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Exactly right. In other words, whatever the situation, guard against the illusions inevitably contained in the understanding of it. But I hold a rathe...

Ok. What do you see as his concept of the mind’s ontological status, and what was the error you found in it? Oh. That. Ok. What ontological status doe...

Thanks for the invite, but I wouldn’t know where to start. I don’t agree with 90% of what’s said herein regarding any of the three Critiques, not so m...

No, he didn’t correct the error; there wasn’t one to correct. It is impossible to know what things are in themselves, iff the human cognitive system i...

Here I am presented with thinking deep enough to be appreciated, but at the same time, fraught with inconsistencies, prejudicial as they may be. Rathe...

There isn’t a proof, per se, only an internal affirmative logical consistency. Yes, I could elaborate on the rationality justifying the categories, bu...

He argued only enough to suit the overall purpose. All he needed to do in justifying a systemic conclusion (the possibility for human empirical knowle...

Agreed, but with respect to the case at hand, the form of the perceived, but as yet undetermined, object, is not the same as the shape of it, which is...

So….anything I said find a place in your analytic idealism?

All good.

Unless the human cognitive system is granted as being representational and inherently logical, re: relational, nothing anybody says in support of the ...

So…..metaphysical reductionism to a certain point is an explanatory necessity, but beyond that point is inevitably illusory? “….6.373 The world is ind...

Not to step on ’s toes, but to give a quicker answer…… Mathematical: Of Quantity: unity, plurality, totality; Of Quality: reality, negation, limitatio...

…..which is, without doubt, the foremost logical catastrophe, like…..ever. (Disclaimer: not exactly sure you mean, so I’m begging anticipatory forgive...

Good. Better.

As you wish.

Ok, thanks.

Dissent seconded. Everything a human does is “related to….” more than “a product of…..”. Logically, the implication is that a culture or society is ne...

Nahhh….that’s not what he’s doing. He’s showing how the moral subject contradicts himself, by subsuming “meritorious” duties, re: conditioned by incli...

Enlightenment philosophy may have demystified established doctrines of the era, but at the same time, initiated its own doctrines under religious, or ...

What would be the responsibility of a lesser god inhabiting a star with no solar system to maintain?

Sure. It’s an explanatory device, and nothing more. That we’re capable of such speculations, though, that’s the wonder of it all, methinks.

“…. Natural and moral philosophy, on the contrary, can each have their empirical part, since the former has to determine the laws of nature as an obje...

Wouldn’t that be bias in its conventional sense? Or perhaps, if not conventional, then psychological? Being the red-headed stepchild of metaphysics, r...

Perhaps you’re right, but that in itself is a bias, re: embracing a mere comfort, albeit in the negative. “… Here, therefore, is a case where no answe...

D’accord.

I was introduced to Steiner a few years ago. Figured out halfway through “Philosophy of Freedom” esoteric theosophy, re: occult science, wan’t the tic...

No, not if it is the case it is impossible for an otherwise rationally competent subject to have no knowledge. To quantify knowledge of, or knowledge ...

Oh, man, the stories to be told, but only significant to those that already know them. (Sigh)

Ahhhh, ok, gotcha.

Ehhhh……he’s a psychologist and a computationalist to boot, so not to be invited to the Cool Kids sandbox.

Sadly yes. But not so much in the Cool Kids sandbox, ammiright? ———— Edit? ———— Given the innate human capacity for intuiting quantity, and the innate...

Well then. Couldn’t have chosen a better battleground than the suggestion that reason has been, or is being, eclipsed. In what world is that not a sin...

Core component, yes, but more than a supposition for Enlightenment doctrines. If it, that is, reason itself, is already supposed, it only needs be the...

I think I understand that as indicating the direct correlation between medieval philosophy and period-specific religion. Religion says there are Great...

Thanks, and respect, to both Reason as an organ, vis a vis, heart, lung, liver? Reason as an instrument, vis a vis, o’scope, meter, spectrograph? Thin...

To be moral belongs to the agent in possession of the means for being so. It follows that “what makes it moral” is not quite the correct iteration, wh...

Quick one-liner, or so…..what did you get out of The Eclipse of Reason? What is it the author wants to say, bottom line kinda thing?

Sapere aude!!!

Isn’t the conclusion an exercise in your own petitio principii, insofar as the initial premises regarding the origin of the universe are not shown to ...

There are imperatives. Imperatives are of two kinds, hypothetical and categorical. A hypothetical imperative carries the weight of an “ought” and is c...

Rhetorically speaking, as a simple matter of interest, Pierce may have laid it out…. “…. The only end of science, as such, is to learn the lesson that...

Yep. Our sensory apparatus wouldn’t work. Yep. Every experience ever by anybody. Then our heads will surely explode. Guy looks at a picture, sees what...

Not sure what to do with that. Things I imagine are not real things, but my imaginings don’t cause real things to not exist. In humans at least, imagi...

Pretty much, yep. Same as it ever was….

Nothing wrong with that; I wouldn’t think so either. But what are you trying to say with it? What’s the point? Agreed. Nothing has changed regarding t...

Ohfercrissakes. Must I preface every comment using a word, with the admonition I’m representing an object with it? The use of a word is supposed to in...

There’s the reason for stipulating consciousness as fundamental, to eliminate infinite regress. If it’s fundamental, its emergence is moot, no need to...

In what sense can it….consciousness….be said to exist? If we don’t require that consciousness exists as do other things, then we don’t need to conside...

I deny consciousness as an entity because it is not identifiable by a set of properties. Still, consciousness, even if only a conception, could be sai...