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What’s the difference between time being discovered always existing as the when of or between events, or, time never existing at all until reason inve...
December 30, 2018 at 14:15
While this may be necessary, is it at the same time sufficient? I have no issue with C.I./A.I drawing from memory as its means of analogy, much the sa...
December 29, 2018 at 17:39
While I quite agree this appears to be the case, we inevitably arrive, after all the philosophical reductions, flying headlong into the face of the Ar...
December 29, 2018 at 12:54
I’m not all that up on computers.....maybe they’ve progressed far beyond my knowledge of them, dunno, don’t care. Still, I wonder......if I were to te...
December 29, 2018 at 12:38
Couldn’t I be “voicing” to myself? Cartesian theater with the exclusivity of a single paid admission.
December 28, 2018 at 11:21
I guess you could say that. Seems to me that kind of rationale belongs more to empirical psychology than moral philosophy: “.....on what the feeling o...
December 27, 2018 at 15:14
Ok, fine. Pleased ta meetcha, I’m a card-carrying deontologist, myself. Kind of a moral absolutist, I suppose. Care to elaborate on your version of ho...
December 26, 2018 at 21:50
By equal motivation I understand you to mean the actions deemed necessary to satisfy the requirements of the person seeking your protection. In such c...
December 26, 2018 at 19:51
“.....First, I don't know why it would appear to you that I'd be saying that objective morality would be predicated on anything about mental machinati...
December 26, 2018 at 17:21
“....In any case, if Kant believes that you should ascertain whether an act is moral or not not by its consequences but by the motive or the intention...
December 26, 2018 at 00:08
“..... for objective morality to exist in my view:.....” In your view, apparently, the possibility for objective morality is predicated on the ability...
December 25, 2018 at 17:38
Ahhhh...ok. Thanks. From this, I would answer your original question in parts. First, they are very different, so better/worse and right/wrong are irr...
December 25, 2018 at 02:56
I looked for, and honestly, with the inclination towards actually finding, a disclosure of Kant’s three forms of the categorical imperative. I found d...
December 24, 2018 at 23:34
“what, for you, are your anchors in your thinking-about-thinking“ For me, explore various theoretical/speculative philosophies concerning knowledge, f...
December 24, 2018 at 21:20
An observation: On noumena: The ubiquitous “thing-in-itself” refers simply to the possibility that the knowledge of a thing does not make explicit tha...
December 24, 2018 at 17:56
“do empiricism and logic have equal grounds in determining reality?“ Yes. Empiricism informs us there is something to make determinations about, logic...
December 23, 2018 at 17:12
Does everything, every thing, have its start? It must, if it is to be called a thing. How could there be that which is called a thing if it did not ha...
December 23, 2018 at 14:15
I wasn’t asked, but nonetheless: if by “perfection” of a thing it is meant the ascension to the “perfect” idea of that thing, than the formal criterio...
December 22, 2018 at 18:59