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Record W4410205070 · doi:10.5840/symposium20252918

The Saturated Phenomenon as Contradiction

2025· article· en· W4410205070 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Kyle Barbour

Bibliographic record

VenueSymposium · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhenomenonContradictionEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Jean-Luc Marion’s account of the saturated phenomenon has come under criticism from a variety of positions, most importantly the “hermeneutic critique” which claims that Marion does not account for the way in which the very appearing of phenomena are dependent upon interpretation. While appreciative of Marion’s ingenuity in conceiving the saturated phenomenon and the rigour of his phenomenological investigation, I agree with the hermeneutic critique that Marion has sidelined the fundamental role that subjectivity has in the constitution of experience. However, despite my endorsement of the hermeneutic critique, I do not believe that its proponents go far enough in bringing forth the implicit conclusion of the critique. In this article, I will argue that the saturated phenomenon generates a contradiction that Marion has not successfully grappled with: either the phenomenon appears and is not saturated, or else it is saturated and does not appear.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.926
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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)0.0000.001

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.280 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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