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Corvus

['Member']Joined: April 02, 2018 at 23:09Last active: February 25, 2026 at 23:2817 discussions4850 comments
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"This too shall pass."
I see a cup, therefore the cup exists. -Corvus

Discussions (17)

Ontology of Time

February 06, 2025 at 10:03 1104 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

To Theists

July 11, 2021 at 09:47 239 comments General Philosophy

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Your posts lack philosophical contents. They will be ignored from now on.
February 25, 2026 at 23:30
] This is not good, that you inserted "]" in your post, so quoting your sentence will get derailed. This type of writing is unnecessary in philosophic...
February 25, 2026 at 21:10
If you did read Kant properly, then you would have mentioned on intuition and judgement aspects of Apperception, which you haven't. It just sounded hi...
February 25, 2026 at 21:07
It is a risk of being crude language which is highly informal, vulgar and not philosophical at all. We are here to investigate and explore the issues ...
February 25, 2026 at 02:08
It sounds like you are grossly misrepresenting Kant's concept of apperception with 1-2 lines you read from Wiki. Kant was not just talking about repre...
February 25, 2026 at 01:46
If dream is a form of perception, then where does the images and contents of the dreams which have no connection to the real world, or past memories c...
February 24, 2026 at 23:19
I agree with your point, that dream is a form of perception and understanding. But as you pointed out, it is not in the real material world. It is in ...
February 24, 2026 at 22:57
I too, am interested in dream and its connection with consciousness. The fact that in dreams we see objects and have surreal experience but without re...
February 24, 2026 at 20:32
Kant was talking about apperception in conjunction with intuition exclusively. He further divides apperception into pure apperception and empirical ap...
February 24, 2026 at 20:26
Provide the source supporting the claim preferably from the original text. Consider a case from dreams. You see yourself in your own dream, and it is ...
February 23, 2026 at 23:53
Isn't dream also a type of perception? You see things and hear sounds in dreams. But when you wake up, you realise and confirm there is no real object...
February 23, 2026 at 17:31
Too much generalisation. These days, women seem to be enjoying their freedom more than men. Protection is not a right word to describe the relationshi...
February 23, 2026 at 16:00
Is this what Kant said? Or is it what you think?
February 23, 2026 at 09:25
That sounds like a case of mistaken identity for chicken as a goose. At least they weren't denying the existence of what they were seeing. Your knowle...
February 22, 2026 at 18:47
You just confirmed that you know what you don't know. Therefore, you just proved the fact that you are not hallucinating.
February 22, 2026 at 16:08
You can deny seeing a cup, but you cannot deny you are seeing something which looks like a cup. You are not denying that you are seeing something, whi...
February 22, 2026 at 13:27
See my profile.
February 22, 2026 at 10:33
No, it is not. That is the proof the cup exists. I don't need a proof, because I know it is not an illusion or hallucination.
February 22, 2026 at 10:28
Because you cannot prove seeing a cup is an illusion or hallucination. Can you prove your seeing a cup is an illusion or hallucination?
February 22, 2026 at 09:47
The evidence was submitted to support the event in the real world as true statements which had taken place in the real world. It is an independent ver...
February 21, 2026 at 17:12
At this point, we can only assume and conclude that the questioner is engaging in "Argument by Refusal, Stubbornness or Denial", which means that the ...
February 21, 2026 at 14:07
You just make coffee in the cup, and drink it. If the cup was hallucinatory, then coffee will spill onto the table. If it holds coffee, and you cant d...
February 21, 2026 at 12:42
Unless you can prove you were in the state of illusion, delusion, hallucination or dream during your visual perception, if you see X, then X exists.
February 21, 2026 at 12:21
You just proved you exist. Yes.
February 21, 2026 at 11:25
1) The fact that they deny the fact proves they do exist. One cannot deny something without existing. When their body exists, naturally their hand exi...
February 21, 2026 at 09:56
2 questions. 1) Do they also deny the fact that their own body exists in a mind-independent world? 2) Whose mind are they talking about here?
February 20, 2026 at 21:57
From my recollection of the reading was, the concept of apperception was originally used by Leibniz and Locke to denote unconscious perceptions or per...
February 20, 2026 at 17:21
You can wave it, or grab a cup with the hand? You cannot deny the fact that you have a hand by that time?
February 20, 2026 at 13:37
Philosophy of mind is not neurology or biology. That was the point. There are clear divisions between the different subjects and methodology adopted.
February 19, 2026 at 19:30
The thinking "I" doesn't exist in every perception and sensation, so the above is downright wrong. But if you present the relevant quotes from the ori...
February 19, 2026 at 12:30
Still sounds wrong. Where did you pick up the definition? Do you have the original texts implying above?
February 19, 2026 at 10:09
Evidence can be fabricated and manipulated. Not always, but possible. Please read the post correctly. No one said that. You are saying it. There was n...
February 19, 2026 at 10:04
Another point. Science does not always offer absolute truths on all their claims. There are always prevalent and possible errors on their observations...
February 18, 2026 at 22:15
You should accept explanations supported by reasoning and logic. Faith is for religion. You seem to be confused between philosophical reasoning and re...
February 18, 2026 at 20:24
Not sure what you mean by that. That is not what Kant said, is it?
February 18, 2026 at 20:20
I am not particularly interested in biological structure of brain. It is not a topic for philosophy. Philosophy deals with rational analysis on the ab...
February 18, 2026 at 16:26
You are welcome. :) It is not something special. I just suddenly realised that consciousness is just a perception which perceives all the other percep...
February 18, 2026 at 14:42
I will try do so when I have more time. Recently got quite busy here, only was popping in briefly for short comments.
February 17, 2026 at 20:58
You don't need to accept if you don't want or disagree. But if you are interested in the topic, you would have a read, and think about it at least. To...
February 17, 2026 at 20:45
You need to read the original work of Kant, which is CPR, not some commentaries. There are thousands of commentaries by different folks on the Kant to...
February 17, 2026 at 20:25
Read on Apperception in Kant's terminology, and you might change your views.
February 17, 2026 at 19:44
That's close.
February 17, 2026 at 19:39
They are not consciousness. They are just mental states and activities. You can do all those without knowing you are doing them. Consciousness means y...
February 17, 2026 at 19:37
Fair enough. One of the philosophical methods is to read, and analyze writings in the discussion, and clarify any obscure or unverified concepts and s...
February 17, 2026 at 16:01
I just asked if that is the case. I didn't claim they are identical. You are not reading the posts accurately. My aim is not claiming or concluding. M...
February 17, 2026 at 15:48
Outside the universe sounds another unverified concept. What is outside the universe?
February 17, 2026 at 13:58
Can you extract the conjured up possible future from the hippocampus, and view it? If it is physical, then it should be possible for you to do so.
February 17, 2026 at 11:56
Do they mean that if you had your friend's brain, you will have his/her memories and imagination?
February 17, 2026 at 09:33
None of them tells what consciousness is.
February 17, 2026 at 09:07
Which neurons? What is actually happening when firing? How do they differ when seeing an apple and when seeing a cup? When imagining them and remember...
February 17, 2026 at 00:23