Bob Ross

Hello 180 proof, For me, since I am not grasping exactly what the terms you are using are denoting, this just becomes a circular loop: conceptual supp...

Hello Pantagruel, If the sensations are fabricated, then I would never know it; but, yes, they would be unreliable with relation to whatever actual ex...

Hello Tom Storm, I have read critique of pure reason, prolegomena, and the groundwork for the metaphysics of morals. I working on reading his critique...

Any book suggestions? Or counter arguments to transcendental idealism that you find hold weight?

What do you mean by a conceptual supposition or interpretation? Facts can make a concept true or not true--e.g., the concept of a cat.

Yeah I could see why, since we share a bit of scientific anti-realism (at least metaphysically).

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Not knowing anything about X does not entail knowledge of anything about X. Another way to put it, is that I have only negative knowledge of X by nega...

I am not following: could you please elaborate? I don't see any proof offered by Kant that actually proves (transcendentally) that my intuitions are n...

Hello Manuel, Absolutely no worries! Interesting. To me, either I can sit on something, in the strict sense of being actually capable (and not whether...

Hello Mww, One cannot transcendentally nor empirically prove that there are real (in the sense of non-fabricated) objects which excite their senses or...

Hello Janus, They are not actually undecidable just because no person is currently capable of deciding it. For example, imagine we are incapable of re...

I guess I am just not following why one would believe that truth-aptness is tied to suggestive evidence from reality as opposed to be merely, in princ...

Hello baker, Ultimately, the same way, I suppose, that we derive that there is something at all which exists independently of persons: intuitions and ...

I think the difference between our views on truthmakers is that I seem to think that what qualifies a statement as truth-apt (truth-bearing) is that i...

Philosophical statements are propositional, because they are truth-apt. Let's take one of your previous examples (of a philosophical statement that yo...

Absolutely no worries, my friend! I look forward to you response!

I read the article you mentioned, and I don't see how it helps your case (but perhaps I am misunderstanding). I am not talking about truth-bearing sta...

Hello Manuel, That is fair and I agree now. I think we must be able to get at some transcendent truths to get the whole transcendental philosophy afoo...

Hello L’Elephant, I apologize for the late response! I don’t define morality with a split between society and self: I define it as simply what is righ...

Hello Baker, I apologize for the belated response! I am not following the relevance of this (to our original conversation): could you please elaborate...

Hello 180 Proof, I am sorry for the later response! I got rather busy, but I did not forget about your response. The same way that a moral law can exi...

Hello Manuel, I am sorry for the late response, my friend! I have not forgotten your response, but haven’t had the time to respond. Firstly, after dig...

Hello Corvus, I apologize for the belated response. I was very busy the past week (or so), but I can assure you that your response was not forgotten. ...

In its most broad sense, the study of that which is right and wrong (viz., what is permissible, omissable, obligatory, and impermissible).

Hello Corvus, Then, what is your definition? I don’t remember you ever giving one (although I may just be misremembering). Could you please give me an...

Hello Manuel, How do you know this? Those experiments are just experiences more precisely and rationally carried out (than every-day-to-day ones). Thu...

Sure, I can get on board with that. But it doesn't give us knowledge of reality (other than knowledge of human conceivability).

Hello 180 Proof, Why is this relevant? Can a statement not be truth-apt without having a truth-maker? Without any mind to construct the proposition, t...

Hello Joshs, Oh, I see. What about initial experience then? Or were you conveying a priori knowledge as opposed to “prior experience”? This sounds an ...

Hello 180 Proof, We must be using the term ‘proposition’ toto genere differently. By it, I mean a grammatical statement that expresses something that ...

Hello Joshs, Correct. He derives transcendental truths. But the problem (I have with him) is that he derives them with the presumption that things sti...

Hello Manuel, How do you know how accurate the knowledge humans can gain through the prism of their experience to reality? Why can’t reality be, for e...

For most moral realists, of course there is a need to discuss the moral facts so that we can discover them. It absolutely does not. Moral realism is t...

I do not claim that reality in-itself has time nor space: only that our forms of experience are time and space.

Hello Corvus, They are impurely imaginative, like science, which is fine so long as the claims are constrained to the forms by which they are attained...

Hello 180 Proof, Yes they absolutely are. Give an example of a ‘philosophical statement’ which is not a proposition which references the world in any ...

Thank you: I will look into it and get back to you.

Hello 180 Proof, But this is clearly a straw man. I didn’t try to define that which is beyond the possibility of experience: I defined a term as whate...

That's fair. I distinguish the two to separate two mindsets: the former being just one who wants to be able to predict experience, and the other think...

Hello Pantagruel, I agree...but, I would say that this claim is also conditioned by one’s experience; and whatever is beyond your experience could be ...

This just sounds like a tautology built off of the definition of 'wrong'.

Hello Corvus, No I cannot. The model which I have of experience is that I represent the world, and those representations are imperfect. I think all sc...

I didn't follow why this would be true: can you please elaborate?

Hello Manuel, I would say it is a model of experience--not necessarily reality. It is empirically ungrounded, I would say, to claim that our experienc...

With all due respect, I am not going to come up with a definition for you. Either you have one or you don't: it should not be that hard to explicate i...

Hello Corvus, I have no problem with the imagination being used to try to sort of something empirical—it is when we going beyond the empirical that ge...

None of your links are of you giving a definition.

Nothing we empirically study is nature herself, it is our model of nature derived from experience. Nature does not have to be anything remotely like w...

Awe! I see now that we are in complete agreement! I think you are the first, and perhaps the only one who will, agree with me (: