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As do I, and that kind of clarity for truth obtains for any thing whatsoever, by reducing to the simple proposition that truth, generally, is the acco...

I got nothing else to do, so…… Is the illegality found in the categorical error of at once denying and affirming the same thing? Or is the illegality ...

Feedback. The charitable expression of circularity, which is indeed foolish, yet at the same time, inescapable. Using reason to investigate reason. Li...

Cool. I’d go as far as to take it a step further, and call it the limits of reason. But then, I suppose speculation presupposes reason, so….close enou...

Odd innit? In the attempt for empirical knowledge, the irreducible origin of it is impossible to know. Humans don’t think/cognize/comprehend in its ra...

Usually philosophy is critical of something, but Kantian philosophy on the other hand, is critical of philosophy itself. Or maybe the general metaphys...

I’m a firm supporter of the relation between the human intellect, and the method by which the world is understood by means of it. It’s not weird at al...

Do these not contradict each other? Or, how do these not contradict each other? Can a thing be both for and through, and independent of that for which...

So no subject/object dualism? So tacit acknowledgement of subject/object dualism? There is no right or wrong here. Just whatever one favors, er…..subj...

Of course. Just shouldn’t mix the empirically real with the logically valid. Human bodies are real; Experience is a condition of an intelligent subjec...

Ehhhh…..subjectivity is just another in a series of useful fictions and makes sense only in speculative metaphysics, a useful fiction which has its lo...

Which reflects back on that age-old dilemma….the body is certainly necessary, but it is not itself sufficient for such subjectivity. What is given to ...

“The physical thing as determined by physics, however, is nothing foreign to what appears sensuously” -Husserl Ok. One problem solved. The second just...

General commentary, or, the fine line between critical thought and throwing Jello at a wall. As says, philosophy is thinking for oneself, carrying the...

Cool. So is innatist epistemology an offshoot of, or derived from, the rational idealist doctrine, or implicitly contained in it? Or is it the other w...

Not being familiar with Cudworth, I went to SEP, and it starts off by saying his philosophy “defies classification”. Is he the root of your rational i...

Well then. Here we go again. A proponent of reasonable elimination, but not of reductionism. Sorta like eating soup with a fork, innit? Agreed on +/- ...

Ooooo….a metaphysical reductionist. Ain’t you just fulla all kindsza surprises. Gonna have to amend my Christmas card list. You know…after I start one...

Cool. Noumena limits a priori what can be thought with respect to the nature of reality, the ding an sich limits a posteriori what can be experienced ...

Ok, I’ll buy it. Let’s finalize: what limiting notion does the thing-in-itself represent?

Ok, I get that. Without a minimal content, any conception is empty hence meaningless. The idea, or in Kant-speak, the notion, of the thing-in-itself, ...

I thought we were talking about the plurality of real existences, which phenomena are not but representations of real existences. Categories apply to ...

Guess I’m missing something here. If for every thing there is the thing in itself, therefore for a plurality of things it follows necessarily that the...

Nope. The rest of that thinking/cognizing quote reads: “…. For, otherwise, we should require to affirm the existence of an appearance, without somethi...

“…. Conceptions may be logically compared without the trouble of inquiring to what faculty their objects belong, whether as noumena, to the understand...

Catastrophically irrelevant.

That’s some good stuff right there, and thank you for it. “…. This critical science is not opposed to the dogmatic procedure of reason in pure cogniti...

Ahhhh…..of course you’re quite right. I got stuck on language = ordinary lingo. (head explodes) ———— I agree, in principle, in that it is a legitimate...

As I think it surely must be. Nature shapes, words express the shape. I detest OLP with a passion. I relegate the doctrine to cover those that would f...

Oddly true, and slightly disappointing, in juxtaposition to….. “…. even if the original meaning of the word has become somewhat uncertain, from carele...

Far be it from me to claim I’m right, but I know what I read and I’m pretty sure I understood what I read. “…. things in themselves, while possessing ...

I’m no Taoist, that's for sure, but in western philosophy generally and Enlightenment German idealism in particular, anything experienced has already ...

Ahhh…gotcha. Thanks.

I’d agree, but what was said that enabled that thought of yours?

Pretty much spot on, I think. At least so by humans, iff our intelligence is properly described by transcendental speculative metaphysics. I mean, the...

Absolutely not. Humans have an intuitive sensibility, which makes explicit the necessity for real physical things external to us, conditioned by space...

Things that appear to us, cannot be things as they are in themselves. Upon affecting us, things are no longer in or of themselves. I’d have to say no....

Thanks. ‘Preciate it. Marvelous subtelty in there as well.

Yes, with the caveat that an object of understanding is logical only, whereas an object of sense is empirical. Since both types of cognitions belong t...

Noumena. What happens when that which is trained to be an eye doctor, wants to use that training to be a structural engineer. It isn’t as contradictor...

Oh, so….I think, therefore thinking is occurring? I get it, but that reflects on ’s note on tautological truths and minimal relations, in that the swi...

“….. I take the word ‘thought’ to cover everything that we are aware of as happening within us, and it counts as ‘thought’ because we are aware of it....

Have it your way.

Ok. Thanks.

Only things are presented, being is not a thing so is not presented. And while things that are presented presuppose the necessity of their existence, ...

Be that as it may…..I mean, you pretty much disagree with everybody…..it is clear that priority in the mind, as such, cannot be phenomena.

If this were the case, then..… …..that would follow. But it isn’t, so it doesn’t. Our experience is of representations of empirical objects, from whic...

I understand you guys are talking about Plato, but I wanted to inject this in the interest of conformity with the textual record. Priority of what’s i...

Yeah, considering the starting premises. Just as in any argument, change the initial premises, or the relation of words to conceptions, and any unique...

Wouldn’t that be a necessary precondition for the claim that all knowledge is of ideas imprinted on the senses? So saying, he has no need to prove sub...