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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“.....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...
“....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...
“..... for objective morality to exist in my view:.....” In your view, apparently, the possibility for objective morality is predicated on the ability...
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...
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...
“what, for you, are your anchors in your thinking-about-thinking“ For me, explore various theoretical/speculative philosophies concerning knowledge, f...
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...
“do empiricism and logic have equal grounds in determining reality?“ Yes. Empiricism informs us there is something to make determinations about, logic...
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...
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...
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