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Agreed. I propose that some measure of that is because of the focus upon diagnosis organized around saying what is wrong with a particular patient. Th...
October 15, 2025 at 14:56
It precludes you from becoming more skillful. The disengagement from the art limits your horizon. I am reminded of the Flappers of Laputa who constant...
October 15, 2025 at 14:11
The key element in that scenario is that there is no interlocutor to engage with if you attempt a response. Light's on, nobody home. The difference be...
October 14, 2025 at 23:45
I don't use AI beyond search engines. I have no experience of it generating text per request. Seeing its expansion reminds me of what David Krakauer s...
October 13, 2025 at 22:13
That collapse is what I tried to illustrate earlier in the discussion. It is not as if the collapse gives us a better way to understand narcissism, la...
October 13, 2025 at 21:31
As a reflection of professional care, the difference between psychology and psychiatry concerns diagnosis and treatment. Psychiatry has developed as a...
October 13, 2025 at 21:01
I will ponder upon the differences of constraints. I don't see it as a direct comparison of models so I have to think about it more. But the idea of c...
October 13, 2025 at 00:51
I get that from one of many "cybernetic" points of view. But I also meant to say that the Aristotle particularity about specific matter comes into que...
October 13, 2025 at 00:15
I agree with Jamal that the OP suffers from the lack of a clear citation of the text.
October 13, 2025 at 00:03
Yes. It would demonstrate a pre-existing potential becoming actual in a different organization.
October 12, 2025 at 23:48
My previous efforts were not deemed worthy of consideration,
October 12, 2025 at 00:47
You offer only two possible motivations. I have been arguing the limits of such a division, not whether it is the case.
October 11, 2025 at 22:27
The argument is based upon being able to completely separate the self from what is not self. You defend the thesis by an appeal to solipsism as a give...
October 11, 2025 at 21:41
It is a problem with your dichotomy. You enlist La Rochefoucauld for your purposes but are unable to replace his model with equal perspicuity. "Stimul...
October 11, 2025 at 21:16
By excluding all senses of "self-less" or not-for-yourself as a motive for action, there is no way to model particular behavior as relative to others....
October 11, 2025 at 20:40
Framing the matter as either selfish or selfless, there is no way to compare behavior that involves a range of values. In La Rochefoucauld, for instan...
October 11, 2025 at 18:18
There is a logical problem here. Attempts to reduce everything not evidently physical to the physical is not an argument for two different kinds of be...
October 10, 2025 at 23:32
A lot of Kierkegaard's testimony takes the form of an intervention. Philosophical Fragments counterposes the Socratic view of 'recollection' that says...
October 10, 2025 at 14:35
Which other insurrections?
October 09, 2025 at 22:39
Yes, a typo. It is off topic to this OP, but I often wonder about self-identified schools of thought and the range of vocabulary shared amongst differ...
October 09, 2025 at 22:00
I am surprised by your lack of surprise. The shared use of terms by the two authors is clearly evident in comparisons of their texts. That includes th...
October 09, 2025 at 01:47
The term comes from Aristotle. a priori is Latin for what comes earlier or first. a posteriori is what comes later or behind. The Greek words are ????...
October 08, 2025 at 20:35
In Kafka's reflections and maxims, there is provided a glimpse of how to proceed in a dark world. Maybe it could be described as a kind of stoic or gn...
October 08, 2025 at 00:36
I will pursue my Buddha nature by not commenting on the SEP article. The receptivity of perception in Aristotle can be seen as a parallel to that of t...
October 07, 2025 at 15:32
Correction noted. Explanatory parsimony rules the day. I may use that tight wad in other shops.
October 07, 2025 at 12:50
That points to the structure of the Critique establishing limits as starting places before building upon them to introduce new thinking. For instance,...
October 06, 2025 at 23:45
I believe the briefest explanation provided by Kant on the role of intuition as a possibility for experience is where he distinguishes intuition from ...
October 06, 2025 at 17:18
The writer of the article is assuming that things-in-themselves are present whether we experience them or not. That is not what Kant says in the quote...
October 05, 2025 at 16:34
Kafka gets that part. We are the dice in the game.
October 04, 2025 at 22:43
Thank you for the report. I will work on painting a picture.
October 04, 2025 at 21:55
Before trying to respond to that, it would help to know which thinkers you are well versed in. Kant was using the language of his contemporaries. I kn...
October 04, 2025 at 21:18
Quite right about the 'a' being a footnote and not an indefinite pronoun. One of the hazards of copying and pasting text here. I try to clean those up...
October 04, 2025 at 19:46
I started using the phrase from reading: That gives me confidence that the door I am painting today is the same one I was painting yesterday. But I li...
October 04, 2025 at 00:05
The things-in-themselves are, by definition, what is not experienced. The appearances do not represent the things-in-themselves ala Aristotle. We inve...
October 03, 2025 at 23:37
I should not have used a spatial metaphor while discussing space. I meant to say that taking intuition of space and time as a process of my perception...
October 03, 2025 at 16:51
Berkeley is, in fact, mentioned by name at the beginning of the Refutation of Idealism: Kant figures his refutation of both is one stop shopping if he...
October 02, 2025 at 17:19
You are putting a lot of theories in my mouth. I am not trying to defend what Kant said but clarify what I heard he was saying. Neither was I trying t...
October 01, 2025 at 23:20
As a matter of textual interpretation, it is clear that reason is being closely tied to the limits of empirical knowledge. That our judgement is, to s...
October 01, 2025 at 22:53
Kant agrees with that in the first section of the Introduction to the Second Edition, titled: On the difference between pure and empirical cognition. ...
October 01, 2025 at 16:35
I am unfamiliar with Gould. I am better acquainted with dead French writers. Please point to a sample of what you are referring to. Sounds interesting...
September 30, 2025 at 22:49
I believe Kant thought he had uncrossed those wires when he refuted both Descartes and Berkeley with a single blow: That supports the statement at B15...
September 30, 2025 at 16:34
I read Chalmers to be questioning whether what is referenced through the first person can be reduced to the third. The issue concerns what is reductio...
September 29, 2025 at 23:21
Kant's terminology is intimidating. I think the way Kant speaks in the Preface to the Second Edition is a good outline to his intentions and what he m...
September 29, 2025 at 20:14
I figure a representation happens when what is given through sensible intuition becomes an object one can have knowledge about: The intuitions are giv...
September 28, 2025 at 17:06
Errors of perception, like the one you describe, are a common theme in Aristotle. Dysfunctions caused by illness or old age are brought up in De Anima...
September 27, 2025 at 21:16
That error comes up a lot in Aristotle. Perhaps you could point out where that happens with Kant.
September 27, 2025 at 00:36
It seems clear that such an appeal to the base is still high on the agenda.
September 26, 2025 at 23:04
The role and value of analysis is at a shifting border with other means of other learning methods. My set of skills are a motley bunch. Most have come...
September 26, 2025 at 22:58
I don't think Kant was ever saying that our experiences came only from our minds. The issue I see is how many of the properties we develop in our judg...
September 26, 2025 at 21:44
I did not mean to make my question a rebuttal to your statement. Your reply is interesting. I won't try to respond to the whole of it now but will add...
September 26, 2025 at 01:03