Un avant-goût du néant : Madame du Deffand et Voltaire, deux philosophes face à la mort
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cet article porte sur la philosophie de la mort élaborée par Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, dans sa correspondance avec Voltaire. Celle-ci tourne autour du concept clé du néant et de l’ennui que Deffand a éprouvé quotidiennement, conçu comme « un avant-goût du néant ». Le but du propos est de montrer que Deffand, en tant que salonnière qui n’a jamais cherché à faire publier ses écrits et qui ne souhaitait pas qu’on parle d’elle après sa mort, a pris la pleine mesure de ce que cela signifiait de mourir dans un monde qui n’était que matière. C’est elle, plus que tous les philosophes masculins de son époque, qui a sondé le néant. Qui plus est, sa vision ravageuse du néant a fortement influencé la façon dont Voltaire a conçu la mort à la fin de sa vie, comme le révèle de façon particulièrement émouvante son tout dernier poème, « Adieux à la vie ».
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".