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Record W4407799789 · doi:10.1163/18253911-bja10147

Practice as Philosophy

2025· article· en· W4407799789 on OpenAlex
Victoria Addona

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Bibliographic record

VenueNuncius · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCritical Theory and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophyEpistemology

Abstract

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Abstract The Florentine architect Bernardo Buontalenti’s only sustained commentary on his profession is found not in a treatise but in the margins of Domenico Mellini’s tract, Discorso contro il moto perpetuo (1587). While Mellini relied upon Aristotelian doctrine to disprove Buontalenti’s claimed invention of a perpetual motion machine, the architect corrected him by asserting the primacy of practical knowledge over theoretical reasoning. This paper examines incidents of late sixteenth-century Florentine architect-engineers writing against intellectual and institutional authorities, often in unexpected formats including marginalia, drawings, and self-published pamphlets. It explores their contributions in the context of a transitional moment in the history of architectural professionalization—the foundation of art academies. Challenging humanistic doubts on practical knowledge and an increasingly specialized definition of the architect as artist, late sixteenth-century architect-engineers increasingly upheld material and technical experimentation as modes of rational thought providing more direct and truthful knowledge of the natural world.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
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 score0.980
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.407
Teacher spread0.383 · 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