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 · blog0.681

   But notice that these various senses have something in common: a reference to one central thing, health, which is actually possessed by only some of the things that are spoken of as ‘healthy’, namely, healthy organisms, and these are said to be healthy in the primary sense of the term. Other things are considered healthy only in so far as they are appropriately related to things that are healthy in this primary sense. The situation is the same, Aristotle claims, with the term ‘being’. It, too, has a primary sense as well as related senses in which it applies to other things because they are ap…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aristotle-s-metaphysics.md

2. 02 · _intake0.680

   THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE O6/O3 ratio is CONTEXT!!!!! This blog was really motivated by a conversation I had yesterday on the Santa Monica Pier with two college students who were going to attend the Ancestral Health Symposium at UCLA later today. I felt after speaking with them that this blog needed to be written because I think there is many mischaracterizations out there about Omega 6 fatty acids. They should not be vilified indiscriminately. We need a small excess of O6 to O3 normally in a healthy human diet.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/is-fish-oil-good-or-bad.md

3. 03 · blog0.680

   Determinates under the same determinable have the common relational property […] of characterising whatever they do characterise in a certain respect. Redness, blueness, etc., all characterise objects, as we say, “in respect of their color”; triangularity, squareness, etc., “in respect of their shape”. And this is surely quite fundamental to the notion of being a determinate under a determinable. (1949: 13) That determinates characterize objects in respect of their determinables is indeed a key feature of determination, though there remains disagreement about how best to metaphysically articul…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/determinables-and-determinates.md

4. 04 · blog0.679

   (1957: 129) Commenting on the role of analogy in Fourier’s theory of heat conduction, Campbell writes: Some analogy is essential to it; for it is only this analogy which distinguishes the theory from the multitude of others… which might also be proposed to explain the same laws. (1957: 142) The interesting notion here is that of a “valuable” theory. We may not agree with Campbell that the existence of analogy is “essential” for a novel theory to be “valuable.” But consider the weaker thesis that an acceptable analogy is sufficient to establish that a theory is “valuable”, or (to qualify still …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/analogy-and-analogical-reasoning.md

5. 05 · blog0.674

   Rosen and Smith (2004) suggest that vagueness may involve an object’s having a determinable without determinately having any corresponding determinate, and Wilson (2013) offers a determinable-based account of metaphysical indeterminacy as characteristically involving an entity (object, system) having a determinable but no unique determinate of the determinable, due either to there being too many candidate determinates (‘glutty’ indeterminacy) or too few (‘gappy’ indeterminacy); the latter determinable-based account has been applied to value indeterminacy in quantum mechanics ( see §5.3 ). The …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/determinables-and-determinates.md

6. 06 · pubmed0.673

   It is of greatest value in those situations in which statistical significance may bear little relation to clinical significance and a conventional analysis using p values is liable to be misleading. Perhaps most importantly, this includes circumstances in which an important public health or clinical decision must be based upon a study that has unavoidably low statistical power. However, it is also useful in situations in which a decision must be based upon a large study that indicates that an effect that is highly statistically significant seems too small to be of practical relevance. In the i…

   pubmed/PMID-9764283-clinical-significance-not-statistical-significance-a-simple/info.md

7. 07 · yt0.671

   Don't mind me, I'm just a smooth-brained at least apparently to the eminent, the incredibly intelligent, the all-knowing, all-powerful Dr. Jack Kruse. Now, you might ask, "Where did that come from?" Well, let's dig into this a little bit. So, I put out a little bit of a poll the other day. It was asking, you know, a simple question, "What do you feel is the most important determinant of health?" And I listed about five options in no particular order. They were nutrition, sleep, activity, exercise, stress, and circadian biology, or so-called light. Now, many people had different opinions on thi…

   yt/zYjCjKCcRsQ-my-tweet-that-set-jack-kruse-off/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.669

   8 for endorsement of such a view). 3. Contemporary accounts of determinables and determinates We turn now to canvassing contemporary accounts of determinables, determinates, and their relation. The main varieties of contemporary ontological accounts include anti-realist accounts, on which determinables do not exist; reductive accounts, on which determinables exist but are metaphysically reducible to (that is, identical with) some or other construction of determinates; and non-reductive accounts, on which determinables exist and are not metaphysically reducible to any construction of determinat…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/determinables-and-determinates.md

9. 09 · blog0.668

   He was among the first modern chemists to draw an explicit distinction between basic substances — the last point of chemical analysis — and simple substances , the actual components identified in analysis. Paneth argued that the basic substance conception could not serve as the proper basis for explaining the properties of compounds, because basic substances are defined purely by their role in analysis rather than by any intrinsic physical properties, and so lack the resources to ground such explanations. It is the simple substance , the physically characterized component actually present in a…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/philosophy-of-chemistry.md

10. 10 · blog0.665

    This usually is done by adding a minor proviso or caveat at the beginning of a discussion to that effect (Charland 2002: 37 note 1; Checkland 2001: 53, note 2; National Bioethics Advisory Commission 1998: Ch 1, note 4). The strategy has the virtue of avoiding the cumbersome repeated substitution of one term for the other in or across discussions where both are used. But it can also inadvertently perpetuate confusion of just the sort it is meant to obviate. For the rest of this entry the terms will be used interchangeably. Ultimately, what is most important is for readers to be aware of all thi…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/decision-making-capacity.md