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And I, yours even moreso. One had better appreciate and respect those with far greater formal training than himself.

Of course I do, to some of what you wrote. We call it a mere difference of opinions, but that reduces to a disparate sets of logical inferences, which...

Empirically, to know is to represent phenomenally. That which we simply “are” cannot be represented phenomenally, insofar as such representation is gi...

Hey you….. Would I have preferred S not to write? Great big emphatic no; it’s not for me to say. From a personal point of view, would I have preferred...

In the examination of “us” as the bare minimum form of the possibility of experience is itself a multi-layered complexity. ———— In the first exchange,...

Personally, I find the relative value of S’s philosophy not related to human maladies, but to the general human investiture in transcendental idealism...

Thanks; much appreciated. But in all honesty, taken from a moldy Enlightenment tome, formerly a positive paradigm shift in philosophical thought but n...

I’m never going to be happy with that approach. Experience is an abstract conception, is entirely a mental construct, hence exclusively internal. What...

My sentiments exactly. And I mean “lesser” animal to indicate precisely that missing primordial consideration. And I mean “consideration” insofar as o...

You’ve stipulated conditions under moral subjectivism, but you haven’t stipulated moral subjectivism itself. What if moral subjectivism, as a self-con...

I agree with all that, which means I accept your general argument, perhaps while disputing the minutia of the grounds for it. Would it have been bette...

Because they are all reducible to instinct. Meaningful experience implies reason, or at the very least, understanding, which is not a component of mer...

Ok, so how would you attribute meaning to an experience without a description of its conditions? If meaning is a relation, wouldn’t the relations need...

My teleological/aesthetic to your purposivity/purposefulnes…..don’t we want all our bases covered? Yes, undoubtedly. Or, if not governance per se, the...

Hey….. Good to see you once again. Agreed. However purpose is understood, it follows from judgement alone, and for whatever a purpose is supposed to b...

I agree that for a creature to have a meaningful experience, such creature must be able to at the very least describe the conditions of that experienc...

And how do we get our experiences right? —————— This presupposes all experiencing creatures experience via direct perception, which makes explicit the...

Experience, as such, yes, the reason being, all of that by which experience is considered a valid concept is derived purely a priori from the nature o...

Ahhhh….yes, sounds good to me. It’s tough, innit? On the one hand we just don’t know, on the other we make stuff up to tell ourselves at least somethi...

Hopefully you’ve understood and I were both talking about human experience related to things active in the world, re: “what a cow is doing”, and its m...

From the object’s point of view, it is an effect on human sensory devices. From the point of view of those devices, the object is an affect on them, t...

Correct; you’re preachin’ to the choir. See my comment to Banno three days ago, pg. 66. The difference now is, you said “talk of what the cow is doing...

Nope, we sure don’t. To talk about what the brain is doing there doesn’t even need to be a cow to talk about. But to talk about what the brain is doin...

Caused by O in an appropriate way…yes. Whereby E’s nature can be characterized independently of O….not a chance. There must be something given by O, f...

….mediated by the perception of synthesis with some other entities, such as representations. We don’t perceive both the object and the representation ...

All good. ————— Correct. We see things. Undetermined things. Through metaphysical systemic functionality, we cognize representations of those perceive...

Speculative metaphysics, a complete, logically consistent, sufficiently explanatory theory on the one hand, scant but progressive empirical knowledge ...

Mmm…….no. Metaphysically, yes, downstream from that which is not physiologically conditioned; scientifically, yes, downstream from nerve endings.

That which appears…. Perception…. Sensation…. Intuition…. Productive imagination….. Phenomena….. Full stop. Of particular note is the resulting mental...

Nor do I have to, in order to argue the philosophy of its ground.

That’s half of what we have, albeit the more important half. It is necessary there be that which serves as the occassion for the construction of the s...

If it is the case to think just is the employment of the faculty of understanding, then the negation would be necessarily true, in that to not think i...

A perfect example of the difficulties with language: to impute dualism to actuality is metaphysically disastrous, re: whatever is just is, Aristotle’s...

A set of principles? Given the fundamental nature of principles in general, why would a set of them benefit the opportunities of one person over anoth...

No disagreement from me here. Nevertheless, we don’t know what goes on under the hood, yet we rise to the occassion of making it comprehensible to our...

Think about what? Representationalism makes perfect sense metaphysically, which just indicates an logically necessary method describing how our intell...

Understood. Concepts. Intuitions. Judgements. Representations. Numbers. Pretty hard to pin down the location in the brain of those thing that don’t ev...

The implication being, it is possible experience is not in the brain, which is the same as outside the brain, or in a place where the brain is not. If...

With respect to the thread topic, re: realism, this space has been called “intuition”, the faculty of empirical representation, in which the matter of...

Objects and their properties. This implies the objects come fully equipped with whatever constitutes them as they are. While this is certainly true, i...

In the interest of metaphysical doctrines by which the rules of a given system are determined, hallucinations are merely the exceptions to them. In co...

Hmmmm…ok, try this: guy stubs his toe on a tree root, cannot then legitimately deny he stubbed his toe on a tree root. He might claim he didn’t in ord...

If it be granted the senses inform but do not judge, the notion here of protection from mental uncertainty regarding mere perception, is moot. The phy...

I dunno. But even the Good Bishop, if acknowledged as the foremost subjective idealist, granted to his fellow humans the reality of objects, the exist...

So idealists believe our perceptions are the objects? What brand of idealists does that? I’m a card-carryin’, non-apologetic dualist, which makes me h...

Certainly not space, but I rather think any philosophical framework mandates time as a fundamental prerequisite for its methodology. Or, maybe I just ...

Agreed, but “beyond me” still qualifies as a certain relation. If there are but two fundamental relational representations, and for relations in which...

I suppose one could be justified in claiming something like, “….There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philoso...

I suppose, depending on how logically consistent one wishes to be, but generally I agree with that, which should relieve me of scientific anti-realism...

Cool. That’s what I understood by your space and time in a “cosmic” sense. True enough, insofar as physics is nothing more than human intelligence at ...