Argument: a series of reasons meant to persuade, usually in the form of a treatise or doctrine supporting an opening observation or logical premise. “...
That kind of thinking is where the notion of Cartesian theater, or the dreaded homunculus, comes from. The relation of conceptions just IS judgement. ...
Here you do, well enough. Here you do not. Agreed, but you’re in a different systemic time. In the time I used, re: “with respect to cognitions…”, whi...
If that is to be the case, it arises from a non-Kantian theory, insofar as conceptions are also representations, but with respect to their origin and ...
If everybody agrees the nature of human intelligence is representational, what would be used to examine the “inner nature” of representations? What se...
I wouldn’t accept that reason is a causal feeling. At bottom, thinking is the reasoning process, and we do not think our feelings. While thinking is a...
I think it more correct to say judgement depends on, or follows from, an instance of willing, but one is not the other. An instance of willing is the ...
On the first, agreed, that judgement being called discursive, that is, its objects, whether phenomena or mere ideas, are logically constructed in asso...
Judgement. All-important, hardly comprehensible. As in other things, the ancients didn’t attribute to judgement its due, while on the other hand, subs...
Outstanding synopsis, and thank you for it. I can actually follow all that, and even if I don’t quite agree with it, it makes its own kinda sense. I’d...
I recognize a few from my own opinion, as in….. ….abstract objects independent of human thought, is a contradiction; ….mathematical objects exist, tha...
Ok. What makes that form of realism Platonic? I’m sure it must have something to do with forms, but I’m not up on Plato’s theory enough to grant them ...
Looking at 74b, we can see the inkling of something new and different just beggin’ to be exposed. Socrates says stuff like…when we think……but leaves i...
As in all logical dialectics, the Argument from Imperfections would stand undiminished, if not subsequently diminished by better initial premises. The...
The problems of philosophy are reducible to the problem of reason: “….. These unavoidable problems of mere pure reason are God, freedom (of will), and...
Ehhh….I just found that cuz you asked. I don’t think any rational thinker is going to discriminate against Descartes’ philosophy because of his anatom...
At the conclusion of this paper: “….“Forget the pig is an animal. Treat him just like a machine in a factory. Schedule treatments like you would lubri...
Ahhhh….excellent. I gave you objections, you gave me letters. Tip of the pointy hat. I guess it is established Descartes did vivisections in the spiri...
I’d be careful here. Try finding that historical document, which is in truth the only way to glean from it some personal thought. As far as I have bee...
Be pretty hard wouldn’t it, when everything at university from which the disputes arose, was fundamentally predicated on what we now call classical ph...
Perhaps not so much discovered, in that you may already know of it, but I’m thinking Part V “Discourse on Method of Rightly Conducting….”, prior to th...
He denied reason and soul to animals, in “First Principles…..”, as distinguishing conditions. I find little support for the notion that animals were g...
My sentiments as well. The author of the SEP article on animal consciousness, re: “… It would be anachronistic to read ideas about consciousness from ...
Whoa! That’s Ken Kesey/ Merry Pransters kinda heavy, right there, insofar as both pro and con are in the same query: con…novelty isn’t in the object a...
And yet, all there ever is, with respect to quality, is aesthetic judgements. Which reduces to…..there’s no accounting for each other’s tastes. Which ...
Gotta admit to that myself. Band comes along, love their music for three or four albums….then they change style. For re-inventing, probably can’t top ...
“…. One likes to believe in the freedom of music But glittering prizes and endless compromises Shatter the illusion of integrity…” (Rush, Permanent Wa...
Admirable, to be sure. I submit, it is only the two world wars and the Holocaust that reformed our empathetic conditioning to its present state with r...
I think they were no more disconnected then we are, what with the present population endlessly fingering keyboards or joysticks on the one hand; on th...
Bottom line…it wasn’t to the participants, which were legion in those days. Lots of literature on the doing, but hardly any on objecting to the doing....
Ehhhh….animals were generally treated differently in those days, so it’s consistent they would think of them as medical experiments. I mean, nobody go...
Ok; all good…. ….except for that. He was pretty certain we commoners hadn’t a clue what he was talking about, even though he says every one of us is d...
You wouldn’t be alone. Maybe; dunno. Specific in what way? As I said in another thread… one division containing two books containing five chapters con...
Nobody cares about what might have happened, when they are only affected by what does. Correct. Not much need to deal with might-have-beens. Psycholog...
On logic….. “…. Notwithstanding, there lies so seductive a charm in the possession of a specious art like this (…) any attempt to employ it as an inst...
Of course, but these are not properties the lectern cannot have. They do not represent the properties the lectern must have such that to not have them...
Actually, it’s a demonstration of the different “categories of truth”, and how it is his “wish to distinguish them”, beginning at the bottom of pg176....
Yeah, I can see that. Change some terms here and there, but the basics would be pretty similar. Matter belongs to the object, form belongs to the subj...
Oh. Cool. Are you attempting to relate the traditional meanings to form/substance in Kant? Connect them somehow? See how an investigation of the one w...
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