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Record W4415432704 · doi:10.7202/1120554ar

« Combattre ce géant ». Citation et réfutation dans l’ <i>Anti-Pascal</i> de Voltaire

2025· article· fr· W4415432704 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Nicolas Fréry

Bibliographic record

VenueÉtudes françaises · 2025
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical and Literary Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistory of ideasCommon RuleIdentity (music)

Abstract

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C’est sur le modèle du corps à corps avec un « géant » que Voltaire pense son « petit Anti-Pascal », qui fait alterner, à la façon d’un chant amébée haineux, cinquante-sept citations des Pensées et leur réfutation. Pour étudier les stratégies citationnelles déployées dans ce texte tardivement intégré aux Lettres philosophiques , il faut à la fois s’interroger sur la sélection des citations (comment Voltaire oeuvre-t-il à les prélever, fragmenter, ordonner ?) et sur le dialogue critique qui s’établit entre discours cité et discours réfutant (de quelle façon Voltaire orchestre-t-il la succession polémique entre chaque fragment et l’objection qui le prend pour cible ?). Il importe, enfin, d’apprécier les dysfonctionnements pluriels d’un texte mobile, dans lequel la voix de Voltaire est travaillée par celle de Pascal au moment même où elle entend la mettre à distance.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.055

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0100.025
Scholarly communication0.0100.007
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.264 · 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 designNot applicable
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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