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I'll echo @"Banno" in saying philosophy is social -- but I'll also provide relief in saying there's something to be said for not seeking. It's just ha...

:D Oh fine. I'll leave that advice for my more poetic desires. then how about this: 1. Read a philosophy text and attempt to understand it. 2. Read a ...

True! Where to put it in the sequence?

Continental Philosophy: The historical study of how to better disagree with Kant. Otherwise known as Kantinental philosophy.

This is the opening paragraph of the Transcendental Aesthetic in the CPR as translated by Pluhar "In whatever way and by whatever means a cognition ma...

Heh, not at all. You're among friends here who like to be grouchy! :D

Oh, me too. I certainly don't caution against the game. I am a lover of philosophy, if not a full on philosopher. And in a way sometimes philosophy be...

Heh. I'm not sure that I could climb to those heights. I have an interpretation of Kant, but I'm not sure if it's better to focus on what all human mi...

Heh, it seems so small to me. It's like removing saran wrap that you put around your face: what on earth was that saran wrap for? The former, so I bel...

I was drawing a distinction between senses and sensible intuition there, and noting how "sensible intuition" is defined with respect to "intellectual ...

I'm at least a realist. And I like direct realism in the phenomenological sense, but I wonder what's so direct about it if all I mean is that indirect...

I've been reading along and have appreciated the back and forth. No concrete thoughts on my end, but I wanted to give a good hurrah for your shared re...

Yeh :) And cool. I just realized I was about to say things that were different from what you said of the man, so I wanted to note I'm not entirely ign...

I'm pretty solid on Kant. @"Jamal" and @"Mww" have taught me much, but I done some reading on the guy. It's not in the head, it's in the mind. At leas...

I wouldn't rely upon the trilemma as much as the method I've already proposed -- we can come to see that philosophers start from different places thro...

Thank you. I knew you'd be better at it :D @"plaque flag" I'd note that the door knob example could be interpreted differently depending upon how we'r...

Xenophanes

Heh. I agree it's odd! :D I'm at least earnest so I think I'm saying true things of Kant. Though I'd read his answer to What is Enlightenment? as a ch...

OK I thought I was crazy. That's originally what I wanted to say and then I wanted to check myself on google, and so I changed my phrasing to match wh...

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1793.pdf It's been a minute since I read it, but that's the text I was referencing. Yup! That sounds ...

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:eyes: Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!

Nope. I haven't broached Cormac McCarthy because it just seemed way too dark for me. I have enough dark thoughts to occupy my mind! :D My experience o...

Yup! If the fascists won the war we'd be singing the same praises we sing to democracy -- the new society finally cleansed of the dirty people from th...

Here's where I think we actually disagree -- what I like from Kant's project is that there are limits to reason because I don't think human beings are...

I mean I like Camus and Sartre in addition to Marx :D -- so I'd say no. The real is absurd if you ask me. Which is why we can interpret it in so many ...

It's not :). I don't think you have a misreading -- it's far more appropriate when talking about Hegel, from my perspective at least, to talk of readi...

I wouldn't go that far. I think the reason Hegel's philosophy is a mess is because it's hard to say what a misreading of him even is. I've read fascis...

Heh. Where do you think my inspiration comes from? This is a diagnosis of the anarchist! :D (which isn't the same thing as a rejection, from me at lea...

Glad to have you aboard, @"Sam26" -- criticism is the spark of life in these conversations. Also given my warm responses I wanted to pipe up. Though f...

Have you read Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus? I tried googling for pdf's and only found fragments. But it's not too expensive a book. And, importantly, i...

Ah, sorry. (tempted to make a pun on "red" and "rot", since "red" is "rot" in German, and I'm a commie) Yup! I heard it many times on the radio in my ...

I agree with that I've generally spoken in favor of the academy. I wouldn't have the understandings I do today without having gone. And I wouldn't be ...

Again I think we're pretty close here. I think we're singular when we are healthy, but that we are often unhealthy. And that could only happen if we a...

Oh no, I hope I don't mix in with the pragmatists. I've never gone down that path! :D Even at my most Marxist I still believe that sentences can be tr...

Now this is definitely something which goes against my notions of rationality, given what I've said thus far. I tend to think of rationality as the to...

I don't think I'm conceding a point, though I could be misunderstanding you. I'm saying that machine-knowledge is different from human-knowledge, wher...

I can get on board with that, though I'd insist that the ideal doesn't exist :D I see us as having minor differences here. But in the spirit of the fo...

You could probably get a robot to do it now, even. But if you look at the code, while it all has a definite meaning, it won't be clear and distinct ho...

I can see a transcendental structure -- the necessary preconditions for rational discourse are such and such, here we are having a rational discussion...

Heh. You're speaking my honey, then. I love the transcendental argument. I'm pretty familiar with it. I've come to criticize it though. I agree it is ...

I hope not! I'm saying there is more than one rationality, not that rationality is really some other thing. If it were then I'd be arguing there are z...

Hrm! Well, that wasn't as hard as I thought then. Unless there are lingering doubts out there. But how do you make that move, maybe? If I were to tell...

Yup. There's no becoming-animal, if I'm correct about language at least. Once you know how to Write there's no unlearning it while at the same time re...

However! With that being said, I really love this: I think I'd say that your expression is that embodiment, worldhood, and language are equiprimordial...

Couldn't you do so from an emotive base? Rationality is motivated in its actual use, after all. It would have to be a "rational" emotion to count as a...

I think this assumes there's only one rationality. If there are two, though, then you could rationally challenge the possibility of critical discussio...

Weird, twisted -- and fun ;)

I say "trans-genomic-adaptability" because I'm not one to emphasize the brain in the question of mind. That's one likely part in our species' adaptabi...

You keep mentioning Grice which makes me want to read him more. Once upon a time I came across his maxims but that's about all I know of him. This, at...