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 · blog0.727

   On this view you have a temporal part right now, which is a three-dimensional “time slice” of you. And you have a different temporal part at noon yesterday, but no temporal parts in the year 1900 (since you are not located at any time in 1900). Also on this view, the physical object that is you is a fusion of all of your many temporal parts. (Note: there is a variation on the standard four-dimensional view, which is sometimes called “the worm view”. The variation, known as “the stage view”, holds that names and personal pronouns normally refer, not to entire fusions of temporal parts but, rath…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/time.md

2. 02 · yt0.726

   Most people think of it instinctively from the sound of the phrase it must be the past. They in terms of media, of course, the thing that is occupying the foreground in terms of the rearview mirror is nostalgia. Nostalgia is the name of the game in every in every part of our world today including the program Roots. But nostalgia is not well, it's a kind of rearview mirror, if you like, but it's also the shape of things to come. Uh when people have been stripped of their private identities they develop huge nostalgia. And nostalgia for the jeans and and uh Levi's of the young today are nostalgi…

   yt/UoCrx0scCkM-marshall-mcluhan-the-medium-is-the-message-1977-media-savant/transcript.txt

3. 03 · blog0.713

   The sound of an ambulance siren differs from that of a police siren precisely because the two differ in patterns of qualitative change through time. The sound of the spoken word ‘team’ differs from that of ‘meat’ because each instantiates a common set of audible qualities in a different temporal pattern. These considerations support the view that sounds are event-like individuals (see Casati and Dokic 1994, 2005, Scruton 1997, O’Callaghan 2007, Matthen 2010). This may bear on debates about persistence in the following way. Differences in the intuitive plausibility of endurantism and perduranti…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/auditory-perception.md

4. 04 · blog0.702

   If a thing-at-\(t_{1}\) were identical with a thing-at-\(t_{2}\), then they should share all their properties. What sort of identity is it, if not that? But if the properties at different times are incompatible, then a contradiction follows. Because they emphatically took the view that contradictions are never true, the great Buddhist logicians Dharmakirti (C7th CE) and his commentator Dharmottara (C8–9th CE), who had certainly read their Aristotle, deduced that identity over time does not exist (see Scherbatsky (1930) vol 2). This is the Buddhist doctrine of moments, essentially an ontology o…

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

5. 05 · blog0.702

   (16′) Mary believes that ([the x : x is a present king of France]( x exists) and [the x : x is a present king of France & x exists]( x cleans my pool)) Mary’s belief is strange, but general for all that, so we can report it without being committed to the existence of a present king of France. Nor is this strategy necessarily limited to pronominal anaphora. Ludlow (1999, 2000) has argued that temporal and modal anaphora can be handled in a similar manner. In effect, one can take a temporal anaphor as standing proxy for a when-clause and a modal anaphor like ‘that’ in ‘that would have hurt’ as s…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/descriptions.md

6. 06 · blog0.697

   Thus, the difference between words and sentences depends on the way the two are composed in relation to time. Abelard sums this up by drawing an analogy with sight: “now I see the three stones placed before me all at once, with one glance; now I see them one after another successively, with multiple acts of looking” ( Tractatus de intellectibus , §34). These successive acts of looking are analogous to successive acts of attending in the composition of a complex thought. Against this doctrine, the Albricani mount an impressive, multi-pronged attack. Their arguments are preserved in H15 (I, §§10…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/alberic-of-paris.md

7. 07 · blog0.696

   For comparison, the referential relation between the indexical “now” and the time it refers to is neither reflexive nor symmetric, but this does not prevent us from explaining how “now” refers to a specific time in terms of simultaneity (between the use of the word and the time referred to), which is both. However, the example of a portrait brings us to another objection to resemblance theories of depiction, which Goodman mentions in passing (1968: 25), and others have accorded greater weight (Hopkins 1998b; Abell 2009). For if resemblance is a relation, and if the relata of a relation must be…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/depiction.md

8. 08 · blog0.694

   Yet, as Bergson says, “no two moments are identical in a conscious being” ( The Creative Mind , p. 164). Duration, for Bergson, is continuity of progress and heterogeneity; moreover, thanks to this image, we can also see that duration implies a conservation of the past. Indeed, for Bergson and this is the center of his truly novel idea of memory, memory conserves the past and this conservation does not imply that one experiences the same (re-cognition), but difference. One moment is added onto the old ones, and thus, when the next moment occurs, it is added onto all the other old ones plus the…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/henri-bergson.md

9. 09 · blog0.693

   So, let us start with the simplest argument that we can formulate. If we reflect on experience in general, what we cannot deny is that experience is conditioned by time. Every experience, necessarily, takes place in the present. In the present experience, there is the kernel or point of the now. What is happening right now is a kind of event, different from every other now I have ever experienced. Yet, also in the present, I remember the recent past and I anticipate what is about to happen. The memory and the anticipation consist in repeatability. Because what I experience now can be immediate…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/jacques-derrida.md

10. 10 · yt0.687

    Benjamin agrees with people who say, "Well, we go to the movies when we're tired. All we want is to be entertained." In fact, we are distracted. We are critics, as Benjamin argues, in a state of distraction. The German word is Zerstreutheit. We are zerstreut. We are perpetually, in other words, not quite paying attention even while at the same time we are seeing things from the camera-eye point of view. To see things from the camera-- I'll come back to distraction in a minute-- from the camera-eye point of view is a position of privilege because it exposes, as Benjamin tells us again and again…

    yt/FFpGf7aPXNA-17-the-frankfurt-school-of-critical-theory/transcript.txt