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Reason certainly can be used to ascertain something further about these things, these things being noumena. But upon discovery of this something new, ...

May I offer a nice Tuscan Chianti and perhaps a Hoyo de Monterrey to accompany, so to celebrate the good man’s martyrdom? My treat, of course.

Ahhh....excellent. You are quite correct. The whole reach of this kind of metaphysics has to do with the relational nature of human reason, to which e...

Perhaps by the terms of the dilemma, but the dilemma itself is merely an occassion for the exploration of the predicates of moral behavior. With respe...

“.... What you’re missing....if anything, really....is, it depends on how one uses the term. Science, including the Enlightenment era science of Kant’...

Under the assumption that preservation of life is the primary marker for moral agency: Being intelligent enough to be a law enforcement officer, and t...

I grant some conceptions may exist hardwired in the mind, as a product of the kind of rational being we are, re: necessity, correlation, existence. Th...

Then how do we know them? How can they be thought?

Ideas on the subject. Or, more accurately, opinions. Or, more more accurately, a possibly inaccurate understanding of an EXCRUCIATINGLY complex specul...

OK. Agreed. I’m in no position to hold with the things I learned here today, even while appreciating the exposure to them. I think I’m going to stick ...

Holy crap on a cracker.....I never even knew there was any of that stuff. Now I see where you’re coming from. I looked up some of the things you broug...

Wha....wait. A finite set is has size zero? So an unpopulated empty set is the same size as a set of countable numbers? In other words, the set is wha...

Don’t we have to construct our mathematical and logical forms a priori? Then go about proving their truths in the world?

Ahhh....that’s what you meant before by involving sets or elements of sets. OK, fine. I can dig chopping off sets of zero size; that’s just an empty s...

The OP stipulates a infinitely divisible quantity. Number lines do not exist in Nature, but one can be imagined a priori, consisting of an arbitrary, ...

I’m trying to picture a guy, standing there chopping off sections of a number line of x units, each part having zero size. I understand doing so is th...

So the conclusion is, there is no NOW? NOW is impossible because getting to it is impossible? So the real reason people’s sense of reality is threaten...

So your opinion is, because a quantity divided infinitely would have parts with zero size, no quantity can be infinitely divided? Not being a math guy...

I can live with that. If I were to modify it to fit me better, I’d say, may have imperfect knowledge of it. This because we only have one means of acc...

Interesting read. Thanks for giving me something to think about. I wonder...is it possible to be one at the exclusion of the other? If not, how far do...

Different perspectives are always good, so.....thanks. “...preoccupation with questions about methods tends to distract us from prosecuting the method...

(Charlie Chaplin shuffle, stage left)

Yeah, well, some thought experiments were intentionally constructed to exemplify a theoretically impossible situation. And, if I’m putting my knowledg...

If I’m dead, and THEN the lockers are presented to me......all my knowledge is junk. The implication is I understand what a locker is, what it’s for a...

If I see a syllogism manufactured with a false major premise, I have a tendency to disregard the conclusion. Sorry.....just the way Mama tol’ me. On t...

I didn’t say, and certainly had no intention of implying, we all respect the law. What makes you think the government dictates, or wants to dictate, t...

If respect is to ground something as important as morality, it should be given a meaning undiluted by variables. Respect for this, respect for that, r...

From where I sit, three of four of the fundamental tenets of Objectivist philosophy don’t correlate to basic human nature. Simple as that.

I grant your general thesis with respect to propositional truths, but the OP designates “logical fictions”, one of which is “a truth is propositional ...

Oh, I didn’t mean to imply anything of the sort directly at anybody, just generally editorializing. That being said, and if I was forced to think abou...

I’ll take your word for it. Obviously, they treat transcendental differently.

Correct, in principle, according to the rules of logic. Correct, within the same reference frame. While in the Universe, it can be said there was noth...

Ok, I’ll give it a shot. If I fall out of a tree, it is not true I will hit the ground, if I don’t tell anybody I just fell out of a tree? If I fall o...

These, along with belief, are just judgements with degrees of certainty. An opinion has no sufficient certainty at all, as in “I think this party will...

The use of “consciousness” here is a misnomer; it should be “reason”. For Kant, transcendent means beyond the possibility of any and all experience, b...

Now this makes sense to me. These “machinic assemblages”, as “important parts of subjectivity” already have names, their job descriptions are already ...

So is that what this is...Josh’s “dynamical systems models to convey the reflexive self-transformative quality of experience”? OK, sure. There’s no “i...

Being conscious while multitasking, yes. These are the multiplicity of occasions for, and the multiplicity of forms of, empirical data given to percep...

I don’t think the average human being does that. It is only when I stop to theorize about what’s going on between my ears do I have to distinguish bet...

A philosophy cannot be proven wrong; its empirical tenets can only be shown to be in conflict with practical experience, and its logical tenets shown ...

In the interest of graduating from the outdated....OK, in principle. Yep....”nature of” just so conceived, “states of” just so identified, got the mol...

LOL. I don’t have to worry about keeping my job. Or keeping my publisher off my back. Plus the best part....everybody can say I’m hopelessly outdated,...

Yeah, probably. Simple case of I don’t know any better.

As do I. “I” is the pure representation of the unity of consciousness, such that it becomes possible to think all contents of consciousness, whatever ...

Agreed. The traditional apprehension with respect to the conception of consciousness is that it is a singular faculty, or functionality, or rational e...

Not being all that familiar with James, does he say what he thinks consciousness to be? Without that, how can it said whether or not it is discontinuo...

The salesman is nothing but a particular member in the general set of traders. Galt, and therefore Rand, defines trader as this moral symbol of respec...

And you are so bold as to say I haven’t read and don’t understand Rand, when you don't know I haven’t and I don’t? Because we disagree means I’m wrong...

If this, , is what Rand was trying to say, how can I be blamed for missing it when neither it nor anything resembling it, was included or hinted in th...

“....The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot,...