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 · archive0.724

   If statements of fact themselves depend upon the person who observes them, how much more distinct is the reflection of the per- sonality of him who gives an account of methods and of philosophical speculations which form the essence of science ! For this reason there will inevitably be much that is subjective in every objective exposi- tion of scieuce. And as an individual production is only significant in virtue of that which has preceded and that which is contemporary with it, it resembles a mirror which in reflecting exaggerates the size and clearness of neighbouring objects, and causes a p…

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2. 02 · archive0.707

   reader has to object to the deduction of Archimedes. This deduction from simple and almost self-evident theorems may charm a mathematician who either has an affection for Euclid's method, or who puts himself into the appropriate mood. But in other moods and with other aims we have all the reason in the world to distinguish in value between getting from one proposition to another and conviction, and between surprise and insight. If the reader has derived some usefulness out of this discussion, I am not very particular about maintaining every word I have used.

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3. 03 · gutenberg0.697

   What I here make public has, after a long and scrupulous inquiry, seemed to me evidently true and not unuseful to be known--particularly to those who are tainted with Scepticism, or want a demonstration of the existence and immateriality of God, or the natural immortality of the soul. Whether it be so or no I am content the reader should impartially examine; since I do not think myself any farther concerned for the success of what I have written than as it is agreeable to truth. But, to the end this may not suffer, I make it my request that the reader suspend his judgment till he has once at l…

   gutenberg/PG-4723-a-treatise-concerning-the-principles-of-human-knowledge/PG-4723.txt

4. 04 · yt0.694

   And one problem is that there are cultures-- there's something about Greek culture. Because it had science. It had experiments. Somebody has a theory, and they say, like Epimenides Lucretius. Somewhere in the society mind, I think I quoted Lucretius about translucent objects. And he says, they have the particular appearance, because the rays of light bounce many times before they get to the surface. So you can't tell where they started. And I don't find in eastern philosophy theories that say, here's what, I think, and here's a reason why. I've looked at Buddhist stuff, and it's strange lists …

   yt/-pb3z2w9gDg-1-introduction-to-the-society-of-mind/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.694

   Life and consciousness and thinking in the mind are somehow fundamentally different in the manifest image. But science says that's not true. Things like purpose, meaning, and morality are objectively given from somebody or something in the manifest image. Science says once again, it's a little bit more subjective than that. It's very subjective in this slide because uh the font got cut off. So, it just says purpose, meaning, and morality are I mean, that's not what it's supposed to say. It's supposed I forget. I'm I'm going to translate it. Really? Oh, personal. Also, the universe has moved. P…

   yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt

6. 06 · gutenberg0.693

   The general impression made was of crude issues and oppositions, of small subtlety and of a widely spread ignorance. Amateurishness was rampant. Samuel Bailey's 'letters on the philosophy of the human mind,' published in 1855, are one of the ablest expressions of english associationism, and a book of real power. Yet hear how he writes of Kant: 'No one, after reading the extracts, etc., can be surprised to hear of a declaration by men of eminent abilities, that, after years of study, they had not succeeded in gathering one clear idea from the speculations of Kant. I should have been almost surp…

   gutenberg/PG-11984-a-pluralistic-universe-hibbert-lectures-at-manchester-college-on-the-p/PG-11984.txt

7. 07 · blog0.692

   From a pragmatic point of view Mr. Sheldrake is behaving very much like our meteorologist, replacing mythic explanations with crypto-mythic "scientific" factors. Unfortunately, most scientific scholars tend to fear a devaluation of scientific termini tecnici; once they are mentioned in the wrong "context" (almost invariably meaning: by "wrong" people) they are readily labelled as "non-" or "pseudo-" scientific - which is, after all, precisely what happened to poor Mr. Sheldrake amongst his peers in spite of all his academic qualifications. This example goes to show how very much estranged occu…

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8. 08 · yt0.692

   Well, in that particular situation, talking to  Wolfram after 18 hours, I mean, I would say- It wasn't just him for 18 hours. I mean, that's an out-of-body  experience in itself, probably. Right. I have no vested interest in whether  or not anyone believes in any of it. Sure. I just find it fascinating. I find the  science fascinating, and in many ways, it's   a parallel to the Da Vinci Code. I started the  Da Vinci Code when I started writing it saying,   "I don't really believe in a bloodline of Jesus.  I mean, there's a lot of people who do.…

   yt/qFuYUSWwn7s-when-physics-meets-fiction-brian-greene-dan-brown-world-scie/transcript.txt

9. 09 · gutenberg0.692

   Such an argument, in my opinion, is fallacious; and of course those who advance it do not put it so shortly or so crudely. But whether valid or not, the argument has been very widely advanced in one form or another; and very many philosophers, perhaps a majority, have held that there is nothing real except minds and their ideas. Such philosophers are called 'idealists'. When they come to explaining matter, they either say, like Berkeley, that matter is really nothing but a collection of ideas, or they say, like Leibniz (1646-1716), that what appears as matter is really a collection of more or …

   gutenberg/PG-5827-the-problems-of-philosophy/PG-5827.txt

10. 10 · yt0.691

    Now, I um I've written three long chapters on science and three long chapters on reason in the matter with things extolling these as very important ways of arriving at an understanding of the world. But not on their own. They need supplementation by two other powers intuition and imagination. And of course they say, "Well, you know, but intuition, where's the security in that? Where's the security in imagination? It can lead us astray." But I can demonstrate that reason can easily lead you astray. In fact, as uh G. K. Chesterton, I think very wisely said about madness, that the madman is not s…

    yt/TDC9W1K4Rso-iain-mcgilchrist-how-to-escape-left-brain-thinking/transcript.txt