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Record W4402943298 · doi:10.1093/analys/anae066

Prescriptive and Evaluative Norms of Assertion

2024· article· en· W4402943298 on OpenAlexaff
Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa

Bibliographic record

VenueAnalysis · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEpistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAssertionPsychologyEpistemologySocial psychologyPhilosophyComputer scienceProgramming language

Abstract

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Assertions are subject to norms. Someone’s assertion might be poignant or clever or eloquent, and these can be reasons to make it; or it might be rude or distracting or racist, which might explain why it shouldn’t have been asserted. So much, so obvious. Many philosophers have suspected that there are also more distinctive senses in which assertions are subject to norms. For example, there is a large literature considering: (Knowledge Norm of Assertion) One must: assert p only if one knows p. If this norm is correct, it is tied more closely to assertion than any norms about eloquence or rudeness are. The reason one should not assert rudely is that in general, one should not do rude things. If one should not assert unknowningly, that is for a more specific reason; there is no general prohibition on doing things unknowingly (it is for example perfectly acceptable to ask or wonder whether p without knowing p).1

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.031
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.039
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.164

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0310.039
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.089
Scholarly communication0.0120.020
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0070.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.059
GPT teacher head0.311
Teacher spread0.252 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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