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…the world (as perceived), is presupposed, and from such temporal antecedence…. ….the independence of it with respect to perceivers, is given necessar...
January 01, 2026 at 12:58
Pretty much what I’m saying: there’s nothing cognizable in a sensation alone, so nothing to do with its cause or its resolution. Pure reflex of course...
December 20, 2025 at 23:04
Right, hence my meaning in saying to know of having it is superfluous. In response to your to have it and know you have it are two different things. T...
December 20, 2025 at 21:25
I don’t need to know there is a sensation beyond having one. The given sensation makes the knowing of it superfluous. Agreed, in principle, for sensat...
December 20, 2025 at 20:41
In order to know what things are one must conceptually represent them to himself and judge accordingly. This is knowledge of. One has no need of conce...
December 20, 2025 at 01:50
Ehhhh….I don’t do psychology. I’m happy just knowing stuff, and while I think of myself as a knowing subject, that is not to say I know myself. But I ...
December 19, 2025 at 21:18
Oh damn. Sorry. Not sure what I’d change, but thanks for correcting me. Again, I’d agree self-awareness is intrinsic to every conscious act. I maintai...
December 19, 2025 at 17:38
This is a whole ‘nuther argument. I might agree that understanding and all are acts of the intellect, and the subject to which they belong is consciou...
December 19, 2025 at 16:32
Yeah, it’s kinda hard to make certain just how much Aristotle is in Kant, beyond the general conditions. He does credit the categories to Aristotle, b...
December 19, 2025 at 14:21
As you know, Kant was the chair of metaphysics and logic, and had great respect for Aristotle, using logical syllogism as ground for his critical prog...
December 19, 2025 at 11:50
That’s you talking, not the system in which consciousness is a consequence. If I am the experiencer, understander and reasoner, what am “I” doing whil...
December 18, 2025 at 21:01
…proper understanding of the origin and use of the transcendental. Transcendental is a condition representing the possible determination of the partic...
December 18, 2025 at 18:04
As did Schopenhauer; nothing wrong with it, as long as it remains true to its name. Wouldn’t be fair or right to call it transcendental philosophy whe...
December 17, 2025 at 13:13
We have to be completely separated from the unknowable, don’t we? An unknowable reality is a contradiction in terms, technically, but still, we have t...
December 17, 2025 at 11:54
The structure of subjectivity goes beyond the purview of Kantian transcendental philosophy, in that the structure of subjectivity must include pure pr...
December 16, 2025 at 18:15
Ok. Thanks.
December 16, 2025 at 00:20
Yes, in that the object in its entirety is the experience. When the perception is already determined as, e.g., basketball, as far as the human intelle...
December 13, 2025 at 15:42
Ehhhhh…..I’m sure there’s an abundance of abstraction, from the physical mechanisms of the brain to those conditions which facilitate an explanation f...
December 11, 2025 at 21:41
“…. One must imagine Sisyphus happy….”
December 11, 2025 at 15:36
Because the reference is Kant…… For his relation to moral philosophy, care needs be taken for which pure reason matters. …entirely a priori, but not n...
December 11, 2025 at 14:47
For that being of sufficient intelligence, “normal” is that in the negation of which, is irrational.
December 11, 2025 at 10:39
More opinion. Like a snake that can go a few days without eating, a sloth that can go a few days without taking a trip to the “bathroom”, so too has i...
December 08, 2025 at 17:52
1957 1787 “….The old question with which people sought to push logicians into a corner, so that they must either have recourse to pitiful sophisms or ...
December 06, 2025 at 11:50
Yeah, well, you know…I’m that much in agreement with your general philosophical presentation, if I didn’t pick a nit once in awhile, I wouldn’t have a...
December 05, 2025 at 13:12
I might be inclined to suggest the way we construe….interpret….our sense of what is real, is always in accordance with the sensation the real provides...
December 04, 2025 at 15:08
The real world object (the named, experienced representation)…. One of these things is not like the other. Everydayman could care less iff it occurred...
December 02, 2025 at 12:40
Yes, the intellectual intuition. Understanding is that faculty for which no other kind than the discursive could even be imagined, and no other at all...
November 30, 2025 at 19:54
There‘s a two-year-old CPR thread on here, in “Categories - Reading Groups”, with 600+ posts.
November 30, 2025 at 14:53
Oh. Sorry.
November 30, 2025 at 13:49
The problem is two-fold. First, CPR goes to great lengths to show that thinking is wrong, and second, doesn’t go to hardly any length at all to show w...
November 30, 2025 at 13:26
If you’ve any serious interest, I highly recommend at least the translator’s intro, CPR, Guyer/Wood, Cambridge Press, 1998… https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn....
November 30, 2025 at 11:14
B344-5 in Guyer/Wood, is understanding warning sensibility not to exceed its purpose, which it would be doing if it treated the object understanding t...
November 29, 2025 at 02:33
We’re good.
November 28, 2025 at 19:51
Of course they are not identical, never said they were, and never should have been thought to imply they were. That they have common source can be des...
November 28, 2025 at 19:25
Hey now. It worked for me, and I’m richer, smarter and immeasurably better looking.
November 28, 2025 at 15:57
Yeah, I’ll own that. All that is real are the schemata of “reality”, just as are all things the schemata of “world”. Postmodern/current philosophy doe...
November 28, 2025 at 15:00
Hmmmm, I’m not sure he could. I doubt Locke had any inkling, nor entertained the possibility, of knowledge given from man himself. Empiricists in gene...
November 28, 2025 at 02:35
The most prominent relation Kant had with Locke’s philosophy, as far as I know, is the notion of innate knowledge, which Kant rejected. As far as empi...
November 28, 2025 at 01:32
Technically, it is things in the world that are empirically real. The world is a general conception representing the totality of those empirically rea...
November 28, 2025 at 00:43
Hardly from god. Kant’s motto, circa 1784: sapere aude. From the nature of human intelligence. Speculative metaphysics means you gotta stop somewhere ...
November 28, 2025 at 00:31
Yeah, that is ironic, hence ill-warranted “revolution”. That and the notion of treating metaphysics as a science. Still, both manifest as paradigm shi...
November 28, 2025 at 00:08
From the perspective of Enlightenment philosophy in general, and Kantian metaphysics in particular, transcendental thinking is thinking (the synthesis...
November 27, 2025 at 23:56
Good. But ya know…realm of noumena. Understanding. Same as the transcendental object. Both concepts thought transcendentally.
November 27, 2025 at 20:47
They are, but should they be? I recommend the section which is commonly, but without proper warrant, called the Copernican revolution, the major premi...
November 27, 2025 at 14:01
Verse 4, line 2. Truer words, and all that, for all of us I should think.
November 27, 2025 at 12:48
Mine as well, that knowledge a priori arises from pure reason itself, in the form of principles. When I observe, e.g., an object falls to the ground w...
November 27, 2025 at 12:20
Subject/copula/predicate: consciousness/is/appearance; consciousness/is/(presentable)object. Really? The unity of consciousness is apperception; when ...
November 27, 2025 at 12:11
From that if/then, follows necessarily that because noumena are not phenomena, noumena cannot be entities, insofar as phenomena are necessarily repres...
November 27, 2025 at 11:47
I’m finding I should have led with this at the beginning of our dialectic: for you, what does it mean to posit? ——————- What citation can be taken fro...
November 27, 2025 at 11:28
Indeed. A bridge too far. For me to undergo any mental state, is just the state of me.
November 27, 2025 at 02:33