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 · _intake0.877

   > Timeless and eternal once I've like through excess and it's graduated to my unconscious it becomes a goddamn platonic form I never even have to think about it again it's always the same it

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/godhead/009-timeless-and-eternal-once-i-ve-like-through-excess-and-it-s-.md

2. 02 · yt0.767

   I have screwed up so many relationships, right? And and I've, you know, marriages and like the whole bit. I'm finally with the person I'm going to be with for the rest of my life. This is through long study and lots of failure, right? But that relationship where you have where the other person is an icon and not an idol is so humanizing. Look, Plato's great lesson is we need to have the English word isn't good. It's tension and tension is just negative for us. But the the Greek word is tonos. Like the tonos of a bow or a liar. It's the tension that that makes things possible. Okay. So for Plat…

   yt/NOwnb6CkFlQ-humanity-s-meaning-crisis-what-ancient-wisdom-modern-psychol/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.765

   I I'm still with the fact that I think John just called me an Aristotelian before. I haven't gotten over that yet. We'll have to talk about that later. We'll have to go through that. Um I wish I knew Jonathan. Like I don't know how consciously I do it. I think I've just been sitting with it for so long. Mhm. And that's not to say John doesn't make new obviously. He's always pushing and and contriving to overwrite himself and to create new theoretical to to push to push the horizon of the theory. So it's not as though he stays in one place. He doesn't. But I've been sitting with it and with him…

   yt/L3vn-fSx7VE-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-with-john-vervaeke-and-chr/transcript.txt

4. 04 · blog0.751

   The philosophical question here is how to construe such statements of identity and nonidentity, and it seems that the problem of universals is the main issue. A narrower usage of “change” is exemplified by change in the properties of a body over time, that is temporal change. This essay will focus on temporal change. We begin by separating the concept of change from several cognate concepts, specifically cause, time and motion. Then we briefly survey attempts by such thinkers as Parmenides and McTaggart to deny change. There follows an account of the problem of the instant of change, where it …

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

5. 05 · gutenberg0.746

   These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven. I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated. You are well acquainted with my failure and how heavily I bore the disappointment. But just at that time I inherited the fortune of my cousin, and my thoughts were turned into the channel of their earlier bent.

   gutenberg/PG-84-frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus/PG-84.txt

6. 06 · gutenberg0.746

   The Platonic doctrine of reminiscence is then adduced as a confirmation of the pre-existence of the soul. Some proofs of this doctrine are demanded. One proof given is the same as that of the Meno, and is derived from the latent knowledge of mathematics, which may be elicited from an unlearned person when a diagram is presented to him. Again, there is a power of association, which from seeing Simmias may remember Cebes, or from seeing a picture of Simmias may remember Simmias. The lyre may recall the player of the lyre, and equal pieces of wood or stone may be associated with the higher notion…

   gutenberg/PG-1658-phaedo/PG-1658.txt

7. 07 · blog0.744

   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

8. 08 · wikisource0.744

   === 20 === When we renounce learning we have no troubles. The (ready) 'yes,' and (flattering) 'yea;'-- Small is the difference they display. But mark their issues, good and ill;-- What space the gulf between shall fill? What all men fear is indeed to be feared; but how wide and without end is the range of questions (asking to be discussed)! The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying a full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem listless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence. I am like an infant which has not yet smiled…

   wikisource/t-o-teh-king/page.txt

9. 09 · yt0.738

   The second thing is that it's [snorts] not just individuals that have to make these choices between two different ways of viewing the world. [snorts] And most most of the time we we don't obviously consciously choose. It just happens. In a society that relentlessly feeds back to us a mechanistic rationalistic vision of the world, there is no room for all the things that really matter to us. And this is where I want to come back to the implicit. Everything that matters to you is degraded when it is made explicit. The most obvious example is a joke. Once you've made it explicit, it's just not fu…

   yt/FOsX666lCPk-how-left-brain-thinking-is-killing-civilization-dr-iain-mcgi/transcript.txt

10. 10 · blog0.738

    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