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It is beyond belief that you seem to be in total oblivion that my question was against your claim. The question would have never been put to you, if y...

If you are able to recall, you claimed that you do actually say that the world you experience is real. in your post in this thread. My questions was, ...

Can substance be further broken down into their constructive elements? For example, bread is made of flour. Water is made of 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen m...

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But in Kant, Space and Time are a priori condition for our experience of the external world. He doesn't see them as illusion. On that basis, can Kant ...

Only thing I have done was responding to your request. Then I was asked to cut to the chase, and then pops up with a senseless comment that this is a ...

What do the Indirect Realist say about A priori concepts and space and time? Can these be mind-independent?

1. Real can mean physical existence. You are not just seeing something, but you can also touch grab feel use manipulate transfer and throw out physica...

Could it be the part of CPR where Kant explains the antinomy of Pure Reason? The reason has to deal with two controversial cases in perception. First ...

Thank you for your post. It is always good to have more different opinions on the topic, which makes discussions more diverse and interesting. Yes, I ...

Another case of linguistic aberration?

What is Kant's own definition of Transcendental Idealism? I was under impression that he hadn't given out clear definitions on TI as such. According t...

OK, let's see it this way. Are sure all your sense organs are perfectly accurate? How do you know they are? Or perhaps they are not? Tell me what you ...

Yeah, whenever I read "Indirect X", I always get curious, "Indirect" from what, how and why? Perhaps you could be right.

It must be all the recent Kant commentators who pigeonholed Kant to be an idealist, realist, or phenomenologist etc etc, and we are just to trying to ...

Category mistake?

How do you prove the world that you perceive is real?

Only thing about "Indirect Realism" is that, "Indirect" sounds a bit vague. Would it not be better called something like "Representational Realism"? B...

I never believed that squirrels can live in houses. I have seen a few of them in the garden sometimes. They are very fast, and agile. They quickly do ...

There seem different schools of Phenomenology. For example, Heidegger's Phenomenology is much different from Husserl's. Merlou-Ponty has again differe...

Not necessarily. One may only lose one's identity. Of course, this doesn't mean that one's objective identity is lost too. One only loses one's subjec...

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We are not doubting the world, objects, things, pets or people when we are seeing them. We are doubting when we don't seem them anymore. If your pet i...

1. Do the Phenomenalists claim to know the real world perceived as the appearance? Or is it unknown existence? 2. What would be the differences betwee...

:up: Interesting point, and great writeup. However, Appearance has hint of being the mental representation. Appearance is not the world either, is it?

Should you not say that you were disturbed by the alarm clock, which woke you up involuntarily from your sleep, rather than you perceived the alarm be...

So then which world is real, Appearance or Thing-in-itself? Or are they the same world?

I recall reading Plato saying that our innate abstract ideas on the world and objects, and the mathematical knowledge are from our recollection of our...

Yes, good point. Here is the summary from ChatGPT on the problems of OLP. "1. **Circularity and Conservatism:** - Critics argue that OLP can be circul...

In what way, was he so?

Would you not agree that figures of speech can be confusing, and is illogical?

If you were perceiving the world while you were asleep, then you wouldn't need the alarm clock to be awakened by it. The fact that you set the alarm c...

But could you not say that your perception is caused by your sense-data? i.e. the sense perception of the external world?

But do you keep perceiving the world while you are asleep? Are what you perceive always what you think you perceive? Was there any room for doubts, il...

Existence of God and proof is another interesting topic which is related to the topic of this thread. Why do you believe in the existence of God? Or w...

No probs. I don't have perfect memories. I am sure no one does :D This thread is for any topic or issues which one feels related to the concepts "the ...

Understandable. Nietzsche was an atheist.

The point is not that we stop perceiving or not perceiving anything at all. But rather, how can we be sure about what we perceive is real or truth? Or...

Not exactly anti-realism, but more to do with Academic Scepticism?

No no, I was just responding to your points. :)

I tried reading Philosophy in Korean which is my native language, but it was actually more difficult to understand. I think problem is the translation...

As you have suggested, intuition implies connection to knowledge, and indeed it is faculty for knowledge. Not imagination. Imagination is a faculty of...

Why did Nietzsche renounce Kant?

Propositions have bivalent values either true of false. 5+7 itself is not a proposition until you add "=" and come up with 12. 5+7=12 is a proposition...

Sure, here is B3 from CPR. "By the term “knowledge à priori,” therefore, we shall in the sequel understand, not such as is independent of this or that...

Wouldn't he only know there are too much fishes in the basket, when he tries to lift it first? :) Just by looking at the basket, he would only be able...

So what is the boundary of our imagination? How do you define the line between possibility and impossibility of imagination? Do we all have the same c...

I know what you are trying to say, and it is all over in the textbooks too. But that is the part I don't agree with. There are the tribe people who li...

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I agree with this. There is no blind mathematician from birth unless he has been taught by someone.