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 · gutenberg0.719

   I will continue calmly concerning persons with strong nerves who do not understand a certain refinement of enjoyment. Though in certain circumstances these gentlemen bellow their loudest like bulls, though this, let us suppose, does them the greatest credit, yet, as I have said already, confronted with the impossible they subside at once. The impossible means the stone wall! What stone wall? Why, of course, the laws of nature, the deductions of natural science, mathematics. As soon as they prove to you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it is no use scowling, accept it f…

   gutenberg/PG-600-notes-from-the-underground/PG-600.txt

2. 02 · _intake0.716

   I assured him that it was not only possible but based upon a scale of science he or I did not learn in medical school or residency. I believe I infuriated him when I told him that I believed he was a sucker to his beliefs that were given to him by his mentors in radiology. I know it was an “ego blow” to have a surgeon tell him, that something he was supposed to be an “expert in” reading had a lot more depth of information about matter and energy than he could fathom.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/redox-rx-2-biohacking-mri.md

3. 03 · blog0.709

   Although, once again, when the relevant skeptical possibilities are not raised, those experiences qualify as evidence sufficient for truthful ascriptions of “knowledge” that I have hands. Finally, some theorists have suggested that the context-sensitivity of sentences involving ‘know’ is owing to a more general context-sensitivity in certain explanatory relations and claims. For example, Steven Rieber (1998) has proposed that, in general, S knows that P iff “ the fact that P explains why S believes that P ” (1998, 194). According to Rieber, however, explanations are always at least implicitly …

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

4. 04 · blog0.707

   For he, who will write himself Doctor of either Medicine, ought to understand, know, and be well skilled in both, viz . the Internal and External Medicine. Nor should he be ignorant of Anatomy, that he may be able to shew the Constitution of the Body, and discover from what Member every Disease proceeds, together with its Fountain and cause. Also remedies, with which he may cure the Disease, and circumstances of external Wounds, are to be understood by him. Good GOD ! where will the Title be found, what will become of the Master, when an exact Trial shall be made, for discovering the ignorance…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/triumphal-chariot-of-antimony-by-basil-valentine.md

5. 05 · gutenberg0.706

   A few important letters have been translated, to the best of my ability, verbatim. In the not infrequent instances where I have been unable to extract any intelligible meaning, on grammatical principles, from the words of my author, I have put in the text the nearest approximation that I could discover to his meaning, and placed the unintelligible words in a note, hoping that my readers may be more fortunate in their interpretation than I have been.

   gutenberg/PG-18590-the-letters-of-cassiodorus-being-a-condensed-translation-of-the-variae/PG-18590.txt

6. 06 · blog0.703

   So that it will be almost as hard a matter for one that is born blind to understand the philosophy of colours, or one born deaf the nature and distinction of sounds, as for you to comprehend what I am about to say of a certain substance that is visible to some but not to you, palpable to some but not to you; and which therefore you have no kind of apprehension of. Philochrysus: I promise to be very attentive. Do me the favour but to satisfy me as far as you can. Philadelphus: Well, I will endeavour your satisfaction, after that you shall have answered me a question or two that I have to propos…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/on-the-philadelphian-gold.md

7. 07 · yt0.703

   And Gilbert Ling uh should have won two Nobel Prizes for all that he did, but he was controversial. Anyway, I listened to what he had to say. He said He said that biological water is different from water in a glass. So water in a glass, you know, the molecules are randomly oriented relative to one another and bouncing around at a fierce number of times each second or even each femtosecond. And and and he said, "No, no, the evidence the evidence is otherwise." He said "The molecules are organized like soldiers at attention." Um So he he referred to that as structured water. And I think some oth…

   yt/EWthpbsfMJI-dr-gerald-pollack-the-importance-of-water-for-energy-heart-h/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.700

   During the course of the reasoning there is a dramatic upwards shift in the standards governing what it takes for a tokening of ‘ S knows that p ’ to express a truth. In this way, an utterance of SA’s conclusion expresses a truth only because, owing to the introduction of a high-standards context, what it expresses is that the subject does not stand in an extraordinarily strong epistemic position with regard to the proposition that she has hands. But that , of course, is compatible with her meeting less demanding standards, such as those in play in ordinary contexts. Thus, DeRose says: …our or…

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

9. 09 · yt0.700

   So could we look at things in that way without as it were fixing labels and names and gradations and judgments on everything. But watch what happens. Watch what we do. Now you see if you do that you do at least give yourself a chance and it may be that when you are in this way freed from busy bodiness and being out to improve everything that your own nature will begin to take care of itself because you're not getting in the way of yourself all the time. You will begin to find out that the great things that you do are really happenings. For example, no great genius can explain how he does it. Y…

   yt/lHXisYGjvmM-alan-watts-mind-over-mind-self-improvement-grace-and-the-par/transcript.txt

10. 10 · _intake0.700

    **“It is often less difficult for a man of original thought to discover new truth than to discover why other people do not understand and do not follow him.” — Herman von Helmholz, MD and physicist**

    _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/energy-epigenetics-10-quantum-puzzle.md