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‘Preciate it. I got two of ‘em, a rarity I must say.

Ok. If it isn’t unintelligible, indicating it is intelligible, what would it look like….what conditions would have to be met….to go ahead and do it? H...

….and I’m saying to posit unintelligible objects, is itself unintelligible. We don’t care about the intuition we don’t have; we only care about settin...

Gotta be careful here. Is to posit an entity to think it? Kant allows the understanding to think whatever it wants, but these thoughts are mere concep...

Some metaphysical theories may be about the world, but I wouldn’t hold with any of them. But then, as well, metaphysics is sometimes said to be above ...

From the PubMed link…. “…. A key insight here is that structure emerges from influences that are not there, much like a sculpture emerges from the mat...

Theory characterizes (its objects) relationally, yes, the first and foremost relation being, such objects in conjunction with the human constructing t...

It would help to bear in mind the question for which an answer is sought. If it is the case that answers sustained by experience determinable through ...

I wasn’t expecting a response, and a well-spoken one at that. So…thanks. I’ll address just this one item, the rest being uncontentious other than rele...

Or at the very least, presupposes the possibility of it. From there, it’s legitimate to propose a theory under which it may be described.

At least one thing must have an intrinsic nature, such that there is a “you” physics doesn’t inform. If physics….. ….and insofar as there is an intrin...

D’accord.

Yeah, sorry. I get skittish when language is brought into the dialectic. On the other hand, it might just be that your subtlety escaped me, re: “…lang...

If nothing else, we agree the notion of solipsism is empty, thus attempts to disprove it are foolish. At least from the perspective of our mutual refe...

Interesting. Thanks. I might go with causal agents rather than active, with respect to practical reason. Unless you have a special meaning for “active...

Cool. That’s all I was looking for. Regarding idealism and the refutation thereof, in A, idealism is distinguished as empirical or transcendental. In ...

As you well know, Kant’s refutation concerns itself with the existence of things, but the OP asks about the existence of minds. It seems that if you’r...

Ehhhhh….I would never be so presumptuous to hint you needed support. Or even wanted any. It’s just that when they line up against a metaphysical parad...

The theorem: With only seven pages to check, I found none of your insistence that materialism is demonstrably false. Sometimes inappropriate in its ap...

Sure, I agree with that. But rulers measure relative distance (not space) and clocks measure relative duration (not time). This is not all that can be...

With the trove of usual antagonists in line, you take time for me. How cool is that? But….no, they don’t. And I think you already knew what I would sa...

Just to make clear, it isn’t space and time that is measured, so by this I understand you to mean measurement in general. I’m maybe over-thinking it.

So you’re saying, because how I represent my perspective, insofar as it is at least non-sensical or at most just plain wrong, I couldn’t possibly agre...

No. No. You asked, I answered. You could have just said thanks. I’ll end with this: an invitation to the dreaded Cartesian theater in your critique of...

“True” isn’t the judgement; it is the relative quality of the judgement; Judgements are, but not necessarily only, made by rational intellects in the ...

I certainly agree with that, but I’d re-state your premises justifying it.

Useful truths making just as little impression as those useful truths brought against…….. Thing is, consciousness is already strictly a metaphysical c...

“….This** can never become popular and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for finespun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impres...

You’d think that would be ‘nuff said.

Agreed; the idea has enough problems without being unscientific. It was never supposed to be scientific in the first place, only meant to catalog the ...

Dunno. Maybe the autonomic system would still work, but the cognitive system wouldn’t for lack of direct sensory input, and the aestetic part wouldn’t...

Comatose being the state of unconsciousness? Hmmmm…dunno. Seems like comatose presupposes the antecedent state of being conscious, right? One never is...

Dare I say it? I’ve no experience with being comatose. Even the deepest sleep doesn’t turn off senses, although it’s unlikely I’d exercise my taste bu...

There’s dozens of definitions for experience, but I personally favor the one that says experience is knowledge of objects through perception. For cons...

I’d agree with that regarding phenomena; these are something constructed that did not exist as (now) thought. But understanding just is the faculty of...

It may, but not necessarily, mean….construction is thought; to construct is to think. I’m bouncing yet again: The representation of sense data is phen...

Cool. So which of the trails and tribulations of human-kind shall we rectify next?

Nice. —————- Rather more broadly than you, apparently…. For metaphysics I mean the study of the use of reason in determining the possibility, principl...

Interesting. Are you saying thinking in dualist terms is not a metaphysical operation? Can’t be investigated or talked about from a metaphysical point...

Yikes!! Glad for your recovery. Agreed on aesthetics. That, and my cognitive prejudice, are both purely subjective judgements, conditioned most likely...

Ehhhhh….I would be far less generous: it’s pathologically stupid to deny the existence of that external thing, the forceful contact of which is suffic...

Yes, it is; no material object, no sense data, comes with a name already imposed on it. Idealism is that by which the imposition of names is possible;...

Yes, Prolegomena is much friendlier. Ironic, innit? Same guy…..700-odd page book on very complicated subject with a short simple title, mere 5-page es...

Yeah, well, you know….in the interest of “certitude and clearness”, perhaps Kant might have been better off shying away from his notoriously difficult...

“…. many a book would have been much clearer, if it had not been intended to be so very clear….” (Axix) He’s talking about the overabundance of exampl...

For the premier poster of original material, and actual philosophical material at that, even if beyond my personal interest, to excuse himself, would ...

Therein lay some difference in our philosophies: an assertion is a statement predicated on language, but the OP is concerned with the relative quality...

Agreed, in principle, but from that, how does it not follow that all thought is irrational? It is unintelligible that all thought is irrational, for t...

Yes, we can think all kinds of stuff, related or unrelated to each other, but never simultaneously. It follows that for the thought of P from this inf...

Sorry for thinking that if the demarcation meridian references the necessary separability of law from rule, the demarcation problem would thereby refe...