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Every object of perception, no matter its name after its perception, is conditioned by space and time and is a mental content. Images in memory were o...
August 28, 2023 at 11:19
It may be too wide for all that the human intellect can do, sure. But with respect to space and time, experience is only ever going to be whatever the...
August 26, 2023 at 21:30
If perception is predicated on physiology, wouldn’t perception be possible even without things to perceive? Wouldn’t the senses still work, even if th...
August 26, 2023 at 14:29
True enough, and the bane of humanity in general. That notwithstanding, if you ever come to know what you shall do, or what you shall not do, then you...
August 26, 2023 at 12:13
Sure, but at the risk of detouring the thread topic? Up to you, of course; it’s you that called the meeting. Moral obligation relative to interest, in...
August 26, 2023 at 11:46
We know nothing better than we know our own will. If the world is will, then there is nothing we couldn’t know about the world. Kant’s “epistemic limi...
August 26, 2023 at 10:07
Negative on both. Moral obligations begin with interest in a principle, and one SHALL, not merely SHOULD DESIRE to, abide by a categorical imperative ...
August 19, 2023 at 23:21
….and both are no more than mere experience. Philosophy is a system, and a system is not an experience, even if all experience is by means of it. Ikno...
August 19, 2023 at 16:49
Same as it ever was, huh? “…. Human reason has never wanted a metaphysic of some kind, since it attained the power of thought, or rather of reflection...
August 19, 2023 at 16:36
While I agree morality is a covenant, I reject morality as having any connection with religion, insofar as the covenant holds with one’s self alone. I...
August 19, 2023 at 11:21
I can see that. Technically, we might say one is the aesthetic domain, one is the discursive domain, truth overlapping both, from pure practical reaso...
August 19, 2023 at 01:29
You have the searchable CPR, so for your own sake, check out “Of Reason in General”, around A299/B356 or so. For your own sake because I probably won’...
August 19, 2023 at 00:47
Shall we start over? I inject moral as a qualifier for obligation, because the topic is concerned with moral facts. I thought to continue the moral co...
August 18, 2023 at 22:52
That’s kinda the whole can of worms, innit? We’re going to bother with establishing a category, calling it “truth”, demand a certainty from it….then o...
August 18, 2023 at 21:16
Gotta be careful here. The nominal definition of truth, indicating merely an example of what may be a truth, is not the same as the logical criteria i...
August 18, 2023 at 14:12
Ok, but why are desires not simply synonymous with tastes? Moral obligation: that interest of will, by which the worthiness of being happy is justifie...
August 18, 2023 at 10:03
Your quote hits the sweet spot in me. Which is sort of a euphemism for spending a long time in the dark between the ears. But you and I both may have ...
August 17, 2023 at 17:48
As you say, it’s not impossible that someone will claim they are his.
August 17, 2023 at 13:37
I might go the other way, and surmise that all my reveries of thought have philosophical implications.
August 17, 2023 at 13:31
Yeah, those damn demons. If one of ‘em wants to make me only think it’s me counting my own fingers, not much I can do about it.
August 17, 2023 at 13:04
….with which I am in total accord. I agree with the proposition that moral obligations do not begin with desires.
August 17, 2023 at 12:19
All good, nevertheless my only objection is here: fundamental obligation is categorical, represented as a command of reason, re: shall, whereas hypoth...
August 17, 2023 at 11:57
According to You-Know-Who, only mathematics affords demonstration, as opposed those propositions that are “immediately certain”, which, I guess, just ...
August 17, 2023 at 11:00
Philosophizing is social. is doing the approach to philosophy; when such introspection arrives at a conclusion, philosophy is being done. Haven’t you ...
August 17, 2023 at 10:00
No heights. Depths. My thought for defining element was the intuitive use of pure reason. Step down: subsuming a possibility under a principle; Step d...
August 16, 2023 at 23:24
Yes, I get that, but the ask is….what is a defining element of the mind. I guess I don’t get how something every human mind can do, or there is someth...
August 16, 2023 at 16:12
I was wonderin’…..like…..why should we attribute to our minds a defining element given from our senses, when it is certain other animals have senses? ...
August 16, 2023 at 14:09
And I commented to the contrary, with consistent generality, the highlighted relevance not on rules. Your originating mention, as stated, is, ipso fac...
August 16, 2023 at 11:00
Ehhhh….only you says it wasn’t. At this point, it’s a tie, I think it was both clear and relevant and you apparently do not. Or at least question whet...
August 16, 2023 at 00:40
Can you trust me that there is one, otherwise I wouldn’t have posted them?
August 15, 2023 at 23:41
All I know of Quine is the Two Dogmas essay. Do you have some short article where he states, or some second order literature that recounts, the argume...
August 15, 2023 at 16:51
Not those idealists of a certain kind: “….. For although education may furnish, and, as it were, engraft upon a limited understanding rules borrowed f...
August 15, 2023 at 09:51
Yeah, my take as well. Thanks.
August 14, 2023 at 20:24
“…. All that in any way belongs or can belong to the world is inevitably thus conditioned through the subject, and exists only for the subject. The wo...
August 14, 2023 at 19:48
Oh absolutely. Simple complementarity principle: if we insist there is that which is knowable, that which is unknowable in itself is given immediately...
August 13, 2023 at 00:58
I meant the curtailment the extravagances of thought without stifling it. The subject imagining freely, but understanding he can only go so far with i...
August 13, 2023 at 00:19
I hear ya. My getting us clearer as subjects, is probably more closely related to metaphysics, which in turn is closer to your mention of critical tho...
August 12, 2023 at 23:28
Acute. Celebrated. Ablest, most ingenious, of skeptical philosophers. A few of one’s accolades for the other. If only he’d taken that one last step……
August 12, 2023 at 22:53
Ahhh. All’s well that ends in reason alone. Still….bone of contention, due to my lack of sufficient study perhaps….seems odd Kant would declare it rat...
August 12, 2023 at 21:47
Good. Thank you. A response not loaded with useless metaphors, just straight answers to direct questions. ‘Preciate it. On “Religion Within the Limits...
August 12, 2023 at 21:03
What is bare reason? Place of reason. Is that supposed to indicate a condition wherein the faculty of reason is suited to be employed? So Kant's place...
August 12, 2023 at 13:02
Given my understanding of the conceptions the words “unworldly nonsense” represent, it is safe to say I’ve never spent one second of time on it. If it...
August 10, 2023 at 13:53
……all too often with the inverse quantity/quality ratio.
August 10, 2023 at 13:01
If one holds with the position that it is we who decide what reality is, or, perhaps, how the reality that is, is to be known as such, that says more ...
August 10, 2023 at 10:57
‘Tis vain hope, I must say, although you are nonetheless welcome to take that point.
August 09, 2023 at 19:06
In the text, Descartes stipulates that the I exists….as a thinking thing. The common iteration of that stipulation only states “I am”, which does not ...
August 09, 2023 at 13:55
“…. The first pure cognition of understanding, then, upon which is founded all its other exercise, and which is at the same time perfectly independent...
August 09, 2023 at 13:27
Just offering a hidden dualism. No big deal. All the other ones been beat to death, so,…..
August 08, 2023 at 21:21
I am me because it is impossible I am not, regardless of others.
August 08, 2023 at 17:25