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Ooooo….15 whole minutes!!! Time well spent, then, huh? Hard to call passages bracketed by quotation marks as plagiarized, innit? I think that’s why th...
December 28, 2023 at 12:24
All well and good; just don’t confuse the nature of experience, with the experience itself.
December 27, 2023 at 22:02
By presupposing it given some general observations, then constructing a theory that supports the presuppositions without contradicting the observation...
December 27, 2023 at 16:54
Of course it is: “….our criticism is the necessary preparation for a thoroughly scientific system of metaphysics which must perform its task entirely ...
December 27, 2023 at 14:57
What….use my reason to answer your reason’s questions, asked of itself? Nahhh….I ain’t gonna do that. You’re smart enough, you got the books, use your...
December 27, 2023 at 11:07
There’s a whole section on it. “…. To avow an ability to solve all problems and to answer all questions would be a profession certain to convict any p...
December 26, 2023 at 18:44
And yet, the question was…what caused Kant’s awakening from his dogmatic slumbers, which he allotted to Hume specifically. Now you wish Kant to be fix...
December 26, 2023 at 16:35
Crap. Another duplicate post. How does that keep happening?????
December 26, 2023 at 15:54
Read on. ————— Hence, skepticism and dogmatism in those who don’t.
December 26, 2023 at 15:53
If that were the case, mathematics would be impossible. We don’t care as much for that to which pure reason deals, but moreso the mechanisms by which ...
December 26, 2023 at 14:55
Everybody knows the famous one-liners….understanding cannot intuit, intuition cannot think; thoughts without intuition are empty, intuitions without c...
December 26, 2023 at 13:50
Understood, and thanks. You and are much further along the philosophical evolutionary scale than I. My point was….ideas can’t be extinguished, except ...
December 25, 2023 at 22:15
Aren’t those just complementary pairs? Are inequality/dishonesty complementary in the same degree or manner?
December 25, 2023 at 19:37
Probably right. But the scientists’ll keep stabbin’ at it, hoping for a happy accident.
December 25, 2023 at 17:21
On the one hand, it doesn’t seem like there could be, but on the other, it seems impossible there isn’t.
December 25, 2023 at 15:37
Yeah, like…..whose bright idea was it to get rid of ideas anyway???
December 25, 2023 at 13:40
According to Kant, because Hume used the word ideas, as an example, without proper criticism of the principle by which the conception connects to his ...
December 25, 2023 at 12:27
“….Algebraist nor Mathematician so expert in his science…” What science would a mathematician be an expert in, if not mathematical science? ———— Kant ...
December 25, 2023 at 11:15
As I said….your reference: Treatise on Human Nature 1.4.1., Of Scepticism Regard to Reason, although it should read…scepticism with regard to reason. ...
December 24, 2023 at 23:24
From your reference…. “…. There is no Algebraist nor Mathematician so expert in his science, as to place entire confidence in any truth immediately up...
December 24, 2023 at 21:47
I addressed what Kant thought was the very problem Hume took for granted as not being one, that the critical examination of reason regarding its own p...
December 24, 2023 at 19:02
Didn’t sound that way to me. You didn’t ask about any exact thing. Wouldn’t matter anyway; there wasn’t any one exact thing. I gave what I thought exp...
December 24, 2023 at 18:21
Ask and ye shall receive, or, be careful what you wish for. The problem: “….as the world has never been, and, no doubt, never will be without a system...
December 24, 2023 at 14:34
Ehhhh….been there done that. Got the coke-bottle glasses.
December 23, 2023 at 14:32
Yep, from his dogmatic slumbers. So it depends on what he means by dogmatic, to figure out just what Hume woke him from. Was he slumbering and proper ...
December 22, 2023 at 18:51
Yeah….one of the things he says I either didn’t bother with, or couldn’t wrap my head around, dunno which….is that he frowns on dogmatism, but grants ...
December 22, 2023 at 17:59
I’m ok with that. I don’t like the notion of psychological activities particularly, but modern times finds value therein, somehow. Just remember…reaso...
December 22, 2023 at 15:27
That’s the whole problem: pure reason has no limit. The sole raison d’etre for the Critique of it, is what can be done about that problem. What we can...
December 22, 2023 at 15:11
In Kant, this is wrong. This is correct. IFF one accepts that the thing that appears to our senses, is the thing of the thing-in-itself. It is the aim...
December 22, 2023 at 13:06
On matter, from a Kantian point of view: “… the real in space—that is, matter…..” “…what we cognize in matter is nothing but relations…” “….Matter is ...
December 21, 2023 at 18:39
On the continued fallacious attribution to noumena, from a Kantian point of view: “…. The critique of the pure understanding, accordingly, does not pe...
December 21, 2023 at 15:27
On the fallacious attribution of principles to the understanding, from a Kantian point of view: “….All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thenc...
December 21, 2023 at 13:50
https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/5/25851/files/2017/09/kant-first-critique-cambridge-1m89prv.pdf Just a click away……
December 20, 2023 at 21:28
He’s very harsh on Young Hegelians, calls them mushheads following a philosophical numbskull. Kant just says he disagrees with a guy without demeaning...
December 20, 2023 at 00:20
A common lament to be sure, but, believe it or not, there are passages that make so much sense, it helps in drawing sense out of the rest, like this: ...
December 19, 2023 at 23:52
Delete duplicate
December 19, 2023 at 22:38
Oh. That’s fine. I hope I didn’t give any indication I thought otherwise. Correlation not causation and all that.
December 19, 2023 at 22:38
We should both step back, maybe. Your… ….makes no sense to me, and my…. …..seems to have made no sense to you. I meant by the proposition that just be...
December 19, 2023 at 21:45
No prob, but it goes without saying…..any comment on Kant is only an opinion at least, and a best guess at most. I mean, when you come across sentence...
December 19, 2023 at 21:26
Close enough. To reduce it all to the subtleties of transcendental philosophy might be a little different, but the gist is good enough for a general i...
December 19, 2023 at 20:47
The difference between he intellect receiving from without, and creating from within. Logic, and by association, pure reason, still needs the guidance...
December 19, 2023 at 20:45
You don’t. You reason to a justifiable conclusion on sufficient grounds.
December 19, 2023 at 20:14
In a Kantian sense, it is already the case we don’t intuit anything in any comprehendable nature. Intuition is that faculty of representation by which...
December 19, 2023 at 20:03
A possible existence and its possible phenomenon may be irrelevant at a certain time, but time isn’t something to be ignored in general. Contingency i...
December 19, 2023 at 17:56
Concepts, in and of themselves with respect to their origin, re: understanding, and method of use, re: logic, no, they do not. Existence has to do wit...
December 19, 2023 at 17:01
On the fatal flaw in common misunderstanding of noumena, from a Kantian point of view: “…. I call a conception problematical which contains in itself ...
December 19, 2023 at 16:40
Which presupposes God is, or may be, a phenomenon. If a God is conceived as the unconditioned, then to be a phenomenon necessarily contradicts the con...
December 19, 2023 at 14:00
Hmmm…..metaphysically impossible. If metaphysics is the doctrine of thought, the metaphysically impossible indicates a impossible thought. Any thought...
December 19, 2023 at 13:12
It doesn’t. The thing to be known by a particular name already existed; we just didn’t know what it was, how to talk about it. No object comes named; ...
December 19, 2023 at 10:57
On the justification for, but not the deduction of, the pure a priori conceptions of the understanding: “…. General logic, as has been repeatedly said...
December 18, 2023 at 13:39