I'm quite open to the Hegelian criticism/solution, but I just haven't got around to reading him yet. I'm a bit more familiar with Wittgenstein's angle...
Seems reasonable. A rational being for Kant is one with that active faculty, your number (2), i.e., the understanding, which is the spontaneity of the...
@"ssu" Yes, I should point out that I don’t mean to say those threads contain nothing but low quality bickering, rather that, as Baden says, there is ...
Yes, non-philosophical discussions were dominating the main page and were the most active. The idea of putting current affairs, science, etc. on the m...
The noumenon? It’s a critical concept: philosophers like Leibniz built systems around noumena, and Kant is diagnosing this disease. He also thinks he ...
Good, difficult questions. I’m trying to use it as Kant did, to refer to universally valid judgements about the objects of experience. By “universal” ...
:up: Is it that it lies in an uncanny valley or a liminal space between the pre-modern and the modern? That it’s strange and familiar at the same time...
On second thoughts, I don’t think it is worded very well. At least, it’s not precise enough. It might be asking a general question about perception: d...
Looks like the person who formulated the question has that background in mind. Whether Owen’s daughter is expected to know that or has any such readin...
Still works. For “unperceived” you could think “continued, when we’re not perceiving it”. The question as asked is just very condensed and terse. @"Ow...
@"OwenB" You will probably get many answers that are useless or worse, like the one I’ve quoted here. I hope someone will come along and suggest a goo...
Great post. I particularly appreciate two things: the analogy of writing, which I’d never thought of before (I’ll probably use that in future); and th...
This was the very first response in the discussion and it might still be the best one. It eschews a direct engagement with the OP's argument and inste...
I got it straight from this: Here, you imply that we cannot see objects, for the reason that light intervenes between the objects and the visual syste...
I'm not going to get into it this time. This is partly because I don't like the debate any more, but also because since you developed your more reason...
Yes, I understand. You can be a phenomenalist or indirect realist without making mistakes like “all we see is light”. So yeah, your view is more advan...
Thanks, I’d never heard of it. I see it’s on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZPIysn6JOcU?feature=shared As is the 1971 Soviet adaptation. Curious how they c...
Ah, so you’re one of those guys! —I can see rain over there behind that hill —Actually, you can’t —What? —All we see is light! —Oh my God, this shit a...
Yes, that’s probably his second most popular book. It was made into a very good TV movie in the 1980s, which I actually like better than the book: htt...
Finished. Score: 4.2/5. Susanna Clarke must have been influenced by it when she wrote Piranesi. Next: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo Inverted...
I liked it a lot. It has a kind of mainstream aesthetic, but many of the memorable scenes and locations fitted with what I’d imagined (and improved up...
Stream of consciousness is cool in modernist fiction but confusing in this context. :wink: Anyway, it’s rhetorical bluster with a hint of bullshit, bu...
You reap what you sow. Since I invited you a couple of months ago you've been arrogant, snarky and insulting to people. And you like to throw around t...
Initially you seemed to be asking for someone to correct your interpretation of Kant if you’d got anything wrong, which is the only reason I commented...
Tomorrow I’m going to see the new film adaptation of The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. This is interesting for a few reasons. The director, Michae...
Remind me who you are? I’m so droll. But seriously, you’re a likeable chap so don’t be so hard on yourself. Hey wait a minute. If you were fishing for...
Preliminary to answering Camus in full, we can say that a necessary condition for a life worth living is being free to choose how your own toilet pape...
Finding happiness requires a whole bunch of circumstances to align just right, but there are infinitely many ways that it can remain unattained. Or, u...
Ah, that’s not so bad then :smile: Yes, I regret doing that, since there was another way I could have hidden it from the internet. By the way, the Sym...
I have never claimed anything like that, so I don’t know why you’d be looking for it from me. Of course, I actually do. You’ve said it yourself: you t...
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