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 · _intake0.947

   > Well, absolutely, people just need to acquaint themselves with this. At school, I got to know Heraclitus, and I thought he was far more interesting than Plato. And then about 20, I read Alan Watts's Tao: The Watercourse Way, and that reconnected me with the pre-Socratic philosophers like Heraclitus. And it was another life-changing moment when I read that book. And since then Taoism has always been part of my thinking. So people can start by picking up books,

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/godhead/003-well-absolutely-people-just-need-to-acquaint-themselves-with.md

2. 02 · blog0.773

   Thomas in taking omnipotence to extend only to those powers it is possible to possess; Frankfurt (1964), on the other hand, essentially adopts the Cartesian line: Yes, of course God can indeed construct a stone such that He cannot lift it—and what’s more, He can lift it! (See also Savage 1967 for a related solution.) As we have seen, the target of Aristotle’s psychological (doxastic) version of LNC was Heraclitus: “It is impossible for anyone to believe that the same thing is and is not, as some consider Heraclitus said—for it is not necessary that the things one says one also believes” (Met. …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/contradiction.md

3. 03 · gutenberg0.757

   I propose to point out here how this book must be read in order to be thoroughly understood. By means of it I only intend to impart a single thought. Yet, notwithstanding all my endeavours, I could find no shorter way of imparting it than this whole book. I hold this thought to be that which has very long been sought for under the name of philosophy, and the discovery of which is therefore regarded by those who are familiar with history as quite as impossible as the discovery of the philosopher’s stone, although it was already said by Pliny: _Quam multa fieri non posse, priusquam sint facta, j…

   gutenberg/PG-38427-the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-1-of-3/PG-38427.txt

4. 04 · blog0.757

   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…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-magickal-history-fra-apfelman-internet-sacred-text-arch.md

5. 05 · yt0.756

   He says, "Yes, I call it the middle plateau, because that's where you do the exorcism. You You actually communicate with the demonic world from the intermediary realm." So, he knew how to access that realm, and had done it many many times in in his exorcisms. So, so the um One of One of that fascinates me about this icon is that this idea of the center because when you look at um well, I'm an artist. So, part of the reason I got interested in all this is from the standpoint of art, um boundaries are very, very important. Because um one of the things that generates creativity in art is having v…

   yt/8NWHGX53agc-dr-wolfgang-smith-renowned-physicist-on-vertical-causation-i/transcript.txt

6. 06 · archive0.752

   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.

   archive/sciemechacritica00machrich/sciemechacritica00machrich_djvu.txt

7. 07 · blog0.752

   Philosophical reflection does not set the end against the middle and the beginning in this way, but rather takes all three as integrating moments of a unitary total development.” The Preface to the second volume, on Mythical Thought (1925), invokes Hegel in the same vein, while also indicating Cassirer’s remaining fundamental disagreement with him. For Hegel [Hegel (GW 9, 23)]: “Science for its part demands that self-consciousness raise itself into this ether, in order that it may live with and for science. Conversely, the individual has the right to demand that science shall at least provide …

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

8. 08 · blog0.751

   Their common sense of meaning, their original guidance system, must be inactivated to keep them from asking questions such as �is that a disease or a theory?� Some patients find that their physician has little patience for their questions, but most patients don't want to ask questions, because they have been taught to respect the authorities. Our nervous systems are made up of physiology and culture. That can be a philosophical problem, because our experience is governed by our composition. In people like Heraclitus, physiology was in the foreground, and in people like Plato, culture was in th…

   blog/raypeat-com/how-do-you-know-students-patients-and-discovery.md

9. 09 · blog0.751

   Like other modernist philosophers and novelists (and Hegel himself), Anderson found in Heraclitus an inspirational alternative to what he came to regard as the sentimental and intellectually stifling idealism of his teachers. This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or man has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling and measures going out. (Heraclitus Fragment 20. trans. John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy 4th Ed., 1930, p.134.) Anderson acknowledged that Heraclitus’ emphasis on the element Fire might be read as a typicall…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/john-anderson.md

10. 10 · blog0.750

    Finally, the sophism must be true because “it signifies only that every proposition is false; and this is how things are [ ita est ]”, according to the case (S 9.8, 7 th sophism: 965). Buridan writes as if this particular sophism enjoyed some notoriety among logic teachers at Paris, although all but one of the alternative solutions he mentions were discussed and criticized from the very beginning of the insolubilia literature. These involve various ad hoc proposals that either build new assumptions into the case or else make up new rules about how the terms of the sophism are to be interpreted…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/john-buridan.md