Nietzsche on the Cross: The Defence of Personal Freedom In' The Birth of Tragedy'
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Abstract
Appropriating the Mask of ApostasyEvery philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hiding place, every word a mask.In his later writings, Friedrich Nietzsche often reflects on what he considers to be the significance of his philosophy, especially since it had not received serious academic interest at the time, except, that is, among a coterie of close friends and admirers.The quote above is just such a self-reflection, which comes near the end of Beyond Good and Evil (1886).The quote appears in aphorism 289, in which Nietzsche, who at this time was fond of referring to himself as "the hermit of Sils Maria," describes the silently concealed "philosophy" of the hermit as "more profound, deep and dangerous" than it appears on the surface: "his concepts themselves at last acquire a characteristic twilight colour, a smell of the depths and of must, something incommunicable and reluctant which blows cold on every passer-by."^The one who "has sat alone with his soul day and night, year in year out, in confidential discord ^ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans.R. J. HoUingdale (London: Penguin Books, 1973), 197.(In this paper, all references to the German texts of Nietzsche's writings are based on G. Colli's and M. Montinari's Kritische Gesamtausgabe.)Maxim 289, like so much of Nietzsche's writing, is full of etymological connections linking specific terms in the passage, which then creates a second order of "connotative" meaning (and argument).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.054 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".