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 · blog0.763

   To think it likely that \({\sim}A\) is to think it likely that a sufficient condition for the truth of “\(A \supset B\)” obtains. Take someone who thinks that the Republicans won’t win the election \(({\sim}R)\), and who rejects the thought that if they do win, they will double income tax \((D)\). According to Hook, this person has grossly inconsistent opinions. For if she thinks it’s likely that \({\sim}R\), she must think it likely that at least one of the propositions, \(\{{\sim}R, D\}\) is true. But that is just to think it likely that \(R \supset D\). (Put the other way round, to reject \…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/indicative-conditionals.md

2. 02 · yt0.750

   No in fact probably a 100 top physicists today want to start from the whole and derive the parts because they have understood that trying to go the other way gives you know leaves you empty-handed. Yeah. In fact, you know, string theory which tried to explain reality from the parts which are strings that vibrates [snorts] did not succeed. And you know, it took about 80 years of hard work. At one point 90% of the, you know, the physicist, the theoretical physicist were working on string theory. >> They didn't get anywhere. So that's that's telling you that no, we have to start with the wh…

   yt/cXlxCOoNZ7E-spacetime-is-the-memory-of-a-self-knowing-universe-federico-/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.748

   How do we know that this isn't just pure mathematics? And that would take us into a wonderful conversation along the lines of the material that we just discussed. So yeah, I think he would warm to these ideas pretty quickly. Do you think we're sort of in the realm of philosophy here? One of the criticisms that I see of string theory as somebody who doesn't understand the first thing about it is that because of this lack of experimental data, you can say that in principle it could be tested. But there are all kinds of philosophical theories that in principle we could test. Ideas about personal …

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.745

   in this video I'm going to discuss a comment that I got about this video I made a few months ago so this was the previous video in my playlist on the foundations of quantum mechanics so it was the meaning of quantum mechanics the Copenhagen interpretation and so this reply here that I got by uh Carl Hinman 2522 is what I'm going to be discussing and so I've copied this over onto a Word document here and uh his or her I actually don't know probably his I think their name is Carl but anyway uh their response here is in this dark blue where my writing will be in this sort of dark red here and so …

   yt/WSx0Qmt3wgY-was-niels-bohr-a-logical-positivist/transcript.txt

5. 05 · blog0.744

   267–268) that a theory has to be tested as a whole and “we may have latitude in deciding which parts of it there is need to revise” (Ayer 1973, p. 29). Because of that, a theory as a whole answers to experience and it becomes hard to decide which part of it is purely formal and which have factual content. Furthermore, by referring to Hempel’s “The Theoretician’s Dilemma” (1958), Ayer argues that quantitative concepts of science cannot be defined “in terms of what is actually observable” (1973, p. 32), and thus experience and observation cannot match the ‘openness’ of the texture of scientific …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/alfred-jules-ayer.md

6. 06 · blog0.742

   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

7. 07 · yt0.741

   Otherwise, at least as  a theorist, what are you doing? There needs to   be one new element in it. As I mentioned before,  I believe if you say, “oh, I have five new ideas   how things could be different at once,” I think  it's not manageable to deal with this. At least   I would claim that for myself. So let's say one  idea. And you know, if you have two brilliant   ideas and it works, my congratulations. I  just, you know, it's an indicator, right? So tiptoeing, tiptoeing the line. But now you have  a new idea and you have…

   yt/Bnh-UNrxYZg-frederic-schuller-the-physicist-who-derived-gravity-from-ele/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.740

   And then it tells you,   oh, but unless you choose this object to be  of this and that class rather than the other   class, a class it could have, then there's  an immediate contradiction. Well, you already   have learned you need this other class of object  and so on, another algebraic class or whatnot. Yeah. Can you be more concrete?  Can you give a specific example?   Maybe you're trying to tiptoe and  be diplomatic and non-offensive? No, no, no. No, not really. You see, that's  the problem of this. All I say are vague id…

   yt/Bnh-UNrxYZg-frederic-schuller-the-physicist-who-derived-gravity-from-ele/transcript.txt

9. 09 · _intake0.738

   “It was claimed” is suitably cautious. I’d not be surprised if this were true, however. The rest of the article ought to disturb people’s complacency, too, but I’m not sure it will.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/organizational-structural-failure-7-autophagy-fail.md

10. 10 · blog0.737

    Likewise, presumably, for many propositional attitudes: for the deductivist, what we might ordinarily describe as wondering whether 569 is prime should be understood as wondering whether the axioms deductively imply that 569 is prime; what we might ordinarily describe as doubting that 569 is prime should be understood as doubting that the axioms deductively imply that 569 is prime; and so on. A tentative suggestion might then be that the deductivist should take “\(Ax \vdash\)” to have narrow scope over force operators (asserting, wondering, doubting, etc.). Neither of these tasks—providing a w…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/deductivism-in-the-philosophy-of-mathematics.md