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How I tell left from right kinda does, but looking into the philosophical problem of what it means to be left or right, or the origin of the conceptio...

From a non-philosophical perspective, I suppose something like that suffices. For any plurality of things, there is a necessary spatial relation inher...

….which presupposes there is one. Well, shucks, Mr. Bill, seeing as we’re all human, of course there is one. But which one is at issue here? It certai...

The entire raison d’etre of the first Critique, is to prove those two statements are contradictory. I’m ok with that, if “deflationary” means getting ...

I thought context might help. Or not. You may know Kant considers the “I” that thinks to be the ground of consciousness, just meant to provide that “…...

. The things-in-themselves are not the ground of appearances; if they were they would not be “in-themselves”. Things are the ground of appearances, he...

I wouldn’t dare such a thing.

Thanks, and hopefully I got it right enough. I got ’s attention, so…..we’ll see.

I look forward to it, and the opportunity to be shown how something in what I wrote can be understood at least differently, and perhaps better.

No need to remind you the tread subject is Hoffman. With that out of the way, and admitting I know very little of Hoffman’s philosophy, I’ll just say ...

Half-agreed, yes. Meditations 3, #14 and #15 forward a good, albeit generic, rendition of the subsequently infamous transcendental ding an sich. But i...

Yes, insofar as substance is that which requires nothing for its existence (F. P., #51), of which there is but one, re: God, hence all substance to hu...

Have it your way. ———— Not. The schema of substance is the permanence of the real in time, and it is only by it that the succession and/or coexistence...

Never said it was; qualitative measure belongs to or describes the state of the subject, and represents not that he is conscious of uniting all his re...

I didn’t say anything about refutation; I said I could argue one against the other, which is easy because they go in different directions from a commo...

….and quite well done, I must say. I don’t feel it is my place to argue your position, even while I wouldn’t have any problem at all arguing Kant agai...

He constructs an understanding of Nature in accordance with a specific kind of intelligence. I don’t understand that project as “constructing” intelli...

Yeah, I suppose that’s my problem here: the idea of “constructing” intelligibility, that intelligibility is something constructed. I find nothing to s...

So the idea of construction in Kant’s usage becomes objectionable because the intelligibility of things is constructed out of the unintelligible? Is i...

Ahhh…yes, got it. (Kinda figured that’s what you meant): All OTHER possibilities reduce to zero. If all possibilities reduce to zero there is no outco...

(2017) “….Implications: Our results contribute to an understanding of the world in which neither objects nor spacetime are observer-independent….” (17...

Yep. Even if the permanent substance of an object remains, the experience of it, which for us is the same as knowledge about it, in separate times and...

To….one? Indeed. If that were not the case, it might actually be impossible to explain how we make mistakes, insofar as given that we did in fact all ...

Dunno about most, but the ones that write books I own just say there are objects, the rest is either given through inference, or superfluous. KEY issu...

I didn’t mean that; I said consciousness is a capacity, understood, in accordance with a particular methodological system, as a necessary condition of...

Odd, innit. That with which we are most familiar….our own inner workings, whatever they may be…. is the very thing we know the least about. With respe...

To be conscious is to unite conceptions in thought, an activity with a vast plurality of representations; consciousness is that by which conceptions c...

Dunno quite where you want to go with this, but I wonder if positing “rational” consciousness implies a variety, but on the other hand, you’re trying ...

I think it deeper than that: consciousness is the unity of all my representations.

Link? (Never mind; found it)

Ehhhhh…..not my problem. No one will ever find space by the bucketful, and if you ask a guy for a minute of his time, that is exactly what you won’t g...

“…. if we take away the subject or even the subjective constitution of our senses in general, then not only the nature and relations of objects in spa...

I only brought it up, cuz I flashed on that being us, if your, “After all, objects of cognition are also objects of nature.”, happened to occassion an...

Or, I misunderstood what you wrote. I took….. …..as characterizing objects of cognition as already being mind-independent, which is possible if object...

Hume, E.C.H.U., 2. 2. 16, 1748. R.O.Y. G. B.I.V, from a prism? In passing; just me, thinking out loud is all.

To question the mind-independence of a thing, is to suppose the possibility of that thing without a mind. To even state an affirmative belief presuppo...

Ok. Thanks for your time.

What if the person is me? Does common sense then say I am the subject of experience, or does it just say, I experience? ….’til tomorrow….

And I can’t understand the distinction that has been made for me. Color of ball… Size of box… Meaning of phrase… Intent of speaker…. …in all of those,...

I never would question the centrality of the subject, irrespective of the discipline used to describe it. My contention is the relation of subject to ...

The first two are logically obvious and metaphysically central, yes. That being said, there are various ways to affirm the conceptions of subject and ...

All that, and it is absurd to then insist arriving at knowledge is something we do, as some post-moderns would have for us. The temporal, inferential ...

To say the world is what is, presupposes “world”, yet still leaves “what” unanswered as to its case. The world is what is the case is the analytical t...

Ok. Thanks.

I must have missed something, somewhere down the line. Just wondering why one would doubt something despite its various successes. Must be some subtle...

That may very well be, but as far as I’m aware, only one of any real significance puts the very ground of its own destruction in writing. Gotta apprec...

I must agree, but with a touch of irony, if it be granted the single most influential textual representation contained an offer of benefit to posterit...

There is no reason to regard the Kantian ding an sich as anything other than a metaphysical construct a priori, the only usefulness of it being a repr...

I’m not really sure. It is described as a “…theory (…) (that) has advantages over other moral theories…” so it attempts to construct a moral foundatio...

If the problem is…. ….my view is there isn’t a problem, or at least there isn’t this problem, insofar as I do not treat freedom as weigh-able or relat...