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Far FAR too many -isms and their respective -ists for me. So if no position on the mind-body problem is plausible, and substance monism is a position ...
March 08, 2023 at 16:41
Thanks. As in, “…. the thesis that the universe is fundamentally mental….that all concrete facts are grounded in mental facts….”? Substance monism ari...
March 08, 2023 at 15:12
It is a method, a type, of reason, of thinking, by which, first and foremost, the possibility of synthetic a priori cognitions are proven. Subsequentl...
March 08, 2023 at 12:36
I suppose transcendental to experience just means has nothing to do with it. Transcendental merely indicates a method of reason, and is always a prior...
March 07, 2023 at 14:17
If #1…..not so sure a reality is a collective representation. If #2…..real, and indeterminable. If #3….that object which appears to us is determinable...
March 07, 2023 at 01:27
“…. The schema of reality is existence in a determined time….” “…. For I can say only of a thing in itself that it exists without relation to the sens...
March 07, 2023 at 00:38
Everything I said here seven hours ago, doesn’t relate to the content of the post it was in response to. You did some serious editing, I must say. Any...
March 04, 2023 at 16:40
Be that as it may, isn’t the prerogative of intelligence, insofar as it deems truth to be a valid idea, to determine what it does depends on, from whe...
March 04, 2023 at 16:00
On the existence of something, agreed. But it does seem as though truth must depend on something, and absent mind and matter there is probably nothing...
March 04, 2023 at 13:54
What else is there?
March 04, 2023 at 11:05
“…..The transcendental idealist, on the other hand, may be an empirical realist, or as he is called, a dualist. (…) A370a The transcendental idealist ...
March 03, 2023 at 12:35
That is what is meant by the term appearance, yes.
March 02, 2023 at 22:53
Not to take sides, but the question in this….. ….is not supported by the answer, unless time is to be considered an empirical matter, a contradiction....
March 02, 2023 at 15:50
Agreed. Who what ask? Inferences as to what it might have been like without them, abound, now that there are percipients that do ask. That’s fine. Spa...
March 02, 2023 at 12:43
Ha!!! Saturn isn’t even thought about absent its rings, but there was a time when it didn’t have any. And I seriously doubt quarks are actually colore...
March 01, 2023 at 11:56
Deontological moral philosophy mandates compliance to a moral law, which is the same as there being a universal moral truth, that if one adheres to th...
February 28, 2023 at 13:17
That’s technically a logical inference, hence certainly not independent of human experience and judgement. Nevertheless, with this, you’re attributing...
February 28, 2023 at 02:02
Ok, close enough. There certainly are justified universal claims, but there are no justified universal claims independent of human intelligence. I mea...
February 27, 2023 at 14:06
That’s not what kills the definition. Independent of human understanding, in the original post’s wording, does. But I see you’ve added the qualifier l...
February 27, 2023 at 00:13
That’s fine, but with respect to Kant, from whence this exchange originated, metaphysics is a priori reasoning from principles, and the latter would a...
February 26, 2023 at 14:03
Dogmatic metaphysical views, and metaphysical views as an empirical science, are not supported. And the metaphysical view regarding pure speculative r...
February 26, 2023 at 00:34
I hate the taste of bullets.
February 25, 2023 at 18:30
It must be mistaken; it is self-contradictory. Twice. If it was completely separate from us, we wouldn’t see anything at all; Insofar as we do see, it...
February 25, 2023 at 11:28
Me: idealism not in its strictest sense….external material reality granted; You: strict idealism….external reality is material, denied. What’s the dif...
February 23, 2023 at 17:06
“…. In order to prevent any misunderstanding, it will be requisite, in the first place, to recapitulate, as clearly as possible, what our opinion is w...
February 23, 2023 at 12:27
Nope, hardly uncommon. Everybody’s got ‘em, maybe not so overtly….you know…contrarian.
February 22, 2023 at 02:16
Your prejudices are showing.
February 22, 2023 at 02:00
Two cents. Or in this case….. kronenthalers. Because the topic is an objector’s misunderstanding of a “Kantian demonstration”, and without an intrinsi...
February 21, 2023 at 19:10
I didn’t forget or ignore; just couldn’t come up with anything more to say. Been real, all the same. ‘Til next time…..
February 20, 2023 at 14:31
Logical thing to do, from their point of view, when fiddling with the ‘in here’ couldn’t be improved. I can….errr….‘see’ how that is likely true.
February 20, 2023 at 11:39
You know…the currently fashionable talk at the table. Linked herein some time ago by somebody. And, fortuitously enough, upon reconciliation of the am...
February 19, 2023 at 23:04
Dunno about “these people”, but lil’ ol’ me…..go back to that picture on pg 4. See that word “tree beside the object? At the same time, notice the fir...
February 19, 2023 at 13:52
The mechanics of any human sensory device makes the perceiving possible, being necessary but not sufficient for it, in accordance with their design al...
February 17, 2023 at 21:19
All that picture does is demonstrate the mechanics of human vision, from which the answer to that question is impossible, insofar as both forms of rea...
February 17, 2023 at 11:56
No? Then what is? And what of the notion that all thoughts are singular and succession, which implies any thought is itself a particular instance of i...
February 16, 2023 at 18:17
Fair, but doesn’t answer the question. The categorization of the particular according to an already held conceptual structure, isn’t the same as conce...
February 16, 2023 at 13:01
Useless trivia. Kant authored the precursor to currently accepted nebula dynamics. Theory of the Heavens, 1755.
February 16, 2023 at 00:40
Ok. So…best cast overall? Any favorite?
February 16, 2023 at 00:17
In keeping with the scenario, in which perception presents to the reasoning mind, it is then contradictory to deny the presentation, so we couldn’t sa...
February 16, 2023 at 00:10
Yeah, they weren’t that impressive. Best cast overall…..LOTR series? Not counting old westerns and war epics.
February 15, 2023 at 21:44
Many favorites is a contradiction. “A Few Good Men” for its content in general, the final courtroom scene in particular for the justification of it, a...
February 15, 2023 at 13:54
Outstanding critique. Well-thought, and asks pertinent questions, not all of which have answers. Before itemizing responses, lemme ask ya, when consid...
February 15, 2023 at 13:06
Dunno about that. Maybe it’s just me. Got this thing about pigeonholes, donchaknow.
February 14, 2023 at 22:49
I wanna be in the canonical column, strike the anglo tag, and continental column, strike the existential/phenomenological tag. Does that work?
February 14, 2023 at 22:31
Pretty good explanatory nutshell, right there.
February 14, 2023 at 12:08
In the sense that “house” includes glass, wood, metals, it does, yes. One cannot cognize without these antecedents, but one can have those antecedents...
February 13, 2023 at 15:32
I think it more the case we’ve been jumping around all over the place, initially talking about judgement in and of itself, whether it is false or dism...
February 12, 2023 at 14:48
Two different, unrelated things. ————— Starting five days ago, I said exactly the opposite. ————— Yeah, well….my true understanding of reality demands...
February 11, 2023 at 13:18
Oh my. A priori speculative metaphysics to a posteriori physical activity. And here we’ve switched from cognition of things, to that which can only be...
February 10, 2023 at 14:49
……exactly what I said, with which you were quick to disagree. ———— Never said it did. Just as relating is not relation, so too is the cause of a relat...
February 09, 2023 at 16:51