It has been clearly pointed out in this post. That is not my wish, but the officially accepted facts by the most contemporary academics, which turned ...
Dogmatism (of the rationalists = Spinoza, Wolf, Mendelssohn) was what Kant tried to fix. You were incorrect in telling that Kant was trying to fix Hum...
This sounds like you are misunderstanding Mathematics with some empirical or religious subjects. :chin: :roll: Mathematics and Geometry are A priori s...
This is more like what the academic articles (e.g. Kant's debt to the British Empiricists, by Wayne Waxman 2010) saying on the issue (A Kant Dictionar...
The Oxford or Cambridge accent sound clearer and easier to understand for me. This is true. Didn't know Russell was from Wales. I couldn't trace any W...
Mathematics is its own subject. No one calls Mathematics Science. It would be like saying Poetry is Science. Science is for the natural science, which...
OK, I see it. I would interpret the quote " in his science must be, the empirical science, not Mathematics or Geometry. He seems to be talking about t...
Where is that quote from? Hume divides Reason into two different types. One is for Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact. The former deals with Geom...
Hume didn't take anything for granted. He had done his own critical examination regarding its own powers and its capacities and limits in Treatise 1.4...
My question was from your own points on Hume and Kant. Recall this? Remember this? Yes, I am reading Hume too. Hume is one of my favourite philosopher...
I was asking exclusively about the part Kant had admitted having been indebted to Hume's awakening his dogmatic slumbers from i.e. exactly what part o...
Pure reason knows dogmatism, and usually discerns the antinomies. However, psychology of thinking might go wrong, overriding pure reason. Reason is a ...
Reason's duty is to tell truth from falsity and warranting judgements. It doesn't get involved in trying to prove external objects as real existence. ...
Acts of knowing and thinking are topics of psychology. How and what can be known and thought, are the topics of Epistemology. When reason sees the int...
All reason is pure in the sense that it is not a product of experience. Reason judges and analyses the content of experience. Knowing and thinking are...
That is nothing to do with Berkeley's idealism. Berkeley's idealism treats your perception identical to the existence. In Kant, you need the empirical...
Welcome to TPF. You are doing great. No problems. Thank you for your great post. Yes, I see your point. Language is also for understanding the world, ...
Kant just explains how our perception works with the existence in the empirical world. He is not concerned with them too much. It is our intuitions an...
I would have thought when we infer things, it is the internal operation in the mind, which doesn't involve the external objects. In that case, would i...
If you were asleep, and didn't want to get disturbed by any visitors, then any knocking on the door will disturb you, even if it was you who knocked o...
This is true. When I went to the Netherlands, I recall all of them spoke English everywhere we went. I have not been to Scandinavia, but had friends f...
Yes, you could be correct. My statement was again from my guessing having met many continental European students from Germany, Norway, Italy, France, ...
Yeah, I was in some sceptic mood there in my previous message. :) I had a wee word about this with folks here, and they say that if you only count nat...
Well fair enough. My estimation of total English speakers being the top in the world came from guessing, and it was maybe wrong. I am not sure. But ha...
A lot of them would also speak English in some degree. So you must add about 15-30% of them into the English speakers. Every country in the world you ...
You should have asked "in what sense" better, rather than just better. It sounds vague and unclear without some quantifier when asking which is better...
It would depend on the situations too. Words can be super accurate in most situations too. If you see a sign saying on the door "Don't disturb", how c...
I agree that words and sentences can be vague. But maybe due to lack of supplied or accuracy of the information. With more detailed information and ac...
I understood Noumena is the placeholder for Thing-in-itslef, and Thing-in-itself is for the abstract existences which appear in our minds without the ...
Good point. Must admit sentences we see in daily life can be vague at many times. Would it have been clearer, if it said "This door is not working. Us...
Solid ground for infallible knowledge is about the objects in the empirical world. Noumena is for the A priori perceptions which have no objects in th...
Without the contents, the logic symbols would mean nothing meaningful at all. It would only mean something with the contents. The chemical compounds s...
Words are read, and understood by its meaning alone. There is no room for guessing or imagining just by reading alone (although people do them but the...
There seem to be some problems here. 1. You are talking about only the things in your mind. It will not give you any further knowledge on the external...
The point of words is to convey the meanings they contain. Every words has their meanings. If you said a word with no meaning, then it wouldn't mean a...
It sounds gross self-contradictory to say "matter existing in the world is noumena", and then keeps going on "noumena cannot be cognized, it cannot th...
Not sure where you got that syllogism from, but it sounds meaningless, irrelevant and unintelligent. :) I am only replying to you because you have bee...
I am not into linguistics, so my ideas on it would be that of a total layman's. I would think that in the primitive times when there was no language a...
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