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Not quite right, in that reason alone does not account for PURE reason, right there is the title of the book. “…This attempt to introduce a complete r...
November 03, 2023 at 14:04
Pitiful, ain’t it? Just as ol’ Henry didn’t understand production efficiency. Landry didn’t understand football. Gandhi didn’t understand civil rights...
November 03, 2023 at 11:03
Logically grounded theories in the metaphysical discipline necessarily justify, or validate if you’d rather, whatever is the case given by the course ...
November 02, 2023 at 22:42
Ok. Thanks.
November 02, 2023 at 17:51
Superficially true, but insufficient to explain empirical discovery by a solitary subject. ….has more to do with the relation of cause and effect than...
November 02, 2023 at 16:07
It isn’t, which was the point: thought of a cup is to name the thought, whereas the thought “cup” references that which is thought about. The thought ...
November 02, 2023 at 13:19
Might be closer to the case to say, there had to have been the thought “cup”, simply from the fact “you must have had” is already given by the thought...
November 02, 2023 at 10:44
That’s fine. Intuitions are made up, fabricated. Kant calls it something else, but works out to be close enough. Sensibility is a big place involving ...
October 31, 2023 at 20:41
All of which was the point. If you already know there is a proof of a claim (things do exist outside the mind), I don’t understand why you would then ...
October 31, 2023 at 12:59
“…. We shall thus spare ourselves much severe and fruitless labour, by not expecting from reason what is beyond its power, or rather by subjecting it ...
October 31, 2023 at 12:10
Kant does in fact claim things do exist outside minds, and that necessarily so. In fact, there are two arguments in affirmation of it, concluding from...
October 31, 2023 at 11:46
Everyone. At least, of a certain kind.
October 30, 2023 at 10:21
Here’s the overlooked part of the whole ding an sich dichotomy: the thing of perception, or appearance, is the thing of the thing-in-itself, the only ...
October 29, 2023 at 12:25
Ehhhh….I dunno. Immanent/transcendent relates mostly to understanding. Understanding is the faculty of thought, so immanent/transcendent relate to the...
October 29, 2023 at 00:26
Whew!! Thanks for the addendum, the add-on. I was having trouble with the post, but…..hey, no worries…..I’m all better now.
October 28, 2023 at 19:01
It is the function of understanding/judgement, to as closely mirror the thing as it is in itself with the thing as it is represented in us. So….not by...
October 28, 2023 at 16:58
Immanent isn’t contrasted to transcendental. What I mean by immanent is that which concerns understanding in its considerations of possible experience...
October 28, 2023 at 16:49
Ok. Thanks for that. I rather position transcendent in opposition to immanent rather than transcendental, that’s all.
October 28, 2023 at 13:15
While this is in accord with Kantian T.I., there is nothing implied therein having to do with negative knowledge. “Impossible to know”, or, knowledge ...
October 28, 2023 at 12:22
Cool. All I’m saying is for the guy that thinks up….conceives……a thing, then for him to be presented with an argument implying he didn’t think it, mig...
October 27, 2023 at 14:28
Let’s give it a rest, shall we?
October 26, 2023 at 21:53
Strong argument against the conceivability of p-zombies? How can there be one, when successful arguments affirming such conception have been given? St...
October 26, 2023 at 18:26
Judgement corrects itself.
October 26, 2023 at 17:41
Correct. Logic being the rules by which the relations of contents obtains. The thinking system needs content; logic, not being a thinking system, does...
October 26, 2023 at 14:48
That’s fine. Yours is further along in the book, whereas mine merely states the initial conditions. Now, I think that’s sorta backwards. 1.) The possi...
October 26, 2023 at 11:36
No one was disagreeing with that. It is the content in logical propositions by which we know anything at all. Nevertheless, it is by the form the cont...
October 25, 2023 at 18:40
Simply put, I mean, logic is a method for examining critical thought in general, in the form of…..for that critical thought which is constructed logic...
October 25, 2023 at 16:35
While there may indeed be different types of logic, I would still ask, which type of logic has its content already given?
October 25, 2023 at 13:53
If you fill in the contents, doesn’t that imply there isn’t any? That being the case, isn’t that exactly the same as logic being contentless? Logic….....
October 25, 2023 at 12:56
Even if I grant all three points are assumed as true, what makes them transcendent claims?
October 25, 2023 at 10:58
After all the observable physical determinism, the speculative metaphysical reductionism, all the chatter and nonsense, the otherwise unexceptional hu...
October 23, 2023 at 11:26
That the book will lie to me is not a supposition of mine, insofar as I’m categorically informed of the inevitability of it beforehand. The book telli...
October 22, 2023 at 19:27
The Universe is a self-contained system without external influence, which serves as the criteria for a conception, in this case, autonomy. Upon stipul...
October 18, 2023 at 14:46
Think of me as one of those two ol’ Muppets in the balcony, nodding knowingly to the other, says, “BRILLIANT!!!” But alas, there’s an unstated determi...
October 17, 2023 at 18:52
If I’m looking in a mirror, regardless of what I perceive in the seeing, there is a phenomenal representation given to my intellectual system. This is...
October 15, 2023 at 12:02
Close enough. When I see “way of thinking”, I interpret “way” as “method”.
October 13, 2023 at 09:31
Not what I’m arguing; THE self is a valid general idea, having a myriad of representative conceptualizations from various ways of being understood. MY...
October 13, 2023 at 09:24
And from mine, I find much more parsimony in the notion my self is affected, or, which is the same thing, I am affected. To be affected by my thoughts...
October 12, 2023 at 23:23
I wasn’t being so general, meaning only the self by my comment. See below, if you like. ———— Which gives rise to my comment. That which is trying to s...
October 12, 2023 at 22:31
It’s almost incomprehensible that there must be that which is affected by itself. How can it be asked about a thing, when the very thing asked about, ...
October 12, 2023 at 11:51
Oh. My fault then. Sometimes I get too analytical. Preferred implies intentionality, but there’s only one way to think, within the confines of the leg...
October 12, 2023 at 09:55
Hume’s dilemma, and a logical snafu: it is impossible to both structure, and be derived from that which is structured. Build a house with boards, and ...
October 11, 2023 at 23:46
Oh, I certainly do, but there’s no damage done by it. Different strokes and all that, right? Is it a precept or some kind of general rule of phenomeno...
October 11, 2023 at 22:51
(Sigh) Overlooked, or outright dismissed, is our brief exchange on pg. 14, re: brain/appearance. Pretty common knowledge the brain has no nerve ending...
October 11, 2023 at 13:29
Absolutely. Concur 100%. You’ve considered a certain authority’s philosophy as wrong in at least a particular instance, which makes explicit you’ve th...
October 11, 2023 at 12:48
D’accord. The analytic dudes got ahold of it, sent it off into the metaphysical puckerbrush. As do I, re: perception. Every perception is directly rea...
October 09, 2023 at 20:11
Might I rest assured you’re familiar with the so-called “dual aspect’ vs “dual object” theory, regarding transcendental philosophy, or theories of per...
October 09, 2023 at 14:34
No brain has ever been a phenomenon to the subject to which it belongs. The only brain that will ever appear to me, is someone else’s, and even if I i...
October 09, 2023 at 11:43
To the extent I have a problem with indirect realism, is reconciled by distinguishing the operation of the cognitive system, in and of itself, on its ...
October 09, 2023 at 10:48
Yeah…hence the closing comment I made to Wayfarer, re: the intrusion of clinical psychology. No such thing as self-knowledge. It’s a catch-phrase mean...
October 08, 2023 at 22:29