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 · _intake0.954

   > reality exists because this transcendent reality is by its very definition changeless and therefore perfect if X is true then X must never change absolutely central to Plato to st. Agustin to

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/godhead/002-reality-exists-because-this-transcendent-reality-is-by-its-v.md

2. 02 · blog0.800

   But if it exists in the understanding, it must also exist in reality. For it is greater to exist in reality than to exist merely in the understanding. Therefore, if that than which a greater can be thought existed only in the understanding, it would be possible to think of something greater than it (namely, that same being existing in reality as well). It follows, then, that if that than which a greater cannot be thought existed only in the understanding, it would not be that than which a greater cannot be thought; and that, obviously, is a contradiction. So that than which a greater cannot be…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/anselm-of-canterbury.md

3. 03 · blog0.796

   He in turn responded to these objections — sometimes in lengthy replies — though many contemporary readers have found his responses opaque and unsatisfying. We can better understand his replies and, in some cases, improve upon them by appealing to discussions from previous sections. One classical objection to the ontological argument, which was first leveled by Gaunilo against Anselm’s version of the proof, is that it makes an illicit logical leap from the mental world of concepts to the real world of things. The claim is that even if we were to concede that necessary existence is inseparable …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/descartes-ontological-argument.md

4. 04 · yt0.794

   If we're talking about a theory of everything, the first question we have to establish, does God exist? Yes. Simple as that. Yes. The reality has an identity. Okay. The identity is that as which something exists. Matter of fact, when you say the word reality, you're naming an identity. It is you're identifying something. This that's what the CTMU says. It's just comes up with the mathematical structure that you need to build a reality out of that. You see, so you come up with that identity and then you search it for its properties. You see once you've built the preliminary framework then you s…

   yt/usDVuyx0Myc-they-will-break-your-understanding-of-everything/transcript.txt

5. 05 · gutenberg0.793

   Explanation--Existence of this kind is conceived as an eternal truth, like the essence of a thing, and, therefore, cannot be explained by means of continuance or time, though continuance may be conceived without a beginning or end.

   gutenberg/PG-3800-ethics/PG-3800.txt

6. 06 · blog0.788

   The distinction also explains the derivation of celestial souls and bodies from supernal intelligences: in this respect emanation is nothing but the exposition of the dialectic between necessary existence and possible essence, which together constitute the intelligences’ being. This same distinction between a possible essence and its necessary existence can, finally, explain any causal relationship: a cause is ultimately nothing but that which allows the transition from the possible to the necessary, or that which makes possibility incline towards necessity. Certainly, a cause may, in its turn…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/ibn-sina-s-metaphysics.md

7. 07 · blog0.785

   Parmenides maintained that whatever one speaks about or thinks about must in some sense exist; if it did not exist then it is nothing, so one would be speaking or thinking about nothing, which would be empty. From this thesis, it is deduced that the existing thing cannot have come into existence, because to say that it could would be to speak of a time when it did not exist. By similar reasoning, existing things are eternal because they cannot go out of existence. It is now a small step to conclude that change is an illusion, on the grounds that a change in a thing implies that there was a tim…

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

8. 08 · _intake0.785

   This idea of reality becomes a physical mindset to us, a dogma if you will, based upon nothing but mathematically probabilities. This set of rules that governs the creation of reality is called quantum mechanics; it then connects these probabilities to model the observations we make in our environment. Honestly, it does not matter if the “our reality” is real or not. **It just matters that our reality matches up with the observations we make.**

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/quantum-biology-11-is-their-reality-your-reality.md

9. 09 · blog0.784

   It exists by its own power: [2] when we attend to immense power of this being, we shall be unable to think of its existence as possible without also recognizing that it can exist by its own power; and we shall infer from this that this being does really exist and has existed from eternity, since it is quite evident by the natural light that what can exist by its own power always exists. So we shall come to understand that necessary existence is contained in the idea of a supremely perfect being …. ( ibid .) Some readers have thought that Descartes offers yet a third version of the ontological …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/descartes-ontological-argument.md

10. 10 · blog0.784

    However, despite these clarifications, it must be conceded that the locution “ x exists only because y exists” is hardly very perspicuous, either as to its logical form or as to its exact meaning. Moreover, precisely because we have introduced the conjunction “because” as an explanatory conjunction, it may be felt that it is not well-suited to the ontological role now being devised for it (for one of the many recent attempts to specify the explanatory role of “because”, see deRosset 2013). There are perhaps two sources of worry here: first, that this approach invites a confusion between metaph…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/ontological-dependence.md