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 · _intake0.783

   “It was claimed” is suitably cautious. I’d not be surprised if this were true, however. The rest of the article ought to disturb people’s complacency, too, but I’m not sure it will.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/organizational-structural-failure-7-autophagy-fail.md

2. 02 · blog0.735

   Andy’s house is very difficult to find, so he hires Judy to stand at a crossroads and direct people towards the house (Judy’s job is to tell people that the party is at the house down the left road). Unbeknownst to me, Andy doesn’t want Michael to go to the party, so he also tells Judy that if she sees Michael she should tell him the same thing she tells everybody else (that the party is at the house down the left road), but she should immediately phone Andy so that the party can be moved to Adam’s house, which is down the right road. I seriously consider disguising myself as Michael, but at t…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/skepticism.md

3. 03 · blog0.730

   However, he disagrees with Korsgaard as to what the structure of an agent is, as to what its practical reasons are, and incidentally with Korsgaard’s insistence that being authored by the agent as a whole means not being authored by a proper part of the agent. Velleman’s position will make more sense if we bear in mind that it has more than one agenda; accordingly we will juxtapose two complementary entry points, and subsequently suggest that what looks like a third and independent motivation for the view is reachable from those. The sense of ownership in play in Velleman’s view is inherited f…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/practical-reason-and-the-structure-of-actions.md

4. 04 · blog0.729

   Whereas, if we take John and Mary’s stricter standard to be too demanding—if their denial of “knowledge” to Smith is false—then, not only must we reject the feeling that what they are saying is in some sense correct, but it is “hard to see how Mary and John should describe their situation”: Certainly they are being prudent in refusing to rely on the itinerary. They have a very important meeting in Chicago. Yet if Smith knows on the basis of the itinerary that the flight stops in Chicago, what should they have said? ‘Okay, Smith knows that the flight stops in Chicago, but still, we need to chec…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/epistemic-contextualism.md

5. 05 · blog0.728

   Fred tells Wilma that (\(p\)) there is beer in the fridge. It seems entirely reasonable to suppose that, in a normal run of events, this will cause Wilma to believe \(p\), and assuming that Fred isn’t lying he, too, believes \(p\). Hence Fred and Wilma believe\(_{\langle 1\rangle}\) \(p\). It is perhaps less evident, but still plausible that Fred and Wilma come to share the belief that they both believe \(p\). Hence Fred and Wilma believe\(_{\langle 2\rangle}\) \(p\). But will the recursion continue? Following Vanderschraaf and Sillari, we now reason as follows: Suppose that Fred and Wilma kno…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/common-ground-in-pragmatics.md

6. 06 · blog0.728

   What’s reported isn’t a belief in any of the familiar, tractable, Simple-Picture-friendly categories: it’s not a descriptive belief about the F , and it’s not a de re belief about a particular individual. So we need something additional to capture the doxastic state Perry reports himself as coming to be in when he says “I came to believe that I was making a mess”. There are two central argumentative threads at work here: An argument from ignorance : In the early parts of the story, Perry manifests a sort of ignorance, which drives his behavior. But it’s not (Perry argues) ignorance of any ordi…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/self-locating-beliefs.md

7. 07 · blog0.728

   As it has been claimed, “Agnostics about the truth of their assertions who nonetheless assert them without qualification tell lies” (Shiffrin 2014, 13). Against the addressee condition of L1 it has been objected that it is sufficient for lying that the untruthful statement is made, even if it is made to no one — not even to oneself (Griffiths 2004, 31). Lying may thus be defined as “conscious expression of other than what we believe” (Shibles 1985, 33). It has also been objected that it is possible to lie to third parties who are not addressees. In general, it is possible to distinguish betwee…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-definition-of-lying-and-deception.md

8. 08 · blog0.727

   This conclusion has prompted some to revise L1 to include more than one intention to deceive. According to the untruthfulness condition, it is sufficient for lying that the person who makes the untruthful statement intends that the addressee believe the untruthful statement to be true; it is not necessary that the addressee believe the untruthful statement to be true. That is, a lie remains a lie if it is disbelieved . If Sophie makes the untruthful statement to Nicole “I didn’t get any homework today,” with the intention that Nicole believe that statement to be true, and if Nicole does not be…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-definition-of-lying-and-deception.md

9. 09 · blog0.725

   They decide to check with the airline agent. ( Ibid ., 58) Once again, contextualists claim that regarding the truth conditions of sentences using ‘know’ as context-dependent makes best sense of the flexibility in our “knowledge”-attributing behaviour. While, as we have seen, different specific versions of EC are possible, contextualists tend to agree that, in everyday cases, such as that just described, the increased practical importance of the subjects’ “getting it right” tends to raise the standards for the truth of a sentence of the form ‘ S knows that p ’. (Keep in mind, though, a point s…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/epistemic-contextualism.md

10. 10 · blog0.725

    You remember that joyride that Balaam was taking on the ass. That was the only means of locomotion they had besides walking. It is the only one pretty near that they have now. Balaam wanted to get along too fast and he was beating the ass and the ass turned around and asked him what he was doing it for. In Hebrew, of course. It must have been in Hebrew for Balaam was a Jew. And Joshua Said to the Sun, "Stand Still." Is that true or is it a story? And Joshua; you remember about Joshua. He was a great general. Very righteous and he was killing a lot of people and he hadn't quite finished the job…

    blog/www-sacred-texts-com/absurdities-of-the-bible.md