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I think objectivity and subjectivity are two poles of the same concept. They appear together because each is in the meaning of the other, so to speak....

:grin: :up: I think the concept of an abstract object comes from Frege. :up:

Kant showed that we're bound to think along certain lines. I call it the contours of the mind. We feel our way to those contours by logic and conceiva...

"Abstract object" has a specific meaning in philosophy of math. It's not a physical object, but it's still something that transcends the individual. S...

I don't think they distinguished between mental objects (what you're thinking about now) and abstract objects (things like numbers and propositions.) ...

The idea of an abstract object didn't exist back then. He was talking about things like cups and trees.

I see what you're saying. I agree.

Oh! I see what you're saying. This is the difference I'm seeing between Descartes and Kant: Descartes is sort of saying that our ideas of the world su...

I've never thought of Descartes as proving that some of our knowledge of the world is a priori. Nor Leibniz. Could you expand on that?

The idea that science can be purely empirical is still around. It's this vision of science that Kant and others killed, for philosophers anyway. I onc...

Kant points out that aspects of the phenomenon are known to us prior to experience with the world. He lays out clear and persuasive arguments for this...

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@"Hanover" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGmXAu8geVg

Well I kept having this feeling that there's something wrong with creating a logical argument for physicalism, though I couldn't put my finger on it. ...

Maybe physicalism is first and foremost a form of life in Wittgenstein's sense. And he's another who seems to speak truth without rigor. We're in the ...

The Chinese masses are turning middle-class. There's a threat in that that Chinese communism never had to deal with. They have a learning curve ahead ...

I like that, although it's not a slam dunk for physicalism. It's an excellent expression of the physicalist vibe. I guess I particularly appreciate it...

Fooled By Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This is philosophy of the market, which touches on philosophy of math. The same author wrote The Black Sw...

Oh, I see. I thought you were saying they're the same.

Thank you.

Phaedo is one of my favorite philosophical works. I also disagree with your interpretation, and indeed your whole take on Plato. But there's always ro...

My point was that physicalism isn't entailed by empiricism and naturalism.

But Berkeley paired empiricism and idealism. Augustine advised methodological naturalism in that he advised people to look first for natural causes be...

Best explanation I've ever heard. Thank you, my friend. :up:

I honestly thought it was obvious from the question itself. Oh well.

Instantaneous velocity does touch directly on those issues, so Aristotle. :roll: Plus you copied my use of "adjacent" you prick.

The answer varies with starting assumptions. Only one set of assumptions leads to the answer 4. Specifically, you have to pay attention to what's been...

I think Israel would react the same no matter who was in Gaza. I don't think their actions are governed by racism, such that if the Gazans were Dutch,...

Pretty cool!

I think the appeal of the simple question is that it inspires one to think outside the box for a second. Instead of trying to figure Kant out, do some...

And Israel? And Ukraine? And whatever the hell other than philosophy?

I disagree. I think it would be obvious to anyone with a little familiarity with philosophy of math that this question opens up in multiple directions...

ha. It was supposed to be about instantaneous velocity, finitism, all that stuff Eh. Who cares.

Yes. But let's talk about Donald Trump instead of philosophy. :up:

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whereof one cannot speak...

What does the way we are bound to think have to do with the way the world is? Schopenhauer wanted to answer that by way of Kant. Wittgenstein says we ...

Schopenhauer agreed. He called it the law of explanation.

Nothing. Gaza was a giant refugee camp, one of the most densely populated areas on the planet, spewing demoralizing attacks on its neighbor. The west ...

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Not first thing in the morning

I read this one! How did you become interested in Plotinus?

If you have Netflix and like Korean horror, Sweet Home has a second season now. It's awesome.

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Sorry, that's what I meant. "Explanandum" was changed to "explanation" by my autotext. Fixed.

I think that's similar to saying gravity is an explanandum in its own right. We're just saying it's a given.

This is sort of what Wittgenstein is saying in the Tractatus, right? It doesn't get the attention it deserves because it spoils all the fun. :razz:

The physicalist sees a "dead" universe, so to speak. Scientists don't consider the possibility that the universe is alive or developing according to p...

But multiple realizability means it may not be possible to identify that kind of causal chain. Supervenience becomes the default. True. So maybe physi...

I think that just comes out of being conservative. At least in the anglo-american world, physicalism has been an assumption for a good while.