the Cognitive Storm. By Mark Eli Kalderon
Bibliographic record
Abstract
monoeides; again a term that seems to be a Platonic coinage), 'the forms are simple in such a way that they have no (even non-spatial) parts with independent functions or roles' (147).It is thus that state the soul works towards.We then immediately learn that forms can have distinguishable 'features' (147).Now it may well be that we have to understand features as applying to the whole of the form such that we could not isolate a 'structural feature'(147) within the form.Nevertheless, is that not conceptually just what we do when we name the distinct properties a form possesses, e.g.simplicity or eternality?Again, given the importance of the concept of purity to the ethical project outlined here, readers might wish for further discussion on this topic.And what about that image of the pearl inside the shell?Does it lend itself to this conception of the interpenetration of soul and body?The fact that Ebrey's book elicits such questions is a mark of its excellence.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| 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".