Perplexed

Was Kant's transcendentalism not rationally derived from the foundation of all possible forms of intuition? "Empirically real but transcendentally ide...

I was not suggesting to look outside of intersubjective criteria, but rather that we may need a better method of assessing those criteria. Otherwise w...

Of course one could just get on with the business of science without any need for contemplating its foundations and why it works but this always strik...

Perhaps you're right. But it could also be a recipe for mass conformism. How does one tell the difference?

This still does not sound like enough to qualify as being "objectively invariant". One could imagine many things that are reliably observed and inters...

Are you then a dualist in asserting that the mind is something distinct from the brain? The problem still remains that if the activity of the mind is ...

This sounds like a psychological process, perhaps similar to what they call "prediction error" in neuroscience and learning theory. How can we tell th...

It sounds like you are advocating a kind of statistical analysis to find correlations between the patterns in nature. This still doesn't get us over t...

I suppose 18th century science could be said to "assert determinism". The question is, does our modern science allow for non-deterministic events to t...

Could clarification not provide new information? After all, if it is already known then why clarify in the first place? So do you say that to be free ...

If one were to follow Hume's position that we have no rational basis for believing that induction from experience is a valid form of knowledge, then h...

One would need to determine if we have grounds to believe that our experience is offering us valid insights into the nature of these established invar...

Thank you for your answer, I will read into Kant to try to get a deeper understanding of these subtleties.

The question is how do we know when these patterns are inherent in nature as opposed to arbitrary artefacts of our mode of perceiving?

I believe this would depend on your metaphysical assumptions. It sounds like you are taking a nominalist position which would reduce deduction to the ...

Undoubtedly it works but as a theory of knowledge it seems to take us into the realm of what I suppose you would call pragmatism or utilitarianism. To...

Thank you. I have heard of that book. I'll add it to my reading list. The difficulty is that if inductive knowledge is purely contingent on repetition...

Thank you both. I am a newbie with an interest in the epistemological development of science. I apologise if this was a bit of a stock question. So hi...