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There is no originals in Philosophy. All philosophy is interpretation and critique of the world. Long way round is the longest with no ending. What ma...

Yeah, but having said that, isn't metaphysical entities a contradiction anyway? Metaphysical entities lack entities. Metaphysical entities with no ent...

Every time words are spoken, written or typed out, they are real as bricks. Bricks that make up the sentences, which are propositions, statements or c...

I don't read my girl friend. :nerd: I tend to refer from the academic commentaries on CPR these days for saving time. There are other stuff to read, a...

Your question committed a categorical misunderstanding, therefore discarded as meaningless babble. My girl friend is not philosophical writings. They ...

Long writings on the philosophical topics tend to be counter productive in its clarity. Usually long writings get avoided and misunderstood by the rea...

I am not sure if mind as a product of material causation is a proper term or description. First of all, body is not just a material. Human body is a b...

Yes, it sounds a good idea. :up:

Of course they are different causation. Body gives the biological basis to mind, and that is all there is to it. We can see bodies with no mind i.e. t...

It depends on what the definition of God is. If it were like me, my definition of God is, a word in English which spells GOD, and has many meanings an...

Before the existence of mind, there must have been a body which gave rise to the mind. Therefore, mind always reside in the body, which logically impl...

You could be correct on this point.

What is your definition of "perceive" "perception"? Could inference, introspection, retrospection, imagination, predictions for the future, and rememb...

It seems to suggest that mind can work with no external excitement or regulation. When the external objects, time and space are unavailable to the min...

But can you also be addicted to the ascetic practices? You might have thought you are detaching and liberating yourself from the world, but you find y...

I have nothing to criticise on either Buddha or Schopenhauer. But again the point is, that because their claims are not supported by objectively verif...

When you are suggesting even fasting and starvation for the bare minimum bodily existence, you are escaping from yourself too. Schopenhauer was into B...

I did read it. The title "withdrawal", and your comments in the OP like above give strong impression that you were suggesting the best way to live you...

The point is that, your seeking to withdraw from the world, society and yourself will be futile and unrealistic.

You can withdraw from the world, but you cannot withdraw from yourself and your own existence.

Are we ever be able to come to understanding and agreement on what the world truly is? Is the physical world, all there exists? Can there be non-physi...

But if everyone withdrew from the world, then would they not be harming each other even more? All the jobs to be done for others wouldn't be done, and...

Does it mean that the perceived images are created by us, our creativity rather than the images excite our sensibility and perception?

I was just giving an inferencial scenario of a case from real life, if Kant were alive here today, so that you could come to better understanding of t...

If you don't expect today to be sunny, then it is same meaning as you expect today to be not sunny. They are same meaning. Just the sentence is in dif...

You should make note which version of CPR you are quoting i.e. 1st or 2nd. They have many different contents on what they are saying. It depends on wh...

If you don't expect God to be real, then is it not same meaning as you expect God to be not real? Are they different meaning?

This sounds absurd. Because, I don't see jkop, but I only see what jkop wrote in text on the computer screen. Just because I don't see jkop, if I clai...

Thing-in-itself is not available to your senses, ergo there is no sensation of it. If you have sensation of Thing-in-itself, then you would perceive i...

We agree that there are different type of "being real", and each objects are real in different ways. All the questions were asked to you because you s...

You seem to suggest that there are different type of "real" objects in the world. Why Casper, the friendly ghost is real while the other ghosts are no...

Which version of CPR are you reading? There are different accounts for the concept in different versions of CPR. Is it 1sr or 2nd edition? Who was the...

If thing-in-itself is unknowable and unperceivable, how could you talk about sensations of thing-in-themselves? When you have sensation of something, ...

When you say ghosts are not real, does it mean that there are the real ghosts? If there is no real ghosts, then how do you know ghosts are not real? T...

We are undeniably animals in bodily nature having the biological functions, desires and system. However, we are also different from the other animals ...

Being aware of one's own inevitable death sometime in the future. Desiring to be morally Good.

You got it upside down here. Your senses don't produce sensations, but sensations are caused by the external objects, which are phenomenon. Thing-in-i...

Yes, I did. But I chose the words consciously reflecting the contents of my thoughts. In dreams, I have no consciousness of real world, hence things a...

If they say, we are going to meet in the cafe in 1 hour, how do they know when to meet, if they don't perceive time? Every part and corner of the spac...

Thanks, but no thanks. Thanks. No thanks.

Isn't Thing-in-itself a postulated existence, rather than perceived existence? Hence you need faith to perceive it, rather than knowledge?

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But how do we experience the real God, souls and spirits? Not other people's descriptions, pictures, sculptures, plays performed by actors, movies wit...

If time is not an object of perception, how do they know today is a Saturday night? If space is not an object of perception, how do they know where th...

Impossible cannot happen, therefore nothing can happen?

Does it mean that we could mentally construct, visualize and actually feel the image and existence of God, souls, spirits too? What about time and spa...

Not all science is nonsense. But saying that images in our seeing are formed by prediction sounds illogical and nonsense. You see a cup of coffee in f...

That is a peculiar way to use the concept of prediction. From my idea, prediction is always for the unknown future. You don't predict how a cup of cof...

You say, that your explanations are from the scientific research on the topic, but it seems to have basic logical flaws in the arguments. Blindly read...