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 · _intake0.752

   That is what differentiates Dr. Kruse—he is the most curious person I know — and in fact the answers that he has found weave a truth that is both discomforting and yet provides enormous hope. No matter how inconvenient that truth may be, we can’t solve our problems and improve our situations without it, and half-truths can be dangerous when they lead to dogmatism (and “whole lies” – as Dr. Kruse says.) If he hears something he doesn’t know about he seems to note it and actually later researches it – always asking “why” and trying to understand the heart of the matter. He has a prodigious (I su…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/physician-guest-blog-2-the-invisible-sun-and-purple-light.md

2. 02 · yt0.749

   No in fact probably a 100 top physicists today want to start from the whole and derive the parts because they have understood that trying to go the other way gives you know leaves you empty-handed. Yeah. In fact, you know, string theory which tried to explain reality from the parts which are strings that vibrates [snorts] did not succeed. And you know, it took about 80 years of hard work. At one point 90% of the, you know, the physicist, the theoretical physicist were working on string theory. >> They didn't get anywhere. So that's that's telling you that no, we have to start with the wh…

   yt/cXlxCOoNZ7E-spacetime-is-the-memory-of-a-self-knowing-universe-federico-/transcript.txt

3. 03 · gutenberg0.740

   This diversity is not so much an evil to be complained of, as an inevitable and in some degree a proper result of the imperfect state of those sciences. It is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself. To define, is to select from among all the properties of a thing, those which shall be understood to be designated and declared by its name; and the properties must be well known to us before we can be competent to determine which of them are fittest to be chosen for this purpose. Accordingly, in the case …

   gutenberg/PG-27942-a-system-of-logic-ratiocinative-and-inductive/PG-27942.txt

4. 04 · yt0.739

   Trying  to speak about them produces only confusion.  Now, let me show you why this theory seemed  irresistible to many brilliant minds.  The logical positivists of the Vienna Circle  seized on the Tractatus with enthusiasm.   Thinkers like Moritz Schlick and Rudolf Carnap  saw in Wittgenstein's work a way to finally put   philosophy on scientific footing. They developed  what they called the Verification Principle:   a statement is meaningful only if it  can be verified empirically or is true   by definition. Ever…

   yt/epzlGsgbVS8-he-changed-everything-twice-ludwig-wittgenstein-s-complete-p/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.736

   Uh whereas contemporary uh, physics and its reductionism, uh, but also our understanding of number, uh, seems to me to be to have a more, um, additive character in which wholeness is something that is achieved by the addition of parts, right? Rather than preceding the parts, where parts would be instead a division from the whole. Is this Do you Do you follow my distinction here? Yes, I uh, what you have touched upon here is, in my opinion, very, very central to the entire problem of uh, of ontology, namely the Platonist and the Pythagorean schools looked upon mathematics in a completely differ…

   yt/V_ZWBkSNMFg-platonic-physics-in-dialogue-with-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

6. 06 · archive0.736

   reader has to object to the deduction of Archimedes. This deduction from simple and almost self-evident theorems may charm a mathematician who either has an affection for Euclid's method, or who puts himself into the appropriate mood. But in other moods and with other aims we have all the reason in the world to distinguish in value between getting from one proposition to another and conviction, and between surprise and insight. If the reader has derived some usefulness out of this discussion, I am not very particular about maintaining every word I have used.

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7. 07 · yt0.735

   >> And and the thing >> I know Hilbert because it's Hilbert Space. Hbert Space. >> Tell me about that in a minute. But in this particular story, Einstein had visited Hilbert in June of 1915, showed him everything that he'd worked out for 10 years. Then Hilbert took it the final step and published before him. In the end of the day, Hilbert said, "No, no, it's your theory. It's your theory, Albert. I I'm not trying to take it from you." But he did publish a little before him. >> Even though he would not have published had Einstein not visited him. >> Yeah. He wouldn…

   yt/NxMMd5kMu7o-exploring-hidden-dimensions-with-brian-greene/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.735

   And one problem is that there are cultures-- there's something about Greek culture. Because it had science. It had experiments. Somebody has a theory, and they say, like Epimenides Lucretius. Somewhere in the society mind, I think I quoted Lucretius about translucent objects. And he says, they have the particular appearance, because the rays of light bounce many times before they get to the surface. So you can't tell where they started. And I don't find in eastern philosophy theories that say, here's what, I think, and here's a reason why. I've looked at Buddhist stuff, and it's strange lists …

   yt/-pb3z2w9gDg-1-introduction-to-the-society-of-mind/transcript.txt

9. 09 · wikisource0.735

   It remains to discuss briefly what general requirements may be justly laid down for the solution of a mathematical problem. I should say first of all, this: that it shall be possible to establish the correctness of the solution by means of a finite number of steps based upon a finite number of hypotheses which are implied in the statement of the problem and which must always be exactly formulated. This requirement of logical deduction by means of a finite number of processes is simply the requirement of rigor in reasoning. Indeed the requirement of rigor, which has become proverbial in mathema…

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10. 10 · gutenberg0.734

    The above remarks relate to the _matter_ of our critical inquiry. As regards the _form_, there are two indispensable conditions, which any one who undertakes so difficult a task as that of a critique of pure reason, is bound to fulfil. These conditions are _certitude_ and _clearness_.

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