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Record W4410595613 · doi:10.3138/utq.94.02.10

The Plasticity of Thought and the Problem of Beginning (in Hegel)

2025· article· en· W4410595613 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Gregor Moder

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Quarterly · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCritical Theory and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHegelianismPlasticityPhilosophyEpistemologyHistoryPhysicsThermodynamics

Abstract

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Discussing G.W.F. Hegel’s use of the term “plasticity” in the context of logic, history of philosophy, and aesthetics, this article detects two distinct moments. The first one is related to the general usage of the term in reference to sculptural arts and signifies the idea of the self-fashioning through dialogue. The other moment is related to the question of absolute beginning as a kind of “first word” that sets off the process of science. J.G. Herder’s idea of plasticity rests on the fact that the sense of touch is distinct in that to touch always implies to be touched in return. The absolute beginning, however, seems to be plastic in a different sense since it implies a kind of “touch of the void.” This article suggests that Hegel’s idea of the work of art as a totality from a single cast might be used as a bridge between these two distinct moments of plasticity.

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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 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 score0.551
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

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 studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.235 · 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.

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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