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I think, these days, the professionals are less inclined to accept mere transcendental ideas as sufficient explanatory devices, and those of common un...

Yes, sometimes I do ask for justifications, but these are asked from an interest rather than knowledge. This then gets me into a whole different class...

To formulate an argument, logic, specifically the LNC. To formulate an argument is, after all, merely to construct a judgement, which is nothing but t...

In your 1-6, the subject is a person other than yourself. With respect to the general topic under discussion, shouldn’t the subject in fact be yoursel...

Not in opposition, as a consequence. Understanding is means, knowledge is ends, in accordance with Kantian theoretical metaphysics. Perhaps one could ...

Fair synopsis, yes. One man’s “absolute presupposition” is another man’s “principle”? ————— Ok, I can live with that, as long as the world (as it is) ...

Ok, but how would you recognize usefulness? What does a metaphysical theory do, such that it is useful for that thing?

Sure. Whatever suits you. Yeah, I get that a lot. But I don’t mind; it merely exemplifies the earlier blurb…. “…. those who are engaged in metaphysica...

I treat the concept of “mind” as something everybody knows what is meant by it even if there really isn’t any such thing, and from that, I prefer to s...

If non-dualism is an actual phenomenon, according to meditators, what is it that appears? What is it that physically, quantitatively, exists, as effec...

If Kant placed this Ultimate, wouldn’t he have already asked and answered as to what it is? I’m trying desperately to understand how Kant’s idealism c...

Oh. Ok. So if one holds with the idea that the categories of thought are fundamental and fundamental necessarily, the principle of non-duality fails. ...

Interesting notion. How would you suppose non-dualism to arise from it, on what….logical?…. ground would it be possible?

Tricky may be dependent on mere subjective inclination, insofar as there is an established transcendental idealism, while not “absolute”, is certainly...

That's pretty much as I would have it as well. How people in general should behave is reducible to mere administrative codes of conduct, and THAT is r...

Yikes. Four years on. I was just thumbing through, like I always do, looking for something interesting…. Appearances have a cause, yes: things. Appear...

Yes, in that they are each conceptions in aesthetic judgements concerning relative quality. No, in that the objects of the former are to be appreciate...

Oh absolutely. It’s those cursed turns of phrases in the Kantian corpus that instigates his successors to find contradictions. The most infamous being...

I’m sorry, but I just don’t get that. A maxim is a subjective principle; how do we will a principle? The will is the faculty of right action, or, voli...

It’s all good. It’s better to have taken the time to digest this philosophy, then to argue over differences in interpretations of it, perhaps from dif...

An opinion to which you are certainly entitled, but I would offer that Kant, being the non-stop dualist he admits to being, wants it understood the c....

Regarding the SEP article, an informative compendium of opinions, as are most encyclopedic entries of this particular subject matter. Regarding the SE...

C & P the claim.

You did not hear any such thing from me. Actually, I don’t know what you heard, but I know I never said any such thing.

I like it.

Putting aside the liberties taken with my statements, yes.

Oh. Ok. Thanks.

I feel the same way, but perhaps from a different point of view. I don’t think we have the authority to suggest for Kant anything he didn’t admit for ...

He sure had this proclivity to reduce a concept further than the average philosopher even considered. Who woulda thought general reason had so many qu...

But one would conflict with the other, without sufficiently critical examination of the differences in the conceptions and principles by which each ob...

If Kant doesn’t implicate his own religious background for the a priori pure metaphysics of his moral philosophy, why do we need to pay heed to it? I ...

I’d say this is pretty close to a Kantian ethical perspective, but I’d hesitate to call it Protestant. “…. Accordingly he would feel compelled by reas...

As in, Sellars, the myth of? Faith in…holding to….sense-data theories of direct empirical knowledge? I know I would, and I think you would, disagree w...

Ahhhh….sorta like, video killed the radio star. Ahhhh…..sorta like OLP: it’s enough that everybody speaks without having to think about how there came...

Do you think maybe that accounts for the rise of the analytic doctrine, the non-systemic program? If one system is no more provably correct than anoth...

“…. It is positively painful to see bow utterly his opponents, Reid, Oswald, Beattie, and lastly Priestley, missed the point of the problem….” You’re ...

Ill-disguised poke at British/Scottish empiricism in general?

“…. Time was, when she was the queen of all the sciences; and, if we take the will for the deed, she certainly deserves, so far as regards the high im...

“…..Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own natu...

If you’re one I wouldn’t hesitate to join up. What’s a mysterian?

Language is required to speak; dualism is that by which a functional relationship between the real and the abstract, is possible. For dualism to be in...

Yeah, me either, truth be told. I suspect a “perfect” model is altogether impossible, and a relatively perfect model doesn’t tell us what we want to k...

…..and yet, methodological dualism is still not granted as necessarily the case with respect to human intelligence. …..and yet, there is currently no ...

That object which was initially unknown became “apple”, hence to say that object is unknowable, is a contradiction. The thing-in-itself, on the other ...

If noumena are mediated reality, why do we have phenomena? We know….theoretically…..what phenomena are mediated by, re: sensation, but what mediates n...

Maybe, but with respect to a theory predicated on sound logic, honesty and convenience don’t have much sway. At its simplest explanation, noumena cann...

I’m not, in keeping with the definitions incorporated in the thesis. While it is true noumena are speculative notions, by definition a notion is “….a ...

Not as such, no. There’s serious conceptual diversity between him and his successors, in that for Kant, the only realism is empirically conditioned, a...

I appreciate your comment, and I offer these rejoinders just to demonstrate a conformity. S says…..The difference between abstract and intuitive cogni...

I bow to your expertise on all things Schopenhauer. And thanks for not rippin’ me a new one for misconstruing his philosophical value. ————- The other...