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The Introduction written by Guyer and Wood in the linked edition is the clearest summary (and limits to summary) that I have found. Kant developed his...

Well, Kant put the "not knowing" the other way around. Here is the Theorem from the Refutation of Idealism: Same ignorance, different day.

I am glad that the current pagination will be turned into a single document for the archives. The "Find in page" browser function will make searches o...

Fair enough, I should have minded my own business. There are different varieties of solipsism? How can they be compared to each other? That would seem...

It is difficult to follow your argument since you base it upon an interpretation of what an interlocuter has said rather than engage in the debate pro...

I have used some stuff elsewhere but mostly considered writing here as a one-shot deal. Remembering the past for me has been about recalling discussio...

Without having the site do that, it is easily done by copy/pasting from the comment collection under one's name. I did a little of that but not into t...

It is confusing to have you acknowledge that Kant argued against your argument immediately after you claim that he supported it.

Thank you, Jamal and team, for keeping the place alive. I particularly appreciate the preservation of the archives because there is so much good stuff...

The expression "how do we know" is peculiar in this context. It usually appears as a counter to a statement of fact made by a person. "How do we know ...

I have learned many things new to me in your thread. I need to think and read about it more before trying to answer your points of argument. Till then...

I figure that what the dialogue Phaedrus was concerned with was how love for other people turns into wanting things for them. Once you start doing tha...

I spoke of 'thinking' more generally than W would probably warrant. However, from the Tractatus to the PI, the distinction between science and whateve...

One starting place is to ask why W wants to separate psychology from thinking. The separation is a stumbling block to explanation. I take your point t...

Looking through what your thread has focused upon, and what we have discussed as differences of method by different thinkers, I resist the idea that t...

That prompted me to think of Scarface. Tony has a code which has him look like a victim of his conscience in one place but the agent of his demise whe...

There have been many times when I wondered if I was the only one who retained any kind of institutional memory here.

Yes, James is on your wavelength, judging from your previous posts.

They do smell that but are applying their algorithm to everything that moves. It has worked for them so far.

I am glad we have found some common ground. I will need to mull the teacher/midwife distinction because it cuts across many different points of view I...

It is Penner who calls the "moderns" "pseudo-Christians." I take your point that my characterization of Penner's argument does not zero in on the diff...

Yes. You don't have to be signed in to see it.

Sometimes it comes down to taste and aesthetics. I tried reading Derrida a couple of times and kept lapsing into a coma. I have no idea if I disagree ...

I understand your reaction to drawing a line regarding what can be said. I am quoting Parmenides rather than defending him in a different place from h...

I did not mean to express a prohibition. The Goddess implores the visitor to not try to say what is not sayable. She also observes that many do. The e...

I meant to say that asking why something exists requires a determination that your use of "nothing" does not permit. The uncomfortable feeling engende...

Heraclitus said that eternity stretches backward and forward. That pretty much frees up any need to explain why anything exists. Causality needs the p...

What often strikes me in reading Blue Book is how different terms collide in ways that seem outside the progression of an ongoing explanation. I do th...

That certainly puts what you have been saying in a different light. I need to think about it. I appreciate you meeting my response so forthrightly.

who are you replying to?

I appreciate your careful reply and need to think about it in detail. For now, I will only point out that Wittgenstein is claiming more for his method...

I am sorry to hear you put it that way. I figured you were prompting a conversation that is usually covered up by other themes.

I don't want to stand against such analyses trying to map out the problems of the modern world. And I am troubled by the speed of many current changes...

The democratic rub.

I was contesting: That being a different standard of measure from a golden age idea.

The funny thing about Descartes is that most of his actual science really sucked. The algebra stuff was good. I recognize that a lot of modern things ...

So far, you have not made that argument but taken for granted that it is true. You have provided a description of the text as meaning to say X but the...

A big topic. As it is Plato presenting the options in his dialogues, there is a large gap between Parmenides grudgingly admitting Forms might explain ...

How do you distinguish between generally received opinions from what has been justified by reason? Efforts to make that distinction are a big part of ...

That is and will be a lot of work for all or any who attempt it. I am trying to understand how Wittgenstein thought of his work as outside of the othe...

I don't believe we have a clear enough understanding of the limits of "epistemic warrant" to use the idea as a given. Saying that is not a rejection o...

To be clear, Bateson falls on the "psychology" side of what Wittgenstein is considering. And so does Chomsky. I don't mean to imply that their ideas a...

Are you referring to Socrates or Wittgenstein? I am familiar with the phrase "man-splaining" but don't know how to hear "man-listening." Neither do I....

I agree that the different directions in academia do not seem to be gravitating towards a center. I don't think Wittgenstein would have objected to Li...

I did not mean to bring up that element as a rebuttal to your thesis. But if the introduction of history is not germane to the argument, why not just ...

That does not depict the role of history Hegel insisted upon. How ever that is framed in the many interpretations, History is the criteria absent from...

That is a fair question. The odd thing about Wittgenstein is that his "skeptical method" does not lead to a "once and for all" claim prominent in othe...

Agreed. I guess a natural follow up question would be to ask how that judgment is carried out. What was thrown off by one set gets to be a problem for...

You keep putting your situation in the context of your choices alone. Actual life involves the collision of your choices with others. You are not in a...

Consider when people rely upon you. Sometimes that works out for them. Other times it does not. Illusion, in that scenario, has to do with capability,...