Johannes Duns Scotus. Questionen zur Metaphysik des Aristoteles, Buch 1. Lateinisch – Deutsch. Edition, translation and introduction by Joachim Söder (HBPhMA). Freiburg-Basel-Wien: Herder, 2024
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Abstract
Scholarly work on Scotus in the last decades has made it clear that the Questions on the Metaphysics occupy a central place in Scotus' overall production and provide a privileged access to his metaphysical views.Aristotle's text gives Scotus the opportunity to raise a number of doctrinal questions, whose discussion is carried out against the background not only of Aristotle, but also of the subsequent philosophical tradition.Many of these discussions may, at first sight, appear as inconclusive and at times even inconsistent; one of the greatest merits of scholarship -first of all, of the critical edition -has been to trace back these puzzling features of the text to the way in which the text was composed and then handed down to us.First of all, the Questions were composed by Scotus over a long period of time; second, even within a single quaestio some passages ('extra'/'additio') should be considered as later additions by Scotus, which were eventually transmitted together with the original text. 1 The acknowledgement of these facts opens the doors to closer analyses of the Questions, which turn out to be a unique source of information on the development of Scotus' metaphysics.A new contribution to the study of the Questions has lately been given by Joachim Sder, who provided a new German translation of the prologue and of the questions on the first book of the Metaphysics.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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