Well what if I park the car in the garage, and then ask you to go check to see if it is there. I'll give you a walkee talkee. I don't perceive the car...
Just a side note in the convo: I remember SR being treated as a minor point to GR in my physics class. SR was the sort of thing which we learned to do...
I started a thread to explore being/having some time ago, but my mind got stuck. While I felt like I had the gist of the distinction, where I was stuc...
A bit late but I do want to say I didn't want to "out" you in speaking to Banno. I have liked his exchanges with you because it's helped me get a bett...
In my mind, at least -- not to contradict you, but simply to lay out how I think of these terms now -- I think of the terms in a kind of hierarchy whe...
I should be able to eventually. My local library has access to a lot of academic journals. It'll just take some time since, like, I have to actually g...
No. Just as placing dots on a paper to demonstrate counting or addition, or drawing a triangle to demonstrate a triangle do not make mathematical know...
Yup, I agree with your reading of Kant. I hadn't thought of your argument though. I suppose I missed your point, originally, but I think I understand ...
Geometric statements are a priori synthetic. We appeal to the form of intuition, such as when we place dots on a sheet of paper, look at our fingers, ...
Yes, true. I just mean how we categorize something, not what it is. Well, it's a priori because it does not rely upon particular experience -- it is n...
They are very neat. :) I can't deny their sway. I also admire your continued parlay with apo. Not that I'd do it in the same way, or even agree with y...
The SEP has an article specific to transcendental arguments, as well. I enjoyed reading it. Wikipedia is still good for a general introduction that's ...
If not a contradiction then at least some linguistic cleaning would be nice from my perspective. Descartes cannot be mistaken whether it seems like he...
I don't think so. Specifically because since the physical effects are demonstrated then they already fall within the form of intuition. "outside us" i...
No worries about time. As you see I can take a bit of time to respond too. (sometimes too much time! Sometimes I run out of ideas, too...) Take as muc...
Oi. Well, the questions got specific enough that I felt a need to review. So far I've just been relying upon memory, which is far from faultless but a...
Yeah, I admit that I'm uncertain about the actual reactions to the skeptical scenario. I'll say that it's an ideal solution, at least. One which, at l...
Not exactly... I don't think of it as a test for bullshit, or what can be discarded. Please forgive my lack of clarity and allow me to try again. This...
It's cool. Take as much time as you need. It does seem, based on what you've said to Agustino, that you prefer the first strategy I proposed. I prefer...
Sorry for the delay. I had to have me a think after your last reply. i'm going to try and focus on in this reply to where I think our prime disagreeme...
Yes a dream seems like we are aware of something. I can tell you about my dream. I think that neither of these things make something real, though. Thi...
I disagree with this, but I'll touch on it in replying to your third paragraph. Probably gets to the crux of our disagreement though. I don't disagree...
I don't think "intuition" in Kant means the same thing as intuitive. Space isn't intuitively obvious to us. Others have been wrong about space -- like...
That's what I mean. Surely it's sensible that we could be wrong about the form of inuition. So, supposing non-Euclidean geometry is the true geometry ...
I think it poses a problem, but I don't think it's devastating to his project. While Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics are the backgrounds upon...
It's a good question. I think it may depend upon whether or not you'd consider riding a bike in the vat is the same as riding a bike outside of the va...
There are certainly differences, but I think that misses the point of the dream scenario. The point of the dream scenario, here, is to show that we ca...
Sure it is. Which is why it's an interesting puzzle to ponder. I wouldn't say need is the basis for wondering about persuasion. I would say we don't n...
I'd say that the same would happen in the universe we actually inhabit. If memory serves, actually, that did happen with several supposed radical skep...
Sure. The radical skeptic at least. It's more or less a thought experiment. It seems to me that you believe that undermines the thought experiment, th...
The reason metals don't do that is because of the unique chemistry of carbon at the temperature-pressures found on Earth differs significantly from th...
More or less. Obviously there's more than one way to put the skeptical challenge -- and there are more types of skepticism than radical skepticism of ...
Plausible? No. That's why I said there's not much of a difference. It's more an issue of palate than reason. The skeptical challenge remains the same ...
it seems to me that it's more consistent with the skeptical position, though. If the skeptic claimed the world we experience is the result of an evil ...
The skeptical scenario isn't proposed as something that should be believed, though. There's not much of a difference between the BiV and the demon -- ...
In reality? No. I'm not a skeptic at all. :D At least not a radical skeptic. Merely pointing out that were we a BiV, then we could have fabricated mem...
I agree with you @"fdrake", but there is something about the BiV scenario that weasels out of your proof -- the evil scientist can also edit memories....
I would say that humanity has the queer ability to contort its own soul to desire more than what can be found -- or created. (I don't see too much of ...
For me, at least, I find The Myth of Sisyphus resonating and persuasive. I can't speak to Nausea specifically, since I haven't read that one -- but Ca...
But is immediacy really important for determining the existence of things reliably? Perhaps for you it is... still, it seems to me that doubting the e...
I've actually read that stub before :D. It was awhile ago, so maybe it's changed. But I'm aware that teleological explanation plays a role in biology,...
I think this is an example of one mans modus ponens being another man's modus tollens. Or, rather, it's still just a matter of how we count what is de...
I don't think nihilism is the end result of having no reason why objects are. I find existential philosophers arguments to be compelling -- even in a ...
No, it cannot. At least in not some kind of self-help way. Consider having a broken leg. In a distant sense, philosophy can help medical practitioners...
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