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 · blog0.708

   By contrast, it is still a genuine possibility for you to stop reading this entry. It is difficult to overestimate the role of the distinction between abstract (metaphysical, logical) modality and historical (real, “local”) modality in our self-representation as agents and in our inferential, epistemic and linguistic practices. In Prior’s view, the distinction is not just a human construction and is also rooted in mind-independent reality. Prior subscribed to indeterminism, and thought that at least some particular events were objectively “open”, not already present in their causes (see, e.g.,…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/branching-time.md

2. 02 · blog0.702

   And as a piece of standard English this can hardly be wrong. Indeed, I must confess I do not really think it is wrong at all: the theory of truth is a series of truisms. Still, it can at least be misleading. (1950a: 121) The two obvious sources of potential misdirection in the formula that Austin endorses here are its appeal to correspondence and its appeal to facts . [ 7 ] Austin attempts to prevent our being misled by explaining how those two appeals ought to be understood. Austin’s focus in his “Truth” (1950a) is mainly on the nature of correspondence. He deals more fully with facts in his …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/john-langshaw-austin.md

3. 03 · _intake0.700

   Complex modern societies are now constructed on a sort-of “paternalistic model” with the idea of a limited number of specialized hierarchical leaders (in government, science, and industry) and a great number of followers. The approved leaders in a field “interpret the facts” and establish the “version of truth,” a.k.a., dogma, upon which the official story will be disseminated through appropriate channels and authorities. The dogma is constantly revised, BUT its revisions, like its construction, are loosely but not purely based on factual discovery. They are heavily edited and revisions are in…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/tensegrity-3-epistemology-vs-social-dogma.md

4. 04 · yt0.699

   I've written this very slowly because I don't know, you'll find this in many advanced books, but you may not find it in our textbook. So if you don't follow something, you should tell me. There's plenty of time to do this, so I'm in no rush at all. These are purely mathematical manipulations. We have not done anything involving physics. You all follow this? Yes? Okay. Now you have to ask yourself the following. I love this argument. Even if you don't follow this, I'm just going to get it off my chest, it is so clever, and here is the clever part - this is supposedly a function of time, you agr…

   yt/Iy6RspNw80E-24-quantum-mechanics-vi-time-dependent-schr-dinger-equation/transcript.txt

5. 05 · blog0.699

   Rulers could use these texts to regulate state ritual activities over the course of the year. The ordinances cover such topics as state activities (fortification, planting, etc.) and the consequences of performing activities at incorrect times. These are the first texts in the received tradition to link the twenty-eight Lunar Lodges to the months of the year, associating each month with a lodge, which indicates the position of the sun among the stars for that month. (Ancient Chinese astronomers divided the celestial equator around the pole star into twenty-eight “lodges” ( xiu 宿), each named b…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/science-and-chinese-philosophy.md

6. 06 · blog0.696

   If it does, then we are left saying “When A , B , C , … Ted will then go to the fridge for a beer, unless D or E or F or … or Ted decides not to do so.” The marionette strings of a “sufficient cause” begin to look rather tenuous. They are also too short. For the typical set of prior events that can (intuitively, plausibly) be thought to be a sufficient cause of a human action may be so close in time and space to the agent, as to not look like a threat to freedom so much as like enabling conditions. If Ted is propelled to the fridge by {seeing the game’s on; desiring to repeat the satisfactory …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/causal-determinism.md

7. 07 · gutenberg0.695

   Mrs. Taylor's assistance in the _Political Economy_ is confined to certain definite points. The purely scientific part was, we are assured, not learnt from her. "But it was chiefly her influence which gave to the book that general tone by which it is distinguished from all previous expositions of political economy that had any pretensions to be scientific, and which has made it so useful in conciliating minds which those previous expositions had repelled. This tone consisted chiefly in making the proper distinction between the laws of the production of wealth, which are real laws of Nature, de…

   gutenberg/PG-34901-on-liberty/PG-34901.txt

8. 08 · blog0.693

   Now it is surely quite evident that, if the beginning of a certain process at a certain time is determined at all, its total cause must contain as an essential factor another event or process which enters into the moment from which the determined event or process issues. I see no prima facie objection to there being events which are not completely determined. But, in so far as an event is determined, an essential factor in its total cause must be other events . How could an event possibly be determined to happen at a certain date if its total cause contained no factor to which the notion of da…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/charlie-dunbar-broad.md

9. 09 · _intake0.692

   Bucket Canon holds **only foundations** — axioms, real math, rules, laws, principles, primary derivations across the seven branches. Government UAP records are **primary historical/observational documents**, not foundations. They do not belong in `bucket-canon/` proper.

   _intake/war-gov-pursue-release-01/README.md

10. 10 · blog0.688

    Second, due to the time-dependency of Hellenistic propositions, Philo’s criterion implies that conditionals can change their truth-value over time: for instance, ‘If it is day, it is night’ is true at night, but false during the day. This is counter-intuitive as regards the ordinary use of if-sentences. Moreover, as the concept of a conditional was also meant to provide for logical consequence between premises and conclusion, this leads to the problematic result that arguments can in principle change from being valid to being invalid and vice versa. 3.2 Diodorean Conditionals For Diodorus, a c…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/dialectical-school.md