The why...... “.....Our knowledge springs from two main sources in the mind, first of which is the faculty or power of receiving representations; the ...
“....I apply the term transcendental to all knowledge which is not so much occupied with objects as with the mode of our cognition of these objects, s...
You seem the type to instruct the uninitiated, so...... No, but if viscosity and surface tension prove emergence itself is possible, and with the admi...
I’m OK with both your (1) and (2). Abstraction from experience is adequate for a priori knowledge, but doesn’t address whether any other methodology i...
Absolutely. Kinda difficult sometimes, but still fun. One guy bases his argument on something from Chapter 2, say, and his dialectic adversary bases h...
Ever get some bug in yer ear, keeps you up at night......rather than argue from point A, let’s rather see how it may be that point B has legitimacy......
“.....For this very reason all analytical judgments are a priori even when the concepts are empirical, as, for example, Gold is a yellow metal....” Pr...
Just staying in my lane, doncha know. Kant said *ALL* mathematical expressions, particularly geometric formulations, are synthetic a priori propositio...
Not sure I understand this properly, but assuming the quality of the verification to mean the strength or weakness of its agreement, then it seems to ...
Supposed the nebula theory for galaxy creation, actually. Along with tidal forces making the moon’s orbit decrease, the prediction that stars were unc...
Agreed. Which merely begs the question......from where did sure cultural invariant arise? It must be a condition of all similarly constituted rational...
A belief that can be bought is a persuasion, and does not stand as determining a conviction. Receiving a thousand dollars to say something, is insuffi...
Wouldn’t Herr Kant freak if he was around about the time they broke water down into its constituent parts? (Vion, 1869) Actually, no, probably not. Be...
With respect to knowledge and experience I prefer what Kant has to say, I guess I am driving towards it. Or him, as you say. Subjectivity reigns supre...
Yeah, I used first person architecture for that very reason: any knowledge and experience belongs to subjects individually. Because it was stated as m...
Hmmmm, yes. I see. I see you’re talking about learning, I’m talking about understanding. I understand the abstraction of numbers. Like a concrete numb...
I meant that the entire “This presupposition appears to me to be unjustified” from the OP, is indeed unjustified, because 1.) Kant never presupposed a...
Subject as “office”......I like it!!! Quite apropos, actually. When you say Kant was anti-philosopher in the first critique and philosopher in the sec...
The philosophical self deals with itself only as subject in itself, the empirical world merely incidental; the psychological self deals with itself as...
This presupposition is indeed unjustified, insofar as a world independent of our knowledge cannot be the cause of our experience. It follows necessari...
You must have spent a lot of time re-evaluating yesterday’s OP, to dump it and start over. Freaked me out when I came back to find everything missing....
Hey kids, god here. I don’t do this very often, but I’m reminded of one of my more astute creations.....well, according to some of you anyway, to othe...
If I had said something like that, which I have before because I think it’s true, I would have used a few dozen more words, which wouldn’t have made i...
Fear not!!!! Some neurobiologists insist unused or seldom used neural pathways degenerate to an un-actuated condition eventually. Bad news is, other n...
Understood. An epistemological theory grounded in rules should adhere to that system of rules sufficient to regulate it. First I heard about it. Call ...
The three laws of thought, as put forth by Aristotle, are analytic propositions, not because of their content, but because they are true necessarily, ...
What mechanism is the child using to relate a word he hears to an object he sees, in a system of quantitative analysis, that doesn’t have an a priori ...
That’s good, because consciousness is not mind. If redness is the condition of being red, thickness the condition of being thick, why can’t consciousn...
Sorry. I hit post before I was done. S“....There is no Cartesian subjectivism in St. Thomas which groups the whole of Being around the thinking self, ...
I suppose counting could be construed as an intellectual operation, in as much as I am connecting an a priori representation of quantity to spatially ...
I can dig it!! Although, if one holds with the representational system of human cognition, he is met with a logical dilemma, insofar as the subject th...
OK, if that’s how it seems to you. I know it seems like quibbling, but you started by saying “internal dialogue” which to me means at least two conver...
Experience falsifies the claim if I’d said “reason’s sole domain is to *force* thinking correctly”. A set of logical rules doesn’t come with the promi...
Which begs a MAJOR question......how is most rational decided? Really, when the lights go out, when the outside noise has gone away.....are there real...
In the event of a conflict, which member of the dialogue would be the decision maker? I suppose, though, an internal dialogue is no worse for intellig...
Yes, it is, because a priori knowledge derives from universality and necessity, which Hume’s empirical grounds, with respect to cause and effect, do n...
Find a book that describes a lot of philosophical -ism’s; pick the one closest to your beliefs. From the choice of -ism’s, look for the -ist that eith...
Which is PRECISELY the error Kant points out regarding Hume’s characterization of the principle cause and effect. Sure we can “think” it applies in al...
True. That is dialectic conversation. Reasoned argument between opposing positions, or as you say, philosophy progresses in a dialectical manner. None...
Dialectical, as in the Socratic dialogues, insofar as reasoned arguments tend towards a truth? Yes, as long as philosophy is discussed among rational ...
Flawed, yes; bullheaded, no. Egotistical.....ehhhhhh, maybe. (Grin) “....This sceptical philosopher did not distinguish these two kinds of judgements,...
First.....thanks for the compliment; ‘preciate it. As for when, ehhhhh, damned if I know. Whenever it feels right, I guess. The further back in time o...
Been following your dialogue from the beginning, finding nothing worth bitchin’ about, instead finding your novel approach interesting. But I have to ...
I can live with that. I don’t know from which translation (if any) Wick is working, but I’m betting it’s much newer than my 1909 Haldane/Kemp literary...
Schopenhauer didn’t construct a Möbius strip, didn’t equate his philosophy to one, didn’t consider it an explanation with respect to the subject/objec...
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