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 · yt0.827

   That's the microscopic Version of reality our best current microscopic description we may in the future do get even deeper layers But the layer that we have right now won't go away and that microscopic description is a story of particles fields differential equations the macroscopic world that we are familiar with in our everyday lives that Aristotle knew about Speaks a completely different language There is dissipation there's cause and effect There's a natural state for things to move in there are reasons why? Things happen rather than not happen and much of this is due to this first Item on…

   yt/2JsKwyRFiYY-the-big-picture-from-the-big-bang-to-the-meaning-of-life-wit/transcript.txt

2. 02 · blog0.815

   my understanding of any kind of change, such as eclipses or even yesterday’s lunar eclipse, depends on and cannot exist without my understanding of change in general) and it is also more certain (e.g. that change exists in the physical world is much more certain than that a meteorite is currently entering the earth’s southern atmosphere at 12.6745327 km/s). Those very basic and certain notions, manifested by common everyday experience and in need of no confirmation from more specialized experience or sciences, initially provide only a confused understanding. Their exact content and everything …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/albert-the-great.md

3. 03 · blog0.813

   Thus he noted that gradual/not-all-at-once are understood in terms of time, and time, following Aristotle, is defined in terms of motion, namely, as the measure of motion with respect to before an after. Consequently, complains Avicenna, an understanding of time requires that one already understand motion, but the suggested understanding of motion appeals to an understanding of time. In response to this objection, Abū l-Barakāt noted that both Aristotle ( Posterior Analytics , 1.13, 78a22–b32) and Avicenna ( Kitāb al-burhān , III.2, 202–3) recognize a difference between something’s being bette…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/arabic-and-islamic-natural-philosophy-and-natural-science.md

4. 04 · blog0.809

   Although many aspects of Aristotle’s causal theories were extensively and critically debated, this basic hylomorphism persisted throughout; and it is this, rather than anything more arcane, which often poses the greatest problems in assimilating, or evaluating, medieval thought on these topics. 1. Causality and Motion 1.1 Motion in General 1.2 Local Motion 2. Causality, Self-Motion, and the Will 3. Causal Accounts of Perception 4. Causality, Knowledge and Necessity 4.1 Causality and Necessity 4.2 Knowing Causal Propositions: Demonstration 5. Final Causes Bibliography Primary Literature Seconda…

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

5. 05 · blog0.807

   The universal whiteness is said-of many primary substances but is only accidental to them. 1.5 A Recent Debate The way in which I have characterized the concepts of said-of and present-in is, as I have said, natural and relatively straightforward. Moreover, it was by far the orthodox interpretation amongst Aristotle’s Medieval interpreters. I would be remiss, however, were I not to mention the recent debate started by G.E.L. Owen about the said-of/present-in distinction (Owen, 1965a). According to Owen, Aristotle did not accept the existence of non-substantial particulars. Instead, Owen argues…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aristotle-s-categories.md

6. 06 · blog0.802

   Aristotle nonetheless argued that change is distinct from time because change occurs at different rates, whereas time does not (Physics IV,10). This essay focusses on the topic of change, while not denying that the topic of time is inseparable from it. Motion, as change in place, will figure prominently in our discussion. One well-known idea is that of Cambridge change. This can be arrived at by following the well-tried analytical technique of re-casting philosophically important discussions and concepts in the meta-language. Thus a Cambridge change in a thing is a change in the descriptions (…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/change-and-inconsistency.md

7. 07 · yt0.800

   Even even when he's talking about metaphysics, he needs to dig the monarchy. only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. Okay? So, I'm not telling you that causes and effects don't exist. I'm not telling you they're illusions. I'm telling you they're not fundamental. They're not built into, and I'll explain what exactly what I mean by this. They're not built into the deepest, most comprehensive, most fundamental vocabulary we have for talking about the world. And yet, the bottle of water stops moving when I stop pushing it. Right? So the task of this talk is to reconcile those two f…

   yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.797

   For everything that happens, there is a cause or reason why. And again it's not crazy. In our everyday experience, that is kind of what we see. Things do not just happen. The book is not going to see just fly off into air. There seems to be reasons why things happen. If the book moves, it's because I moved it. And for Aristotle and for many other people, this metaphysical claim that things that happen do so because something causes them to happen, influenced their ideas about physics. So for Aristotle, if things are moving, it implies that something is moving them. There is a reason why things…

   yt/x26a-ztpQs8-the-big-picture-sean-carroll-talks-at-google/transcript.txt

9. 09 · blog0.796

   So, either ‘in’ means the same as ‘present-in’, in which case the definition is circular; or ‘in’ is itself in need of a definition, which Aristotle does not give. Hence, Aristotle’s first system of classification rests on technical concepts whose precise characterization is not settled by anything Aristotle says. Despite the lack of helpful definitions of these two concepts, there is a fairly straightforward, though certainly not uncontroversial, characterization of them that many scholars have adopted. By focusing on Aristotle’s illustrations, most scholars conclude that beings that are said…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aristotle-s-categories.md

10. 10 · yt0.795

    This is the real behavior of physical stuff in the universe. So Aristotle says, "I know what's going on. Motion is an unnatural state of being. There are natural ways for things in the universe to be places that things want to be in forms of motion that places and things want to have. And if you just let something go and don't disturb it, it will just sit there. It will not move. Motion requires an impetus, a mover. Something needs to be pushing it." This illustration stolen from the internet. The dog is not actually moving the car. You see the dog there, right? If you look very closely, there…

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