The whole idea of having, the only reason to have, a concept, is to represent that thing perceived, by a name. The name apple merely indicates how the...
….which is irrelevant if the experience in question is impossible. There no reason to care about semantic truths, indeed there couldn’t even be any su...
Thing about details, upon being convinced of some set of them, it’s awful hard to put them aside. First thing that comes to mind, for that discipline ...
I was just trying to say that theoretical systems metaphysics is a pretty good way to distinguish one from the other, their respective commonalities n...
Would you be inclined to agree that although the prevalence of the continental tradition writ large has declined, at least it couldn’t be said to have...
First and foremost, and from which all relevant distinctions evolve, the presence in continental, the absence in analytic philosophy, of theoretical s...
Agreed, in principle. With the (entirely personal) caveat that any comprehensible notion of mind, as such, is necessarily conditioned by time, reflect...
All logic is consequential: if this then that. For a logical system, if this then that and from that something else follows. The implication from your...
I’m guessing anyone thinking deeply enough about stuff he doesn’t know, gets himself into a pickle of some sort or another, sooner or later. Assuming ...
There is that argument, but mine, given the context, is concerned with higher intellects in juxtaposition to lesser, and it is to the lesser the lack ...
The matter is the clay; the general arrangement of the matter is the statue; The matter contains all forms possible from the substance of the matter; ...
Exactly, insofar as it is implicitly self-contradictory, hence altogether impossible, for a minded creature to comprehend a mindless condition. Compre...
If I may: As to the summation…. “…. That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how is it possible that the faculty of co...
Yes, much better. Thanks. (Self dope-slaps. Shoulda got there by myself) ———- You, too. Nice rendition of the essay. Thanks. But I reserve self dope-s...
Hmmmm….. I think we’re allowed a certain closedness, which may reflect a related philosophical label, provided we’ve been intellectually honest in the...
I thought that as well, but isn’t a syllogism a logical construct in propositional form, which we create? Oh. Nice catch on scholastic philosophy/rigi...
Given the procedure shown below, there is a systemic distinction between a conception and knowledge. We think an a priori conception iff there is no c...
“….If we think at all, we must think of ourselves (…) as submitting to the order of reasons rather than creating it….” (Nagel, 1997) “….finespun argum...
Bottom line, my thoughts are….either there, 1.) isn’t one, or, 2.) is one albeit of illegitimate origin. ————- No. The context for that comment was kn...
The source of phenomena does not cognize….. “… it is quite possible that our empirical knowledge is a compound of that which we receive through impres...
Thanks for the nod, Bob. Hopefully whatever I contribute helps in some way. If he correctly concludes, how can a paradox arise? Isn’t a paradox only p...
Ever been to the center of the Earth? Have any experience of it, whether direct, indirect, 1st, 2nd, 3rd…..hand? Ever going to? Think you got enough t...
HA!! What…no sense of adventure? No foray into the sublime? Not a fan of time-wasting? But yeah, I get that a lot; explains the great disparity betwee...
Of course I know of a particular man, and therefore of course he’s accessible to me; I got a tv. To know of a thing, is not the same as to know the th...
If something is inaccessible to us, we cannot know of it. Which is not to say we cannot infer, from an experience, its cause. But I’m not interested i...
I disagree. All notions of physical, all of that which is conditioned by natural relations, do rest on the same ground, but such ground is Nature. Nat...
Back in The Day, 60 Minutes ended each show with “Point/Counterpoint”, parodied on SNL most hilariously between Jane and Dan. (jesuuuuuus, that as fun...
I agree, at last in principle. From Day One your correlations and my relations have busied themselves trying to meet in the middle. A priori has alway...
Fits the offered criterion of an existent/thing, no different in principle than an ice cube in a glass. Feynman says fields are things, but he’s a sci...
At least with respect to my experience, cutting through the clutter, has always been your philosophical modus operandi. Gotta appreciate that bottom-u...
WHEW!!! Thanks. I was wondering how I was gonna get myself out of that personal self-contradiction, if it was something I actually said. One can do wi...
Hey back. Yeah, we been around this block a few times, or one like it, over the years. Been fun too, for the most part, despite our dissimilar groundi...
That part attributed to me, isn’t mine. Or isn’t mine in conjunction with what came before it. I’d like to deny I ever said it, but….crap, I forget st...
I’d answer that the fact an object is named, makes explicit, e.g., a “painting”, has already represented a thought, or more likely an aggregate of the...
I’m guessing the inference should be that the Magritte is relevant to what I said. I’m just not sure which relevance, affirmation or negation, I would...
Of course; not one of my contentions. Expression is objectified representation of conceptions, but not necessarily of rational thought, which is a cer...
A rather bold statement, is it not? Dogs, and other lesser animals sufficiently equipped with vocalizing physiology, seem to communicate with each oth...
Hmmm…… Given the irreducible condition of human reason, re: the propensity for inquiring after impossible results, how would it ever be concluded less...
Oh absolutely. Along with a whole bunch of mutually agreed presuppositions. Still, in affirming what you say, it doesn’t make any difference to anythi...
I’m putting myself in the ‘discovered’ camp regarding constructions, but for understanding, rather than logic. Hence, insofar as discovery may be by m...
On “what is the real nature of truth”: “…. The old question with which people sought to push logicians into a corner, so that they must either have re...
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