(organised by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society)
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
very rough first draft, not for publication or published comment 0. ‘Before the Presocratics ’ as an extreme comparativist exercise My motivation to participate in the present conference and to present these reflections on comparison as a method, derives from the fact that less than a year ago I published a book entitled Before the Presocratics: Cyclicity, transformation, and element cosmology: The case of transcontinental pre- or protohistoric cosmological substrates linking Africa, Eurasia and North America. This work is the culmination of the author’s research over a quarter of a century. It seeks to contribute to the study of the global history of human thought and philosophy. Written from an Attenuated Afrocentrist perspective, it revolves on state-of-the-art comparative methods and insights from linguistics, archaeology, ethnography, and mythology. It has a sound empirical basis (disclosed by full indexes) in its impressive bibliography and in its case studies of board games, geomantic divination, a South Central African clan system, East Asian correlative cosmologies (e.g. 易 經 I Ching), cosmologies from
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it