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 · gutenberg0.777

   The problem of the connection of our thoughts. It depends on mechanical conditions. Association is of objects thought of, not of 'ideas'. The rapidity of association. The 'law of contiguity'. The elementary law of association. Impartial redintegration. Ordinary or mixed association. The law of interest. Association by similarity. Elementary expression of the difference between the three kinds of association. Association in voluntary thought. Similarity no elementary law. History of the doctrine of association.

   gutenberg/PG-57628-the-principles-of-psychology-volume-1-of-2/PG-57628.txt

2. 02 · blog0.767

   Something is in a category by reduction stricte if and only if it is not an aggregate, and, (a) like differences, it is a component of the reality of a thing which is in a category by itself, but the highest genus of that category is not predicated of it; or (b) it is the privation correlated to a certain property which, in turn, is in a category by itself; or (c), like extra-categorial principle such as God, the unity, and the point, it somehow instantiates the mode of being proper to a certain categorial field, but the highest genus of that category is not one of the constitutive elements of…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/robert-alyngton.md

3. 03 · blog0.767

   Since his “independent” relations are not conceived as grounded in their relata in such a way, they cannot relate. Bradley’s “real” relations might sound like internal relations to a contemporary ear. Internal relations, following Armstrong (1989: 43) and Lewis (1986: 62), are often characterized as relations that supervene on the intrinsic properties of their relata and that present no ontological addition. Common examples of such relations are taller than , being the same shade of blue , having the same mass . In contrast, external relations are frequently understood as relations the holding…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/bradley-s-regress.md

4. 04 · blog0.761

   The same argument form, however, has been used against the one-category ontology of qualities conceived as multiply occurring universals, as well as against the two-category ontology of particulars and universals. In fact, one of the most commonly cited versions of Bradley’s regress in contemporary ontological debate challenges the possibility of appealing to relations to unify particulars (such as electrons, apples, chairs) with their respective property universals ( negative charge , roundness , blackness ). The argument aims to show that any appeal to a relation R (of instantiation, exempli…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/bradley-s-regress.md

5. 05 · blog0.760

   Things relevantly similar to, or “matching” ( zhòng 中), the fǎ would be shì (right, this); anything not relevantly similar would be fēi (wrong, not-this). The theory of fǎ applied not only to ethics but to other areas of thought as well. In epistemology, for instance, it could be applied to explain what it is to know something: it is knowing how to correctly distinguish what does or does not match the fǎ for that sort of thing. To determine whether some claim ‘ A is B ’ should be accepted, we compare A to the fǎ for B to see whether they are similar. To determine whether some doctrine is right…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/mohist-canons.md

6. 06 · pubmed0.759

   What is the relationship between the language people use to describe an event and their moral judgments? We test the hypothesis that moral judgment and causative verbs rely on the same underlying mental model of people's actions. Experiment 1a finds that participants choose different verbs to describe the major variants of a moral dilemma, the trolley problem, mirroring differences in their wrongness judgments: they described direct harm with a single causative verb (Adam killed the man), and indirect harm with an intransitive verb in a periphrastic construction (Adam caused the man to die). E…

   pubmed/PMID-28150958-kill-or-die-moral-judgment-alters-linguistic-coding-of-causa/info.md

7. 07 · blog0.759

   The lowest of the created intellects—namely, the Agent Intellect—creates the form and matter of the sublunary world, as well as the rational souls of individual human beings. Avicenna adapts his account of emanation from al-Fārābī (870–950), known among the philosophers as the “Second Teacher”, though his version of emanation differs from that of al-Fārābī in several ways (Davidson 1992). Avicenna’s hierarchical account of agency acknowledges the superiority of divine causation and identifies the differences between creative and non-creative efficient causes. Still, it supports his earlier sug…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/causation-in-arabic-and-islamic-thought.md

8. 08 · yt0.757

   One of the things that happens when you demystify the relationship between a concept and a signifier or a sound image is that you also demystify the relationship between a set of associations, which exist somehow in space, and the way in which association actually takes place, which is necessarily in time: in other words, if one signifier leads to another--if like history, where there's one damn thing after another, speech is one damn signifier after another-- then that is actually the nature of the associations that Saussure has been talking about in the first place. But it doesn't exist in a…

   yt/Np72VPguqeI-10-deconstruction-i/transcript.txt

9. 09 · blog0.757

   He compares the case to the activity of a craftsman, where the form of the product of the artistic production is in the soul of the craftsman, and then through the motions of the instruments this form can get imposed on the material manufactured into an artefact. The instruments and their motions are efficient causes of the process, but they do not contain the form in the same way as the soul of the craftsman ( On the generation of animals 730b14–23 and 740b25–29, for further discussion see the entry on Aristotle’s biology ). [ 30 ] All these restrictions notwithstanding, Aristotle can claim t…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aristotle-s-natural-philosophy.md

10. 10 · blog0.756

    There is no definitive upper limit to the sophistication of the deceiving speaker’s calculations. In addition, the speaker may simply be stonewalling, reiterating an assertion without any hope of convincing the addressee of anything. A more neutral way of trying to capture the relation between assertion and believing was suggested both by Max Black (1952) and by Davidson (1984: 268): in asserting that p the speaker represents herself as believing that p . This suggestion appears to avoid the difficulties with the appeal to hearer-directed intentions. A somewhat related approach is taken by Mit…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/assertion.md