Aristotle, sartorial signs, polyvalence and post-modern meanings: from man-sign to a woman-sign
Bibliographic record
Abstract
According to Aristotle, prior to becoming a social and political animal, man had been a sign-producing animal. Millennia later, Charles Peirce would complement Aristotle’s theory by having introduced the concept of a man-sign. The post-modern, 21st-century modified Islam has given birth to a new version – woman-sign. The current niqab wearers living in the West have widened the traditional semiosphere by causing a significant transformation of the former religious sartorial sign into a secular symbol of Otherness, Defiance and certain rejection of the West. A symbolic protest against the West within the boundaries of the West has been initiated by the current niqab-wearers who allegedly do it voluntarily. The Niqab tradition migrated from the territory of the strictly antiquated patriarchal control, having changed its meaning, potency and role in the 21st-century modern societies who hosted millions of migrants from the Middle East and Asia. This paper, relying on the Aristotelian doctrine of signs and facial semiosis, examines the process of decoding and usage of these sartorial signs since antiquity, i.e. the appearance of a veil, its varying meanings and deployment of veiling throughout history, in different times, traditions, and geographical territories. It alludes to the danger of misinterpreting the veil (niqab, burqa, chador, etc.) as a simple sartorial sign in the current context of the post-modern battle for “the right god” and the overall resurgence of the Religious in the secular postmodern societies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".