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Where does "if something cannot be judged" come from? It cannot only be judged because you have brought a highly unlikely, suspicious and groundless c...
January 16, 2024 at 11:54
I am not sure what the fundamental particles actually means in the empirical world objects. It is another big issue for debating whether particles and...
January 16, 2024 at 11:35
There are different interpretations on this point. This part seems totally wrong interpretation. Things-in-themselves are for the objects we have conc...
January 16, 2024 at 10:19
Agreed. It sounds like an extreme subjectivism or solipsism. As long as one's sensibility and understanding works with concept, categories and intuiti...
January 16, 2024 at 10:12
Where humans don't exist, of course, there is no perception, no thoughts. But we can still make logical inference (from the human world), that things ...
January 15, 2024 at 11:22
When absence of human thought, the concept of proof cannot be an agenda. The fact that you have been mentioning about the word "proof" proves that you...
January 15, 2024 at 11:11
I understand Kant's Thing-in-itself, is not everything outside us in the world. If that was the case, Kant would be an extreme sceptic, who professes ...
January 15, 2024 at 10:40
It would be better if you could define "capable of conceiving" and "to access anything about the external world". What do you mean by these expression...
January 15, 2024 at 10:34
Why is it not? What else do you need for proof that bent sticks exist in the world?
January 15, 2024 at 00:08
Your claim that the external world is caused by your internal world is wrong then. You don't have an internal world which weighs a few trillion tons. ...
January 14, 2024 at 22:21
Kant wouldn't have said that. What Kant would have said is, that even if your sensibility sees a bent stick in the water jug, your category of concept...
January 14, 2024 at 22:19
I find this difficult to follow. It is like saying that you used your camera, and took a photo of the mountain across the field in your town, and then...
January 14, 2024 at 16:14
If X doesn't exist outside of RussellA, then X must exist inside of RussellA. This sounds logically unsound. Groundless premise, and unsound conclusio...
January 14, 2024 at 14:15
People have different ideas on what life is, and how they want to live their life. But then, there are parts of life which all humans share. They get ...
January 14, 2024 at 14:04
:ok: :cool:
January 13, 2024 at 10:15
I was just wondering if your use of the word "impression" was Humean, or from the ordinary language. But even for Hume, numbers are concepts which is ...
January 13, 2024 at 01:36
You still seem to be misunderstanding the difference between the act of counting physical objects, and the ontology of numbers. The two are not the sa...
January 13, 2024 at 01:18
Is it the Humean impression are you talking about? You are using the concept impression wrong, if it is the Humean. It would make more sense if you us...
January 12, 2024 at 22:43
You are still seeing an object external to you when you see the bend stick in the water jug. There is no internal world. You have a mental space which...
January 12, 2024 at 22:36
We have been talking about the nature of numbers.
January 12, 2024 at 16:22
Well, whatever happened to the man's head, the statue exists. Someone's head going off, doesn't affect the physical or mental existence which has been...
January 12, 2024 at 15:33
They are external. You can think about it, because you have the concepts in your mind. How do you know your pain is real? What if it were just itchy s...
January 12, 2024 at 15:26
How do you know you have a world internal to your mind? Is it a real world? How do you know it is the real world or just a imagination?
January 12, 2024 at 11:45
You know that even if your eyesight is bad, and cannot see the road, the road exists. You know when your memory and eyesights are both bad, so you can...
January 12, 2024 at 09:28
It is good to see you are now accepting that numbers are concepts. It is a progress. But you still seem to insist that there are numbers which are phy...
January 11, 2024 at 20:27
Possible worlds, and worlds in your imagination and memories exist in your mind, but they don't cause your perception for the external world. Kant's f...
January 11, 2024 at 17:35
I didn't quite understand what you meant by "uncouple seeing the road from the road's existence as a thing-in-itself." in your replies, hence asked to...
January 11, 2024 at 17:27
Both.
January 11, 2024 at 17:14
Numbers are concepts which describe the objects and the world with the values. They are not the objects themselves, and they are definitely not physic...
January 11, 2024 at 15:28
I didn't ask about the five operators. There are around 50 - 60 different type of Logic schools all dealing with different type of events and contents...
January 11, 2024 at 15:05
Surely we perceive the world via our senses doesn't necessarily mean that the world doesn't exist? If it is due to limits and faults of human senses, ...
January 11, 2024 at 14:46
I recall this part of CPR. It was about Refutation of Idealism. What was Kan't intention for the proof? Did he succeed in the Refutation?
January 11, 2024 at 12:39
What type of knowledge would it be?
January 11, 2024 at 10:22
A question popped up in my head. Are the facts part of the physical world?
January 11, 2024 at 10:18
But if something is physical, what properties does it have?
January 11, 2024 at 09:38
Is using the countable things only way teaching and learning the elementary maths? This was not about material things. It just meant to say that you c...
January 11, 2024 at 09:37
What branch of Logic is this? What do you mean by this? Could you please rephrase it? How do you uncouple seeing the road from the road's existence as...
January 11, 2024 at 09:22
I don't recall seeing it at all. Or anyone who claims to have witnessed the Big Bang. Could it happen again? Or is it still happening the now? There i...
January 10, 2024 at 12:17
:cool: :ok:
January 10, 2024 at 11:08
Saying memory can be unreliable therefore numbers are physical is a poor logic. Memory is an ability of the brain which is a biological organ. Of cour...
January 10, 2024 at 11:05
Sure, I am not saying it is not allowed to have conjectures and hypothesis on time travel. My point was the claim that "If X, Y, Z, then time travel i...
January 09, 2024 at 08:54
I heard that Japanese folks have their own time system counting from their monarch's coronation days. So they run their king's name and year 25 or 30 ...
January 09, 2024 at 08:44
They seemed to be the concluding statements from your arguments. No I didn't deny anything about Kant or 1776. My point was that you need to prove you...
January 09, 2024 at 00:55
Time exists, but not in the way the would-be time travellers think. :D If you established your own country or created your own world, then you could r...
January 09, 2024 at 00:48
Concepts and data can exist without the physical objects purely in the minds. Do you need the physical reality and objects when you imagine, remember ...
January 09, 2024 at 00:41
No. I never said that. You are either misquoting me, or not reading my posts properly. Before the linkage numbers are concepts. After the linkage, the...
January 08, 2024 at 18:12
Your points were that numbers are material and physical. My point is that numbers are mental and conceptual. Again as above, your points were that num...
January 08, 2024 at 17:20
And another thing, forgot to add. Your concluding claims are all in "If" form. They are not propositions. They are hypothesises and conjectures themse...
January 08, 2024 at 15:53
Of course there are changes in the physical world and bodies. But that is not time. Time is measured quantities. There are durations and intervals, wh...
January 08, 2024 at 10:58
From my own perspective, time doesn't exist. It is a mental concept. There is only "Now", no past and no future. What you call the past is your memory...
January 08, 2024 at 10:45