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Agreed. To perceive the proposition is to perceive representations of its empirical content. To perceive a representation in the form of a word is not...
December 17, 2023 at 23:20
Hopefully not on my account.
December 17, 2023 at 22:38
No apple, as such, ever existed independently of that by which it is conceived, and, thereby, is represented by that name. The object represented by t...
December 17, 2023 at 22:34
“…. In truth, it is not images of objects, but schemata, which lie at the foundation of our pure sensuous conceptions. No image could ever be adequate...
December 17, 2023 at 14:14
Metaphysics is general, although Kant’s ethics, more inclined toward what he called empirical anthropology and the moderns call cultural or the strong...
December 17, 2023 at 11:24
Oh, I been in the back of the room, keeping my head down, taking notes. A Kantian with respect to moral subjectivism I’ll admit. Ethics is more than t...
December 16, 2023 at 22:49
I always kinda figured you’d end up here.
December 16, 2023 at 21:40
The very point of a priori mental machinations never was the mind, re: human intellectual system, in relation to the world, but the relation of the hu...
December 16, 2023 at 12:54
Reference? Link?
December 14, 2023 at 17:27
An experiment on time. I’ll bet it’s actually an experiment on something relative to time.
December 14, 2023 at 17:11
Of course. There should be as many interpretations as there are folks that bother with it. What he wanted the interpretation to be, should be singular...
December 14, 2023 at 16:35
So? Same is it ever was. That it is done is given; the possibility for guarding against it is what the Critque offers. Take it or leave it, but first,...
December 14, 2023 at 16:08
To record, reason and apply logic presupposes the capacity for it. To come to judgement presupposes there is that which is possible to come to. Undoub...
December 14, 2023 at 15:49
Oh dear. The entire human intellectual system is presupposed. Do you have any idea at all, just how far it is in the procedural methodology, between r...
December 14, 2023 at 15:06
An aberration of the whole point. You’re giving an example from understanding’s point of view, which presupposes the logic. In response to the accusat...
December 14, 2023 at 14:13
“….. Now general logic, in its assumed character of organon, is called dialectic. Different as are the significations in which the ancients used this ...
December 14, 2023 at 13:44
A mistake at the expense of, or in spite of, the quotations.
December 14, 2023 at 13:34
Yep, he does, at least empirical content. If one wishes to insist the content of logic is its own laws or principles for its operation, he has misdire...
December 14, 2023 at 12:59
Yes. All empirical knowledge is contingent and derived from inductive inference. Agreed. The elements are a priori. The elements are the content of in...
December 12, 2023 at 18:34
….yet he states, clear as the nose on your face…..impure. How can it have nothing to do with exactly what he’s saying? “…. By the term “knowledge à pr...
December 12, 2023 at 16:51
Not sure what I’m supposed to do with all that. Pink elephants and noumena are of no interest to me, and I’ve never seen 700nm.
December 12, 2023 at 15:01
Kindasorta, I suppose. We have the physiological capacity to perceive, in various modes, given from the type of biological being we are. No it doesn’t...
December 12, 2023 at 13:37
Devil’s in the details. What is a phenomenon; how did it get to be one; what makes it possible; What does “pure” mean; what does “a priori” mean; Virt...
December 12, 2023 at 12:31
Yep. Now all you gotta do is figure out exactly what that means, and how it reflects on the human cognitive system overall. Your modern mentality comb...
December 12, 2023 at 11:55
Or, understanding thinks invisible objects. Almost, yes. He is talking about space as an intuited a priori representation, in order to remove it from ...
December 12, 2023 at 11:36
Ok. Never mind. Happy to be of service, nonetheless.
December 11, 2023 at 19:35
Presupposing something you didn’t need. What might that be?
December 11, 2023 at 19:23
More than irrelevant; incomprehensible. Vision needs that which appears, space does not appear, space cannot be a sensation, space cannot be real. It ...
December 11, 2023 at 18:36
Maybe, dunno, but we’re not doing physics. We’re doing transcendental philosophy. I don’t recall saying or implying that seeing was a property of spac...
December 11, 2023 at 18:23
What is size, but a relation to a subject? Only an intelligence thinks about or compares sizes. Why not, then, limit the conditions by which relative ...
December 11, 2023 at 17:08
“…. In whatsoever mode, or by whatsoever means, our knowledge may relate to objects, it is at least quite clear that the only manner in which it immed...
December 10, 2023 at 17:34
How could it be the case, that matter is real but space isn’t? That’s easy: come up with a whole bunch of ideas demonstrating how space isn’t real, le...
December 10, 2023 at 15:14
“…. Our expositions, consequently, teach the reality (i.e., the objective validity) of space….” (B44, in….well, everybody) Validity being, of course, ...
December 10, 2023 at 14:53
Exactly. Existence of matter. Things. Objects. That which appears to human sensibility. That of which sensation is possible. That for which phenomena ...
December 10, 2023 at 13:43
That argument may have some validity. In The Metaphysical Principles of Natural Science are the quite gentle objections, absent strict conclusive evid...
December 10, 2023 at 13:39
Despite the direct textual references refuting that opinion, you both continue the misunderstanding. Or I do. One or the other. ————- Absolutely. Why ...
December 10, 2023 at 13:14
“…. Reality (…) is that which corresponds to a sensation in general; that, consequently, the conception of which indicates a being (in time)….” To est...
December 09, 2023 at 19:42
Not that ‘schema’ is much of an improvement, but at least there’s no…or less….chance of confusing it with ‘object’. Just wondering’, you know, given m...
December 08, 2023 at 17:05
Balboa Park, San Diego, 1971, windowpane. You know, laying in the grass, you can’t tell the difference between imagining the grass is growing or your ...
December 08, 2023 at 00:26
True story. I missed most of the 60’s and all the 70’s, being as stoned as that person seems to be.
December 08, 2023 at 00:18
Oh. Good to know. But, seeing as how none of that’s in CPR, and that’s my only interest here, guess I’ll mosey along, leave you to it.
December 07, 2023 at 23:54
OK. So can I hear space? If I close my eyes I can’t see bacon frying, but I can still smell it. Space isn’t then, perceivable to all the senses? Or ac...
December 07, 2023 at 23:17
I use JMDM for its searchable text. Guyer/Wood has C & P but isn’t searchable. Plus, it has an outstanding editor’s synoptic introduction. Quite acade...
December 07, 2023 at 22:09
Yes, we are talking CPR, and in which we find….we don’t perceive a tree in the first place. We perceive “an undetermined object” by its appearance to ...
December 07, 2023 at 20:10
A tree….with space. A tree with bark, a tree with leaves. A tree with branches, roots, cones/nuts. A tree with space? What does space do for the tree ...
December 07, 2023 at 18:46
Yes, he was, but to make the point that is not what it supposed to happen. Think of it as a minor antinomy. Something reason lets us do (think the emp...
December 07, 2023 at 17:19
That doesn’t relate to his maintaining the empirical reality of space? I couldn’t locate the exact wording he “asserts space as Empirical Reality” and...
December 07, 2023 at 16:02
“…. We maintain, therefore, the empirical reality of space in regard to all possible external experience, although we must admit its transcendental id...
December 07, 2023 at 14:52
Yet again, the relative obscurity has nothing to do with individual understandings. While it may be true there is no obscurity in the quotes, it remai...
December 07, 2023 at 14:04
Wrong. I’m not accepting what you think Kant is saying. You probably want to say I’m not understanding what Kant is saying, and thereby I’m complicati...
December 07, 2023 at 12:58