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magnio
A bit tangential but what is the license of content on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy? Is it CC ShareAlike like Wikipedia or something else?

I wanted to make a Zim file for SEP, but couldn't find a content dump like that of Wikipedia, and I don't know if scraping the site for content is okay.

ggrrhh_ta
from https://plato.stanford.edu/info.html: "crawl each entry for indexing (subject to reasonable network usage constraints), and distribute each entry only as permitted below provided that the purpose of the distribution is non-commercial."
kieckerjan
Nice clean graph interface! Better for exploring than the usual force directed graphs that pop up everywhere. (Would love to have it in Obsidian.)
trutannus
This is an excellent idea -- I'd use it. If you can think of a way to do this, I will implement. Maybe with some hidden MD files that contain tags and automatically hyperlink?
kieckerjan
Well, Obsidian already has a graph view. I don't know how it is implemented, but it seems clear to me that the underlying data can be used to build the (simpler) graph discussed here.
drdeca
Kind of a nitpick, but it appears to break the back button? I saw that it doesn’t support my mobile screen resolution at this time (which is reasonable), so I hit back, but it appeared to forward me back forward to the same page. Pressing the back button twice in quick succession also didn’t work for me.
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Same on desktop
bourgwaletariat
To be fair, it breaks the forward button too. Tip: Hold the long click the back button, select prior page from list.*

* depends on your browser, of course.

trutannus
This is amazing. As a philosophy enthusiast, this will help me find more related works to read.
SCLeo
The author could really use some user-select: none;

I kept trying to drag the graph, but ended up selecting a bunch of text, which is a somewhat unpleasant user experience.

mudil
What's amazing is that Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy still has no information on works by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, perhaps the most influential philosopher of this century. My guess is that they are excluding him because of his non-pure academic background. In due time, he is going to get his recognition...
Jiocus
What a great tool. I've been reading articles of theirs for the past couple of days. Makes it easy to spot outlier topics and less obvious relations (like ‘primary domains’ vs ‘other domains’).

I think it's the first time I'm actually enjoying navigating information in this way. Perhaps it's because the encyclopedia is already very structured (and the nature of the topics).

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Some here complain about a back button, but I don't know. I haven't tried it yet, and I think I stay for a while.

My back button breaks on GitHub when using Firefox with the standard armory of privacy addons. I thought this was their 'fault' and felt quite frustrated about it. I discovered just now that I don't experience the same issue on a stock Vivaldi. Maybe I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions :)

Gregam3
This is incredible, I have been building out my own version of this based on my readings (using https://obsidian.md/).

It's fascinating to see it at this scale.