Humans are naturally endowed with a relational intellect, for which the capacity, as function, for discernment is integrated necessarily, but in doing...
…..which, of course, presupposes knowing what they are, by the subject, or self, effected by them. Anyway, just a thought, probably best left aside ou...
Paradox resolved. Self-knowledge is a transcendental paralogism, a logical misstep of pure reason, re: knowledge of self treats that to which knowledg...
I got a notification of mention, by Banno, but I wasn’t even aware of this thread. Dunno how that happens, but anyway….. Interesting thesis, and well-...
Not sure how moral necessity can be pragmatic. Moral necessity by itself, says enough, with respect to assuming a higher order. As for such higher mor...
“…..We come now to metaphysics, a purely speculative science, which occupies a completely isolated position and is entirely independent of the teachin...
Metaphysics is a discipline; imagination is a faculty. Even if one chooses to deny to imagination the denomination of faculty, metaphysics is still a ...
Observation proves that is the case, either in ourselves or in our observing others. It sometimes happens that even knowing what is to be done, isn’t....
So Descartes was wrong, re: when he said the one thing he couldn’t doubt was his doubting yet you affirm doubting is an act one can be uncertain about...
I’m saying we have to grant that the things in the world are caused. Even if we don’t know what causes things, if there’s some thing right in front of...
What would you say is the main reason you’ve read Groundwork a few times, but you’re not a Kantian? Would it be that you weren’t persuaded by it enoug...
Oh cool. Socratic dialectics. I’ll play along. Briefly. Yes. Not always. Yes, I’m sure I’m acting, iff I’m in the act of doing something and aware of ...
Yeah…that’s dialectical inconsistency on my part. Properly spoken, it should have been, there is awareness of it, rather than I am aware of it. There’...
That was never a contention simply from the fact it was never submitted as such, in the original syllogism, which doesn’t even suggest community as a ...
How do you figure I’m affected by the very thing I didn’t notice? I concede a thing happens, an effect on me, but from that I don’t have to concede I ...
Truth be told, I don’t have Metaphysics of Morals as a completed volume, so am not qualified to compare it with the Groundwork, which I do have. I hav...
Which is the whole point, as far back as your metabasis eis allo genos in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, in which there is found in the minor a “cha...
What do we wish, by means of proper reason, to extract from a syllogism? If it is truth, the syllogism at hand contains a true conclusion, but that co...
Ehhhhh…..the discussion begins with, “saw the following in a Kant book”, so makes sense to relate the following to what was actually in the Kant book....
Again, not if that person and I are in the same inertial frame. As I said before, it is true there would have been a ~12 x 10-8sec (dunno how to type ...
Perhaps because the OP stipulates a Kantian source indirectly through Allison, which means it should for all intents and purposes be “picked up” in Ka...
Not in my inertial frame it doesn’t, hence, it is not an effect on me, hence I am not affected by it. ———— For what you said, I said “Nope”, which mak...
As I wrote a few days ago, I’m not directly affected by, therefore care very little for, e.g., gravitational lensing and assorted SR/GR relations. It ...
That isn’t so much Einstein’s metaphysical view as it is his precursor to his own empirical view. I’m not sure he even posits a metaphysical view in j...
Yes, as we talked about a few pages ago. …..Kant didn’t have the vision in physics Einstein had, and Einstein didn’t accept the vision in metaphysics ...
There might not NEED be real objects we represent, but are there in fact such objects? We already know we have the ability to image real objects…..for...
Hmmm….I see what you mean. Does it change anything, though, regarding synthetic a priori knowledge? I mean, even if we give ideas empirical content, b...
By Kantian definition, and in relation to synthetic a priori knowledge, it cannot. Use another definition, perhaps it can. “…. By the term “knowledge ...
It may be good and detailed, but….does it ring true enough like a dainty dinner bell…a little tinkle, or resoundingly true like The Great Hour Bell….1...
HA!!! I don’t visit this category, so never saw the thread. Which would have got my attention forthwith, donchaknow. If only you’d done that notificat...
Nothing to do with the objects of thought, but only of thought in general. Was there ever a thought you didn’t think? Of course not, which is to say e...
Nahhhh….not your fault, so much as a difference in conceptual domain, perhaps. I think of perception as a mere effect, without regard to a internal pr...
All ‘a priori certain’ is meant to indicate, is if it comes from human understanding, for whatever is thought, it is impossible for that thought to no...
We’re talking about perception, which is the initiation; he’s talking about experience, which is the end, of knowledge acquisition. Experience is inde...
From some speculative points of view, it is. Objects are given to us via perception, The most we need to say, is there is a time of perception and a t...
Not metaphysically, it doesn’t, with which the thread topic is concerned. We perceive a thing, or we do not. Perception requires an object, and even i...
Actually, in his 1926 Britannica entry, he calls it “four-dimensional continuum”, derived from the fact things are described in a space and in a time,...
It isn’t a fabric, it’s a mathematical model of a gravitational field under specific conditions. The Universe, reality in general, in and of itself….w...
There is an established metaphysical system in which this condition is precisely descriptive of true moral agency, re: Enlightenment deontology. The o...
That’s not what I’m tying to get across, no. Interest…..you know, that certain je ne sais quoi, that which underpins a consideration, a focusing of at...
I would say the argument is objective, the conditions in conflict be what they may. On the other hand, here is an proposition that states any cognitio...
The interest isn’t of the will, which is the autonomous faculty of volitions. The interest residing in the agent, is in a principle, with which the wi...
Nahhhh….oil and water. She’s a retired Fed in the intelligence services with U-Dub Masters in history and library science, for her, it’s facts and not...
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