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In one of those discussions, I asked why he or she did not simply withdraw. The answer was that participation was experienced as a compulsion. I get t...

How does it not become a form of arguing on the basis of authority? Is there a modal logic answer to that question?

Very helpful quotation.

I object to that idea. I would rather have it be a resource for people who use it to supplement their limitations. Don't we all disagree enough withou...

I wonder where linguistics, as a science, fits into Pinker's model. Before trying to map a "mental" substratum for the activity, it would be good to h...

Glad to hear the Currently Reading thread will continue.

One way to hear the PI §329 statement is that some kinds of internal dialogue demonstrate that the thinking through using language is where thinking w...

That is a good observation. Kant had figured that he had nailed down the uses of psychology but the time since then has proven otherwise.

There, again, reference is made to an intuition we do not possess but can imagine as possible. There is an interesting discussion much later in the bo...

Then all my efforts to distinguish the two in the text have been for naught.

All of the text I quoted clearly rules out the transcendental object being an appearance. Where, in the text, do you see the transcendental object bei...

That is one line of interpretation. There are others. I will leave it be for now. This place has many discussions concerning this topic. Till the next...

In your mind, is there a set of stuff that is true and other stuff that is demonstrably false?

Well, I was not claiming the perspective I presented was the only one to consider. It was only to observe that the City of Words is not put forward in...

I did not mean to provide an opposing argument, only to clarify that I was not trying to avoid the "transcendental" in your comment.

Both may be thought "transcendentally" but are not identical. The point of my looking at the precise way Kant expresses the transcendental object was ...

The work as whole deals with looking for an answer to whether justice is merely whatever the powerful say it is. The City of Words is a mirror to the ...

That remark overlooks the role of the transcendental object in Kant's argument. Here it is how it is presented in A: The same formulation is used in B...

Maybe you two should have this argument in a Nietzsche specific conversation.

That paper is narrowly focused on a particular set of issues. The Metaphysics draws sharp differences between the ease with which we can observe kinds...

Good points. One of the aspects of "a formerly good person" that is presented in the drama is how a "line of credit" of respectability runs out eventu...

Please do not be sorry. Being very specific about agreement and disagreement helps me look for what I am trying to find. I was not speaking ironically...

Pardon my penchant for analogy. If you work in a restaurant, you try to separate stored goods from actual food production. And the idea is central to ...

Yes. I like the way you carefully qualified the agreement.

Now that you are doing it, it seems no brainer to separate the storage room from the grille.

I like that answer because it opens up ancient through to modern iterations without putting a finger on the scale regarding them.

Causal agency is the language of practical reason. I guess I am trying to see a flip side to that where Kant says we have an experience of ourselves t...

In Meditations, Descartes wonders if all his experiences in the world are merely dreams and illusion. He asks if the people he sees are machines prete...

Are you suggesting that reading the actual book would be misguided?

That is a good translation. Apostle is also good.

Or read the book itself. If one wants to swim, jump into the pool.

I was not arguing against that idea. It is a received opinion. I figure we cannot know for sure. What the writing talks about is the best indication o...

For Aristotle, "Physics" is an investigation about "Phusis" or Nature. How ever it came to be called "Metaphysics", that book is concerned with "being...

I agree that Kant's argument does not directly approach the thesis of solipsism. Kant introduced the goal of his Refutation as: It is toward this end ...

For Kant, in his time, the statement that awareness of self required the existence of "exterior" things was his argument against solipsism.

I can deal with that challenge tomorrow. I will quote from the text I have been referring to and link it to other sections of the other Critiques.

Then what will be the difference between our points of view? Will you no longer challenge what I have said in the past as you just did? I would rather...

I am not going to say more until we deal with your charges about my agenda.

That is not the case. I have argued extensively against Gerson's interpretation of materialism as a general idea in Plato and subsequent literature. A...

Pretty contemptuous last word. I will leave you with it.

I am trying to avoid being cryptic by referencing specific portions of the actual text. I was sincere in my general thumbnail that you asked for. But ...

The quote you provided from SEP comes from a particular contrast between Kant and Hume. The argument about what the "I" is in the context of represent...

Since the intuitions are separated from the processes of reason a priori, differences of experience are neither what Descartes nor Berkeley described,...

It sounds like what you are calling "solipsism" is what other people refer to as single individuals.

That is more of an argument toward accepting an "ontological" limit than saying: The Refutation of Idealism section previously linked to argues agains...

This is why I resisted giving a summary. Perhaps you could provide references that support your interpretation. On the surface, your description does ...

We do not have access to an "I" as a given before our experience in the world. So, when we approach the matter as if that is not a critical feature of...

I was having fun, too. Maybe it was too culturally limited to my ruralism.