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It can be also questioned if "understanding" is anything but feeling, or recognition, of some intellectual process. Something we just witness, or then...

I think these are two different perspectives. We can ask similar questions for any complex system. So in my opinion this goes all the way back to Aris...

I'm not sure if this is antiquated at all. To me it looks like many contemporary discussions in the constructivist and finitist context is very much i...

That's very interesting! I'm more of an audio type of person I guess. So I constantly "hear" the words when I'm thinking or writing. Well I don't real...

I also tend to think this way. I started to practice lucid dreaming maybe around 15 years ago, and first encounters were very intense and immediately ...

Interesting! I think Leibniz would approve Cyc project.

There are striking similarities, but that's basically true for everyone else as well. Kant seems to be the dividing line in the history of philosophy,...

Thanks, interesting article. I didn't find in that, or in any posts in this thread, anything mathematically interesting PM critique of mathematics. I ...

This is also how I see it. We can of course debate on what exactly are these rules based on, be it a concept of unity, negation etc. but it looks to m...

I think this is precisely what Kant was saying, in his terms. Objectivity as we understand it, is universal for humans. This is something Kant keeps o...

I also enjoy pre-Kantians very much! At the moment I'm especially interested in Leibniz, who is definitely one of the "bad guys" in CPR and a huge inf...

I have to confess that I haven't read Locke outside of basic text books, so I always thought the distinction between primary and secondary qualities a...

I'm slightly and politely disagreeing here. Locke's theory is representational in traditional way: there's an objective world out there, and the conte...

I think it's more about some specific quality of melancholy that I cannot find in other era's. It's special for me.

Lately been listening to a lot of baroque music. There's something strange in it that I cannot explain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykfjEQ16uE

We said the same about animal intelligence and feelings, not long time ago. Is moral something totally different? If I'm not mistaken, according to na...

Ok, thanks. What I mean with "relativism" is the opposition of universalism, that is all facts are relative to some perspective. So are you actually r...

I suppose this is different than relativism?

To me all knowledge seems to be part of the same "hard problem": how to explain things outside human congnitive faculties, using the very same faculti...

I suppose philosopy was always tightly connectected to science of the day, at least up to and including Whiteheads strange metaphysics. I'm not exactl...

Maybe not so much philosophical but biological for sure. Plants have totally different survival strategy, they are "built" to be eaten by animals, and...

Maybe our reason is mathematical, or logical by nature, and we just observe what we can, and that's why the particular reality as it appears to us beh...

Why is that "the dark side", may I ask?

I also want to add that Jung also was very scientific and meticulous, but his theories were a bit wild, to put it mildly. Anways, Noll's book is just ...

Libido seems to be used in a very similar fashion than "will" or "spirit" or "creativity", or many other substances of that sort. Driving, creating fo...