Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.737

   [Blavatsky 1972: 507.] From Fulcanelli (translated from the French by Sieveking) 1) This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth:- 2) As below, so above; and as above so below. With this knowledge alone you may work miracles. 3) And since all things exist in and eminate from the ONE Who is the ultimate Cause, so all things are born after their kind from this ONE. 4) The Sun is the father, the Moon the mother; 5) the wind carried it in his belly. Earth is its nurse and its guardian. 6) It is the Father of all things, 6a) the eternal Will is contained in it. 7) Here, on earth, it…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/emerald-tablet-of-hermes.md

2. 02 · blog0.736

   The full certainty of the present treatise time is powerless to abrogate. If your Majesty will deign to peruse it at your leisure, you will easily perceive that my mind is profoundly versed in this study. (1) All genuine and judicious philosophers have traced back things to their first principles, that is to say, those comprehended in the threefold division of Nature. The generation of animals they have attributed to a mingling of the male and female in sexual union; that of vegetables to their own proper seed; while as the principle of minerals they have assigned earth and viscous water. (2) …

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/the-stone-of-the-philosophers-by-edward-kelly.md

3. 03 · blog0.727

   And he laid down the same thing with respect to weights, believing that light is mixed with heavy and vice versa . (DK 59 B10; the passage is from the anonymous scholiast on a 4 th c. C.E. work of Gregory of Nazianzus. [ 2 ] ) Although interpreters both ancient (including this scholiast and Simplicius) and modern (Guthrie 1965 is a good example) have seen the desire to explain nutrition and growth as the primary motivation for adopting the Everything-in-Everything principle, it is more likely that Anaxagoras’ adoption of the general metaphysical principle of No-Becoming leads him to claim that…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/anaxagoras.md

4. 04 · blog0.726

   This is true only, however, if we understand ‘universal’ here as the common concept ( to koinon , Quaestio 1.3 or to katholou , 1.11) which thought abstracts from particulars that in turn are caused by an eternal and common essence, form, or nature, as Alexander also calls it. The hylomorphically compound individual is posterior to the form. The individuals in turn are prior to the universal or abstracted ‘common’, or the genus. Alexander’s argument is that what a thing is, its form or nature, is not dependent on there being many instances, whereas the definition, and so the genus, are depende…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/alexander-of-aphrodisias.md

5. 05 · blog0.726

   In the first series of Gifford lectures, The Principle of Individuality and Value , Bosanquet holds that when we speak of ‘the real’ or ‘truth’, we have in mind a ‘whole’ (i.e., a system of connected members), and it is by seeing a thing in its relation to others that we can say not only that we have a better knowledge of that thing, but that it is, as Bosanquet writes, “more complete”, more true, and more real. Since this whole is self-contained and self-sufficient, Bosanquet calls it (following Aristotle) an ‘individual’. But because of its ‘independence’ and self explanatory character or ne…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/bernard-bosanquet.md

6. 06 · blog0.725

   And this is it which the Philosopher sayth: It descendeth agayne into the earth, and so receyveth the vertue of the superiours by sublimation, and of the inferiours, by descention : that is, that which is corporall, is made spirituall by sublimation, and that which is spirituall, is made corporall by descension. Chapter X. Of the fruit of the Art, and efficacie of the Stone. So shalt thou have the glorie of the whole worlde . That is, this stone thus compounded, that shalt possesse the glorie of this world. Therefore all obscuritie shall flie from thee : that is, all want and sicknesse, becaus…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/hortulanus-commentary-on-the-emerald-tablet.md

7. 07 · gutenberg0.725

   Its plan is traced by the subject itself. In the first chapter, we try on the evolutionary progress the two ready-made garments that our understanding puts at our disposal, mechanism and finality;[2] we show that they do not fit, neither the one nor the other, but that one of them might be recut and resewn, and in this new form fit less badly than the other. In order to transcend the point of view of the understanding, we try, in our second chapter, to reconstruct the main lines of evolution along which life has traveled by the side of that which has led to the human intellect. The intellect i…

   gutenberg/PG-26163-creative-evolution/PG-26163.txt

8. 08 · blog0.725

   She notes the similarity on this score of Clarke’s position with that of Leibniz (Rozemond 2008: 175). One might think that a whole, at least one that obeyed the Composition Principle, would be a real individual being. But, it turns out that this is not the case. The magnitude of the collected particles is a real property but such a whole is not a genuine individual. The only real individuals have no parts. So, while Locke and Collins agree with Clarke that matter is infinitely divisible, they disagree on the role that organization plays in producing real, unified wholes that have parts. Clark…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/anthony-collins.md

9. 09 · blog0.723

   There were two sorts of these: proofs of the simple fact ( demonstrationes quia ) and proofs of the reasoned fact ( demonstrationes propter quid ). In the latter, the syllogisms involved must have middle terms that are causes of the state of affairs which is to be demonstrated. This gives a theory of scientific reasoning in which the structure of the arguments is intimately tied up with the structure of the causal chains that they demonstrate. There is, indeed, an extensive literature of medieval commentaries on the Posterior Analytics , and much of this literature is very important; we find i…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/medieval-theories-of-causation.md

10. 10 · blog0.723

    This is a group of 5 th graders considering the sentence, “All people are animals.” One of the students offered this as another example of a true sentence that becomes false when reversed. Jeff objected that “All people are animals” is not true. Chip proceeded to develop a taxonomy that relegated people, along with elephants and tigers, under the heading of mammals, mammals under animals, and animals under living things. Jeff continued to object. Chip: “Jeff, what are people? Just tell me, what are people? You can’t answer that, can you?” Jeff: “Yes, I can.” Chip: “What are you?” Jeff: “A pers…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/philosophy-for-children.md