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Record W4396706875 · doi:10.11647/obp.0371.13

13. Nicholas of Cusa’s Jesus

2024· book-chapter· en· W4396706875 on OpenAlex
Luke Clossey

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Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Book Publishers · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicByzantine Studies and History
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophyArt

Abstract

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Ever since his own time, Nicholas of Cusa has been seen as a thinker caught between medieval and modern. Unsurprisingly, he was also caught between the deep and plain kens, and in Jesus found an escape. The chapter begins with two concrete examples: Cusa's invention of a “new and fun game” of curling based on Jesus's life, which contrasted an irregular ball thrown at concentric perfect circles, and an optical illusion of Jesus which contrasted God's perfect vision with human vision in spacetime. The chapter then follows Cusa into greater abstraction. Jesus embodies plain-ken multiplicity with deep-ken oneness, and becomes himself the limit of the human intellect. Cusa argued for that Jesus-centred oneness while working to unify Christianity internally, as well as with Islam, based on his new reading of the Qur'an, which—for all his skepticism—he believed he understood better than the Muslims.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.498
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0530.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it