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I thought your approach was….. ….and because I don’t subscribe to that approach in toto, isn’t the onus on me to describe the disagreement and argue t...

If you took beauty to be an abstract conception, why would you ask me, of all people, if it meant that such conceptions are real, when I just stated f...

To me it does, but then, this quintessential yankeevirgobabyboomer likes each thing in its place. This goes here does this, that goes there does that,...

Ok, but I guess I’d favor a more eliminative version.

Mmm, no; no, he doesn’t. Or, rather, he shouldn’t. The representationalist observer immediately perceives the environment, but only experiences repres...

Agreed, but restricted to the eye. Nothing internally and outside the eye uses light. The carotid artery and assorted peripherals may be necessary, bu...

The way this all makes the most sense, is if the point of the query here….. ….is that you can’t get to “cake in the oven” from the mere effect of mole...

Ha!!! Yeah, but who’s gonna believe it was that easy? Except us of course.

And good musings to you as well. Am I correct in supposing you mean by direct perceptual relationship, is with one’s body? But that can’t be right, fo...

Pardon me whilst I philosophize for a few minutes here; do with it as you will. Is this rhetorical? Perceptions of the world is unintelligible, direct...

Absurd to deny, I should think, and thereby easily dismissed. Now, whatever shall we do with realism?

And I’d agree. They are entangled insofar as they work in conjunction with each other, and that necessarily, but only for a specific end, re: experien...

Yeah, I did. Sorry. Distant to me means far, so I just took that and ran with it. ————- And I agree with that, iff it is the case the human intellect ...

Pretty much what I had in mind, yep. The object, lemon, is given, the means for the occurrence, smelling, is necessarily presupposed, but neither of t...

First and foremost, because this…. ….would seem impossible to justify. There is no cognition in perception; the senses don’t think. That being the cas...

First….thanks for the response. I’m not singling you out, honest. ….while I have a hard time accepting, given physiologically proper operations, that ...

Be that as it may, when I observe the statement “perception sometimes distorts reality” I have but two conceptions and a copula relating one to the ot...

For no particular reason…. How do we go about proving whatever distortion there may or may not have been, is caused by perception? What is the nature ...

A necessary relation, and some means by which it occurs. (??)

Reasonable, to be sure. On the other side of that methodological coin, I kinda think endorsement of the LNC makes even beneficial scepticism over-rate...

Doesn’t seem that way to me. If all agreed on realism being the doctrine that describes a condition of a thing, what sense does it make for some to di...

Even if all that’s fine, with respect to the direct/indirect dichotomy alone, how does that, or how does each of them, relate to realism? Realism is t...

“…. scepticism—the principle of a technical and scientific ignorance, which undermines the foundations of all knowledge, in order, if possible, to des...

What, then, of the senses? Agreed on the first, but how does the second follow?

Did I not say that brain activity, relative to the self, is given? The…what???? Your reflexivity is my reciprocity, and no, they are not synonymous wi...

Of course, but we weren’t discussing brain activity. If you wish to go there, you’re obligated to connect the self and its activities, a predominantly...

There isn’t any space in a thought, and if the self just is that which has thoughts, one is temporally inseparable from the other. ————- I don’t think...

Conveyed….from where? Given that there is no such thing as an empty thought, it follows necessarily that when a self has a thought, it must be that th...

Absolutely. All conceptions are posterior to intuition, in Kant. You mean, cogito at the expense of substance? If so, then yes, I’d agree with that.

So does he. The empirical proposition is initially a derivative of Mendelssohn's materialism; the disagreement is the evolution of the “Refutation of ...

Immediate appearance is before the processing. Object here just indicates that which is processed, depending on which sense is affected. The object fo...

Was my “Dunno, but maybe….” your first clue? Is any opinion not subjective? Doesn’t “opinion” characterize the majority of postings in this kind of pu...

Yes to both. I cannot do science in a dream. While it could be said by dreaming I may represent myself as if I am doing science, in fact I’m not doing...

I’m a week late to the party, so the following is more or less rhetorical….. TI is not a world-view, although it may be said to contain the ground for...

Yeah, ok. All my fault. Sorry. Good luck.

Good luck finding where I said judgement are concepts. If I didn’t say it, what possible ground could there be for you to claim a misunderstanding of ...

While this is correct, do you see the fault in judgement in supposing it has been the case with respect to this conversation? And if there’s no eviden...

For a few hundred years, it is, for all intents and purposes, the bible for critical human thought. Why wouldn’t it? Knowledge has certainly evolved, ...

Further? This implies concepts are judgements, when they are in fact only representations. For why judgement is needed, when there are already concept...

All judgements having to do with things, are of conceptions only. I never said no other faculties were associated. In fact, other faculties must be, g...

All and each sensation, depending on its mode of intuition, is represented by its own conceptions. The compendium of those conceptions, synthesized in...

Depends on what you think proper operation of judgement entails. Pretty sure I made clear, according to the original transcendental philosophy, it doe...

What….so the associative theory of mind works like the relation of car parts, I understand the relation of car parts….obviously, since I presented it…...

Crap, I spoke too fast. Imagination synthesizes; judgement merely represents the synthesis. My badly stated shortcut, sorry. Productive imagination sy...

Judgement doesn’t conclude, it synthesizes. “…. Conceptions, then, are based on the spontaneity of thought, as sensuous intuitions are on the receptiv...

Given that empirical knowledge just is experience**…. (“… to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which i...

Because the point was….. “….we do not have to conceive of the ‘something’ that underlies appearances as a material object. It might as well be conside...

Didn’t have one; just curious. That’s fine, provided proper account is taken for it.

Did you read the “Multi-Layered Conception….” paper linked on the previous page?

Same here. As they must, I should think. I rather think experience consists in very large part of entirely of correlations….. ————— I agree. But your ...