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 · blog0.752

   Chaungo considers what it means for a proposition to be true and expresses what turns out to be a correspondence theory of truth — according to which the proposition “This is a bottle” is true if the object it refers to, this thing, is indeed a bottle. By pointing out that some people choose deliberately to be untruthful for unjust gain he also addresses the moral aspects of truth. Oruka’s survey of sages aimed to counter three negative claims regarding the philosophical status of indigenous African thought: Unlike Greek sages who used reason, African sages do not engage in philosophic thought…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/african-sage-philosophy.md

2. 02 · blog0.750

   When Buddhism and Daoism fused to form Chan (or Zen, to give it its Japanese name), a philosophy arose in which contradiction plays a central role. The very process for reaching enlightenment (Prajna) is a process, according to Suzuki (1969, p. 55), “which is at once above and in the process of reasoning. This is a contradiction, formally considered, but in truth, this contradiction is itself made possible because of Prajna.” Recent discussions of dialetheism have centered on Buddhist thought in particular, where some interpreters argue that texts invoke outright contradictions. For example, i…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/dialetheism.md

3. 03 · blog0.742

   Nonetheless, his views may well have changed over the years—not at all surprising, if, as some think, he made the more traumatic act of switching religious affiliation. It is in any event clear enough that his expressions, emphases, agreements and disagreements, inclusions and exclusions, were in part functions of the literary genre which he chose for any given work. He could be critical in his commentaries, insofar as he would look closely at the text he was explicating and cite alternative views, but he would not reject outright the views of the author whose work he was commenting upon. In h…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/ibn-kamm-na.md

4. 04 · blog0.737

   However, this has not happened in the case of other Jewish authors, although a number of more or less explicit or implicit references to Medieval Arabic and Islamic philosophy have been found by modern scholars in many Jewish authors, active in the period 900–1500: among the most well-known of them, are Jacob al-Qirqisani, Isaac Israeli, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Bahya Ibn Paquda, Abraham bar Hiyya, Joseph Ibn Zaddiq, Moses Ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Abraham Ibn Daud, Moses Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera, Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides), Moses Narboni, and Hasdai Crescas. Usually,…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/influence-of-arabic-and-islamic-philosophy-on-judaic-thought.md

5. 05 · blog0.737

   It has been observed that the thirteenth century was the time that “doing logic in Arabic was thoroughly disconnected from textual exegesis, perhaps more so than at any time before or since” (El-Rouayheb 2010b: 48–49). Many of the major textbooks for teaching logic in later centuries come from this period. 1.5.1 Râzî and Khûnajî In the fourteenth century, Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406) noted the ways that Arabic logic had changed from the late twelfth century on (he mentions a growing restriction of the subject to the syllogistic, and a concentration on the formal aspects of logic; see Text 14, 2.2.3 b…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/arabic-and-islamic-philosophy-of-language-and-logic.md

6. 06 · blog0.736

   (He planned, but never wrote, a fourth part of the System on the psychology of “cultural consciousness.” This fourth part was to provide the systematic foundation for the other three parts of the System [see Adelmann 1968 and Moynahan 2018].) Finally, although Cohen had been interested in religious questions throughout his career, in the last years of his life they were his overwhelming concern. It was during this period that he wrote his Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism . However, while Cohen’s interests and views evolved over the course of his career, his philosophy from all …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/hermann-cohen.md

7. 07 · wikisource0.736

   {{translations | original = דלאלת אלחאירין‎ | translated = The Guide for the Perplexed | author = Maimonides | year = c. 1190 | language = jrb | portal = Judaism | categories = Works originally in Arabic | notes = ''The Guide for the Perplexed'' is widely considered to be the most influential book of medieval Jewish philosophy. Originally written in [[:w:Judeo-Arabic languages|Judeo-Arabic]]. }}

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8. 08 · blog0.736

   [ 15 ] Of course, a fatwâ like this invites us to consider what logic mixed with philosophy might look like; one scholar mentioned in the study just quoted offers Baydâwî's Ascending Lights as such a logic (Baydâwî 2001). Baydâwî's logic itself seems harmless—a generalized Avicennan logic—, but it is placed directly before an exposition of a speculative theology strongly influenced by Avicennan philosophy. Different scholars would have held different positions, but for the fatwâ quoted, perhaps the context surrounding a logic text is all that matters in making it acceptable or not. 1.6 The Del…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/arabic-and-islamic-philosophy-of-language-and-logic.md

9. 09 · blog0.735

   Fraenkel himself argues that Del Medigo’s stance on the relationship between philosophy and religion fundamentally agrees with that of Averroes, according to which “the truth does not contradict the truth”. (Fraenkel 2013: 312; for Fraenkel’s discussion on Hübsch and Guttmann see 2013: 219) It is a significant fact that these scholars, while debating Del Medigo’s position on the relation between philosophy and religion, rely mostly on Del Medigo’s account in Beḥinat ha-Dat. The latter did, however, treat meta-philosophical issues present in the Italian works as well. In his Quaestio de efficie…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/elijah-delmedigo.md

10. 10 · blog0.734

    Del Medigo emphasises that philosophical speculation alone is insufficient from a religious standpoint, as the Jewish philosopher still shares with the masses a belief in the words and instructions of the Torah (2013: 294). The philosopher ought to supply the true interpretation of the biblical narrative, to be circulated only among those capable of philosophical reflection (2013: 294). Exceptions are the fundamental tenets of the Jewish belief, the validity of which ought not be grounded in reason, let alone questioned. Such tenets, which are beyond the reach of philosophical speculation, are…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/elijah-delmedigo.md