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Kant never said synthetic a priori knowledge makes experience possible. What Kant did was, asking how synthetic a priori knowledge is possible. It is ...

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Defining concept of controversy before discussion is an important and critical step in philosophy. I am surprised that anyone would find unfamiliar wi...

I felt your post is a very well written article. I have no problem with the length of the post. I just liked Wittgenstein's quote regarding God and fa...

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Critique of Pure Reason by I. Kant, Translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn printed by J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. GB First published 1934. I have had CPRs transl...

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The point here is that, truths hide more truths, and one should try to look beyond what is told, heard and seen for more truths. Don't accept even A=A...

This is a simplest example of such cases in simulation scenario just to explain. A software can be written to calculate how many hours are left for yo...

You are welcome. :) You come to the conclusion true or false by your thought process. But it is always your judgement which tells you something is tru...

Grabbing sounds like aggressive wilful act of one sided touching. But it could also mean "trying to get attention of something or someone" e.g. "How d...

If one had been in a coma for a long time, and suddenly woke up, I would imagine that he wouldn't know what time it is. But he could still perceive al...

Fair enough. Thank you for the link, and information. :)

I have never said that statement is judgement. I said truth is judgement. 1+1=2 is a statement. To say it is true is a judgement. "The Earth orbits th...

OK, if you say, there is no universal definition of free will, that is your judgement. I was not talking about the universal definition of free will. ...

But all your sayings sound like your judgements. You say something is a lie. It is your judgement. You say something is true. It is your judgement. I ...

Free Will is for the freewill to choose or decide on given options. For example, you choose to drink coffee or tea or beer or nothing. You decide to g...

Truth is your mental judgement on something ONLY when you are fully conscious. Therefore when you are dreaming or hallucinating, truth does not apply ...

Touching is an object coming into contact with another object, and that is it. Digressing into sounds illogical. Touching has nothing to do with space...

I agree with you too. My position is to leave open minded for conclusions and judgements on what cannot be directly seen, heard and proved with my own...

Illusions, hallucinations and reality like dreaming are possible in perceptions. But one normally has the ability for judgement on the state of the pe...

Great points, thanks. Will mull over the points with CPR.

Would they belong to "Ding-An-Sich"? or would they be just invention of human mind? What do we have to do or what can we do with Thing-in-itself?

Very interesting point. I had been thinking that way at one point, but was wondering, if I was being too idealistic.

One must be 100% certain of one's daily life sensory perception be it visual or sound. If not, then one will be in trouble leading a normal life. Imag...

If we think about the cases when the object of perception are the mental contents such as images in the past memories or imagination, which doesn't ne...

You are welcome. The reason why I think that, is because I experienced in real life that my sensory perception is the most accurate source of truths. ...

Great resource links. Thanks !! I have managed to find my old Schopenhauer books along with the other philosophy books, Greek philosophy, Kant, Hegel,...

I tend to mistrust all the information I read in the books and magazines, or said in the mainstream media recently due to lack of credulity on these s...

Yes, great point thanks. It is definitely written in CPR as "precondition for experience" - Norman Kemp Smith Abridged Edition 1952 MacMillan & Co Ltd...

Thanks for your recommendation. I was going to try philsophising from my own reason and reason alone for a while, but I think I better pull out all my...

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Sure. But I was wondering if it would be even more interesting if his idealism and pessimism could be studied together i.e. what was the ground for hi...

I used to think Schopenhauer disagreed with Kant in many areas, and just mentioned Kant's "Thing-in-Itself" to criticise him, and clarify for his poin...

"What does Schopenhauer say about death? Schopenhauer interprets death as the aim and purpose of life. He maintains that to live is to suffer, that th...

Thanks for your suggestion. I find Schopenhauer a very interesting philosopher, but have not read any of his books yet. The pessimistic remarks I hear...

From laymen's idea of Schopenhauer, he was a staunch pessimist who used to preach that life is not worth living, and it would be better for all life n...

If you say mental is same as the physical bodily process, then you fall into meaningless reductionism of blind science. If you say, mental is separate...

You seem to think time is somehow severable into the present, past and future cleanly, like you could sever a lump of butter into 3 separate pieces. U...

If my memory serves me right (often it doesn't), Kan't space and time is non-physical entities, which are the pre-condition of perception i.e. what ma...

Truth is judgement about something - proposition, knowledge on facts or situations. What truth is not, is it is not some solid material object such as...

My philosophical methods has changed recently. Before I tried to read the classic text books as much as possible, and tried to understand them as much...

Could you doubt that you are doubting?

Certainty is not some material object, but a mental product of knowledge. So what data it would be for certainty would depend on what knowledge the ce...

There are percentage of certainty attainable in accurate maths value if the data was available. For instance, I am looking at tomorrow's local weather...

I was talking about the people in the family. It started with 1+1=2 people, but later through time and the process, the member in the family became 4....

Of course, things change, and even 1+1 =2 is not certain truth. 1 man and 1 woman married and became 2 people in the family. A few years later they ha...

There is again difference between bogus certainty and genuine certainty. Just because one felt something was certain, does NOT mean it was truly certa...

Yeah, when it comes to having faith in / believeing in God, souls, reincarnation, resurrection, etc, there is no room for certainty. Because there is ...

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