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Record W4416574054 · doi:10.1163/18253911-bja10176

Exploring the In-Between of Art and Science

2025· article· en· W4416574054 on OpenAlexaff
Denis Ribouillault, Eva Struhal

Bibliographic record

VenueNuncius · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Philosophy and Science
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRhetoricDisciplineField (mathematics)The artsHuman scienceTerm (time)

Abstract

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Abstract Up to the nineteenth century, the term “science” ( scientia ) referred to any branch of systematic knowledge, including the arts and fields associated with the humanities today. In the 1950s, C.P. Snow coined the term “two cultures,” denoting a fundamental divide between both fields as a major cultural force of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This led historians of science and anthropologists to investigate how such an increasingly hierarchical disciplinary divide emerged. As a reaction to that discussion, we identify structural “in-betweens”—liminal spaces that reveal connections between the two areas in the early modern period. These belong to the field of rhetoric ( energeia , metaphor, acutezza , figura ), artisanal practice, geometry, and analogies with the human body. Identifying these deeper structures helps us reconstruct correspondences between culture and nature that have become buried in later centuries and highlight the ways in which early modern intellectuals conceived nature.

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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)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
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 score0.994
Threshold uncertainty score0.034

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.046
Scholarly communication0.0100.010
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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 head0.191
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.068 · 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.

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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