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 · blog0.786

   4) The Sun is the father and the Moon the mother. 5) The wind carries it in its stomach. The earth is its nourisher and its receptacle. 6 The Father of all the Theleme of the universal world is here. 6a) Its force, or power, remains entire, 7) if it is converted into earth. 7a) You separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, gently with great industry. 8) It climbs from the earth and descends from the sky, and receives the force of things superior and things inferior. 9) You will have by this way, the glory of the world and all obscurity will flee from you. 10) It is the power…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/emerald-tablet-of-hermes.md

2. 02 · blog0.786

   Since the mythical world does not consist of stable and enduring substances that manifest themselves from various points of view and on various occasions, but rather in a fleeting complex of events bound together by their affective and emotional “physiognomic” characters, it also exemplifies its own particular type of causality whereby each part literally contains the whole of which it is a part and can thereby exert all the causal efficacy of the whole. Similarly, there is no essential difference in efficacy between the living and the dead, between waking experiences and dreams, between the n…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/ernst-cassirer.md

3. 03 · blog0.784

   Thus, our belief that the sun will come out tomorrow may be based on our beliefs that it came out yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that, and so on. Those premise beliefs, as we might call them, do not deductively entail that the sun will come out tomorrow. We certainly have available now more sophisticated inferential bases for believing that the sun will come out tomorrow than a mere inductive enumeration. We know that the solar system is relatively stable and will remain in its present state of equilibrium for billions of years. But that scientific knowledge is itself the re…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/skepticism.md

4. 04 · gutenberg0.783

   "The things that can be seen, heard, and learned," he says, "are what I prize the most." This is the language of the empiricist, to whom observation is the sole guarantee of truth. "The sun is new every day," is another fragment; and this opinion, in spite of its paradoxical character, is obviously inspired by scientific reflection, and no doubt seemed to him to obviate the difficulty of understanding how the sun can work its way underground from west to east during the night. Actual observation must also have suggested to him his central doctrine, that Fire is the one permanent substance, of …

   gutenberg/PG-25447-mysticism-and-logic-and-other-essays/PG-25447.txt

5. 05 · blog0.781

   Thus he noted that gradual/not-all-at-once are understood in terms of time, and time, following Aristotle, is defined in terms of motion, namely, as the measure of motion with respect to before an after. Consequently, complains Avicenna, an understanding of time requires that one already understand motion, but the suggested understanding of motion appeals to an understanding of time. In response to this objection, Abū l-Barakāt noted that both Aristotle ( Posterior Analytics , 1.13, 78a22–b32) and Avicenna ( Kitāb al-burhān , III.2, 202–3) recognize a difference between something’s being bette…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/arabic-and-islamic-natural-philosophy-and-natural-science.md

6. 06 · archive0.780

   "We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul".

   archive/essays_first_series_0708_librivox/info.md

7. 07 · blog0.780

   The reason for this is that, as noted just above, we tend to think of the past (and hence, states of the world in the past) as sharp and determinate , and hence fixed and beyond our control . Forward-looking determinism then entails that these past states—beyond our control, perhaps occurring long before humans even existed—determine everything we do in our lives. It then seems a mere curious fact that it is equally true that the state of the world now determines everything that happened in the past. We have an ingrained habit of taking the direction of both causation and explanation as being …

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

8. 08 · yt0.780

   Now the only thing that is needed in that case is to show that there is a self-consistency of this loop between the um you know the use of classical concepts as a limiting case and the use of the classical concepts as a presupposition and this proof of self-consistence I think has been given under the form of the coherence. The coance is can be read this way. Now let me come to uh describing some features of K's theory of knowledge and compare that to both Kantlike epistemology. Uh the I think the main point that has to be understood in Kant's philosophy of knowledge is what he called the cope…

   yt/pYRLapWBqJY-bohr-s-complementarity-and-kant-s-epistemology/transcript.txt

9. 09 · blog0.779

   It is our presence in the world which multiplies relations. It is we who set up this relationship between this tree and a bit of sky. Thanks to us, that star which has been dead for millennia, that quarter moon, and that dark river are associated in the unity of a landscape. It is the speed of our car and our aeroplane which organises the great mass of the earth. With each of our acts, the world reveals to us a new face. But, if we know that we are directors of being, we also know that we are not its producers. If we turn away from this landscape, it will sink back into its dark permanence. At…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/existentialist-aesthetics.md

10. 10 · archive0.771

    SALVIATI. Yesterday we resolved to meet today and discuss as clearly and in as much detail as possible the character and the efficacy of those laws of nature which up to the present have been put forth by the partisans of the Aristotelian and Ptolemaic position on the one hand, and by the followers of the Copemican system on the other. Since Copernicus places the earth among the movable heavenly bodies, making it a globe like a planet, we may well begin our discussion by examining the Peripatetic steps in arguing the impossibility of that hypothesis; what they are, and how great is their force…

    archive/GalileiGalileoDialogueConcerningTheTwoChiefWorldSystemsEN155P./Galilei, Galileo - Dialogue Concerning the two Chief World Systems (EN, 155 p.)_djvu.txt