When Hume suggested a human with otherwise correct vision can install a missing shade of blue, he has already granted that the name of the color doesn...
If I may, in conjunction with your quote as it concerns the empirical side, I submit that the only need to make sense of appearances being deceptive, ...
Which world is that? Existent worlds depend on human understanding, possibly existent worlds depend on human understanding. Even those cursed damnable...
Hence my favored position, calling a false dichotomy, insofar as it concerns realism. Direct mediated access (to real things, as sensation), yet indir...
HA!!! I’ll see your massive, and raise you a complete!! Pretty silly of ol’ Mother to endow us with a most seriously complex intellectual machinery, t...
I like mediated/unmediated over direct/indirect, but should they relate to perception? You’d know better than I, but it seems to me like the same fals...
There is a way. Observation for empirical constructs, the assessment from which is experience; logic for rational constructs, the assessment from whic...
I like it!!!! Shades of Plato’s Republic: at the point/moment of perception, we know THAT it is, but we don’t know WHAT it is. ———- After the edit, I ...
Cool. I was just thinking…..Enlightenment moral philosophy proposed freedom as a causal “what not”, the necessary condition for production of objectiv...
Most likely not. But, as I said, from analysis of the concepts themselves, the notion is reducible to mere unmediated objectivity. Right, but the answ...
So is anything necessary regarding direct naive realism? If we’re already given that which is necessary, with respect to an answer to a question conce...
Easy. Accept the intrinsic duality of human intelligence, regardless of the various suppositions for its methods. Direct realism…..merely from analysi...
Doesn’t make any sense with respect to the central nervous + peripherals system from a physical point of view, nor with respect to some theoretical co...
Yeah….something said is the superficial silliness of it all on the one hand, re: the implicit absurdity involved in denying there are real basketballs...
Everyone directly sees the tree. Maybe not, but there are representations necessarily. It is impossible that there are not. Or if not representations,...
The guy on the left. Take away the figure in his head, put in the cloud with the figure in it. The cloud indicates the figure is a representation of t...
Yes. Otherwise, you’d be forced to admit the two guy’s eyes don’t work the same way, and by association, it is indeterminable who’s eyes will see the ...
Is there a name you might use, by which this faculty is also known? To say one exists with a nature that fundamentally includes such an objective obli...
Categorical error. Existence for humans is immanent, not transcendent. There may be possible transcendent existences, but impossible that they be empi...
A423/B451 Thing is, we are only impartial umpires for someone else’s judgements as expressed in his language. For each of us, for whatever our own rea...
“…. As impartial umpires, we must lay aside entirely the consideration whether the combatants are fighting for the right or for the wrong side, for th...
HA!! I was thinking more Lucy to everybody else’s, except a scant few, Charlie Brown. Destroys the game by yanking the football, then thinks it a win....
C’mon, man. Don’t do me like that. The “which case?” is your discussion with , re: , then repeated in kind with , re: You chastised me for not having ...
See…this is where guys like me get lost in the modern shuffle. I pointed out the error in the one case, where the initial condition was an idea but yo...
No problem, examples notwithstanding. That understanding is required nonetheless, in order for the argument following from it to hold. Basically all i...
An idea is a “problematic conception”, a singular representation of the understanding, for which the intuition of an object belonging to it is impossi...
Depending on whose terminology is used, such speculations are transcendental, insofar as ALL speculations, whether physical/empirical or transcendenta...
No. Reason doesn’t concern itself with the reality of appearances, nor imagining ideals. Reason is a logical function, by which the principles we unde...
From the prelude to the exposition of the antinomies…. “…. It may be said that the object of a merely transcendental idea is something of which we hav...
You’re overthinking it, perhaps. The context is…..what exemplifies philosophical thought, pursuant to the OP, or elaborations on it. This asks for som...
The context is what exemplifies philosophical thought. Real human individuals, in the form of “finite human beings” never are alone sufficient for tha...
Yeah, it’s pretty much established, via the historical record in general and this article by Chalmers in particular, that philosophy’s main claim-to-f...
So this must be the joke everybody’s talking about….all positions are implausible but any of them might be true. And if one of them turns out to be tr...
Which just says substance monism is no better or worse than any other -ism. So what’s the point of it? How is it not adding another implausibility on ...
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