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 · blog0.730

   In the Metaphysics , Aristotle says that an eclipse of the moon does not have a final cause ( Metaph. VIII 4, 1044 b 12). He also says that, strictly speaking, a lunar eclipse does not have matter. Rather, it has a cause that plays a role analogous to matter. This second claim can be inferred from what Aristotle says about the things that exist by nature but are not substances. With respect to these things, Aristotle says that they do not have matter but rather something that underlies ( Metaph. VIII 4, 1044 b 8–9). In the case of a lunar eclipse, that which underlies is the subject affected b…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aristotle-on-causality.md

2. 02 · yt0.727

   Some researchers argue this alignment is coincidental that matching animal carvings to constellations requires assumptions about ancient star groupings that cannot be verified and that the mathematics of procession can be made to produce almost any desired date depending on which elements of the image you choose to emphasize. That is a serious objection and it deserves to sit with us for a moment rather than be moved past quickly. The night sky contains enough stars that almost any arrangement of figures can be made to correspond to some configuration at some point in time. And the human mind …

   yt/LQP3jPprCoQ-graham-hancock-s-g-bekli-tepe-theory-the-earliest-monuments-/transcript.txt

3. 03 · blog0.721

   From Aquinas on people were aware of this error in the translation.) Knowledge of mathematical truth occurs without any efficient or final cause in the picture, and we can see triangles, for instance, as they really are in themselves with a direct mental view, rather than attempting to reconstruct them, as we do in the case of thunder, for instance, where we know that some physical arrangement is producing a noise (has that as its function, as it were), but cannot view that physical arrangement directly. Thus mathematical demonstrations are higher ( potior ) than natural demonstrations, since …

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

4. 04 · yt0.709

   And as evidence they point to the mountain that is most famously associated with powerful gods of the ancient world, Mount Olympus, Greece. Rising over 9500 ft, this sacred mountain is the second tallest in the Balkan Peninsula. According to ancient myth, it was also the chosen home of immortal deities known as the Olympians. Mount Olympus hides a particularly mysterious abode where the gods live in perfect immortal repose for all of their existence. Even nowadays, clouds gather around the top of it. That's where it is assumed that the abode of the gods was up in the clouds that you weren't ab…

   yt/szDdhImC3Qg-ufo-mysteries-will-shock-you-marathon-ancient-aliens-history/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.708

   So for a map to exist in 1531 accurately showing the topography is pretty interesting. NARRATOR: When cartographers superimposed the Piri Reis map over a modern map of the world, they were amazed to discover that the ancient chart was fantastically accurate in the most minute of details. But how could the creators of a centuries old map have known of mountains or rivers that had yet to be discovered? In 1531, I really don't know of anyone who was flying above the surface of the Earth high enough to map topography. And how would they see underneath the ice? DAVID CHILDRESS: Their maps were so a…

   yt/UfPz00kHFyY-evidence-of-early-alien-contact-with-earth-ancient-aliens-s1/transcript.txt

6. 06 · blog0.707

   The elements did not have absolute “natural places”; and an elemental part, whether displaced from a whole or chancing to be near a whole, sought to attach itself to it because a whole was the place where it would be best preserved. Once united with a whole, elemental parts were no longer heavy or light and revolved with it naturally, that is, without resistance. This doctrine of gravity drew on Ficino’s Neoplatonic ideas of elemental motion, Copernicus’s doctrine of gravity, Lucretius’s comments on the weightlessness of parts in their wholes and scholastic notions of self-conservation (Knox 2…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/giordano-bruno.md

7. 07 · blog0.706

   (An insightful discussion of how Aristotle explains natural phenomena such as a lunar eclipse and sleep can be found in Code 2015: 11–45). This brief discussion of the explanation of an eclipse of the moon brings us back to a point that was already made in connection with Aristotle’s explanation of the production of an artifact such as a bronze statue. There too we are required to look for the most accurate description of the efficient cause, which is to be identified with the art of bronze-casting a statue rather than the artisan. It is possible to build on both examples to conclude that Aris…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aristotle-on-causality.md

8. 08 · yt0.704

   And they match very well. They're at the right angle. there at the right as mute in the sky and it's at the right time just before summer solstice sunrise. So that's my uh hypothesis is that that's what those those meaning of those three uh stones is. And so you've got a window of applicability for when the circle applied to uh uh the the meaning of of those central stones. And that window of applicability is about 6,400 BC to about 4,900 BC. And that window uh uh matches very well with the radio carbon dates that were found uh for the campfires and things in this location. So that's a very ve…

   yt/3KYhlv7KoyY-magical-egypt-episode-3/transcript.txt

9. 09 · blog0.703

   VERSE She was not invited to the party that they held on Limbo Peak;* So She threw a Golden Apple, 'sted of turn'd t'other cheek! O it cracked the Holy Punchbowl and it made the nectar leak; Her Apple Corps is strong! * "Limbo Peak" refers to Old Limbo Peak, commonly called by the Greeks "Ol' Limb' Peak." If a quixotic socrates studied zen under Zorba...? "The tide is turning... the enemy is suffering terrible losses" -Gen. Geo. A. Custer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ People in a Position to Know, Inc. ON PRAYER Mal-2 was once asked by one of hi…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/principia-discordia-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

10. 10 · gutenberg0.703

    Now, by the “Bear” and the “Wain,” he means the Arctic Circle; otherwise he would never have said, “It _alone_ is deprived of the baths of the ocean,” when such an _infinity_ of stars is to be seen continually revolving in that part of the hemisphere. Let no one any longer blame his ignorance for being merely acquainted with one Bear, when there are two. It is probable that the second was not considered a constellation until, on the Phœnicians specially designating it, and employing it in navigation, it became known as one to the Greeks.[15] Such is the case with the Hair of Berenice, and Cano…

    gutenberg/PG-44884-the-geography-of-strabo-volume-1-of-3-literally-translated-with-notes/PG-44884.txt