Occam's Razor
A problem-solving principle that states the simplest explanation is usually correct. When faced with competing hypotheses, choose the one with fewest assumptions. It's a guiding heuristic in science, philosophy, and everyday reasoning.
Semantically Similar
Concepts with related meaning based on vector similarity
Cognitive Bias
Systematic patterns of deviation from rational judgment. Our brains use mental shortcuts that sometimes lead to errors—like confirmation bias, anchoring, or the availability heuristic. Understanding t...
The Ship of Theseus
A thought experiment about identity: if you replace every plank of a ship over time, is it still the same ship? This paradox explores questions of persistence, identity, and what makes something funda...
Emergence
When complex patterns arise from simple rules and interactions. Ant colonies exhibit intelligence no single ant possesses. Consciousness emerges from neurons. Cities from individuals. The whole become...
The Butterfly Effect
The concept that small causes can have large effects in complex systems. A butterfly flapping its wings might ultimately influence a distant hurricane. It illustrates chaos theory and the interconnect...
Quantum Entanglement
A phenomenon where two particles become correlated in such a way that measuring one instantly affects the other, regardless of distance. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance." It's now bein...
How similarity is calculated
Each concept is converted into a 768-dimensional vector using the nomic-embed-text
model. Similarity scores are calculated using cosine similarity—measuring the angle between vectors.
A score of 100% means identical meaning; lower scores indicate decreasing semantic relatedness.