Mww

FYI….the online Guyer/Wood has a fabulous 90-odd page translator introduction, also has standard pagination, but…..sadly….isn’t searchable. If some se...

Dunno about precise, but this contains the beginning notations referring to the words in your notes: “…. But thus Kant brings thinking into the percep...

And I’m not eccentric. I got the proper stamped, signed, coffee-stained release papers to prove it.

I’m hardly qualified to criticize the contributors to an encyclopedia. I can say, without equivocation, that entry doesn’t reflect any of my understan...

Guess that makes us a couple stubborn ol’ peas on either end of an overextended virtual pod, donnit?

I’ll own that. I looked at the logic, found it wanting, so tacitly disparage the logician positing the very thing I found wanting. And while I acknowl...

Yikes!!! Understanding. Faculty of. Faculty of thought; faculty of judgement; faculty of synthesis of conceptions; faculty of pure a priori cognitions...

I think this is a misunderstanding…..literally. Things that are known empirically is one thing; that there are necessary truths is quite another. It c...

Reference? Page number?

Heat is the motion of molecules…..as far as our experience informs us. Any empirical knowledge is contingent, therefore heat is necessarily the motion...

…..and in the talking about, is the very containment of epistemological within metaphysical statements he denies. ….which is a metaphysical statement ...

Agreed. Which returns to I think a major bone of contention in Kripke’s thesis, with respect to classes of statements of knowledge and of metaphysics,...

Ok. Thanks.

What do you make of this, pg 177-8: “One could not say that though in fact every even number is the sum of two primes, there could not have been some ...

For a thermometer, or some sort of mechanical probe, seems so. For the human skin, its sensation is of more or less heat, or heat or no heat, temperat...

Pass. MU’s mindset is closer to mine than Kripke’s. Still, Kripke does say he’s not considering the ontological side of existences in possible worlds....

Ahhh…another one of the cool kids. Best I could do was a Beavis and Butthead reference.

Sorry, Frank. Dunno what that means. I’m a virgoyankeebabyboomer with no sense of humor.

Oooo…always wanted to be in a unit.

Not particularly. I’ll just do my own thing, try to keep up.

I’m not even going to ask how you did that. Must suck to have to stop and teach the preliminaries before you can get to what you want to talk about.

My fault; I’m not up on the subtleties. I mean….what’s the point in having identity, giving it absolute power as an irreducible necessity, then say it...

Cool. Interesting. Thanks. ———— Question: why drop out the part known to be true? Say there is a law. To remove something that makes it a law, is it l...

It is now, after the discovery of it. That water boils at 100C is known a priori only by those after having immediate experience, re: those that test ...

Whole bunch of caveats before this is Mww’s view, first being, even assuming linguistic liberties in the original, no statement in itself is ever nece...

Yeah, I feel ya, bruh. When I see “?F(Fx ? Fy) ? x=y.” my eyes just sorta glaze over, mind goes blank, reason goes…..say what????

At its initial inception, and the ground of all others, A = A is one of Aristotle’s three logical laws of rational thought, this particular one found ...

What if we are given one proposition, and its negation? Does it matter which, if there can be only one? The analycity resides in the relation of the c...

If you want to use logical shorthand, we have P = V, H = V, therefore P = H. Regardless, there was a time when it was a fact this thing in the sky was...

Explained in the rest of what I said, maybe? Note the CPR quote references universality with respect to empirical judgements, where I referenced neces...

It’s is an empirical fact Phosporus is Venus, and, it is an empirical fact Hesperus is Venus. It is therefore an analytical cognition, hence necessari...

There is a serious caveat here, in that for Kant, when he speaks of the a priori he means pure a priori, meaning having nothing to do with any experie...

Metaphysical terms needs an edit.

Would you agree a justification for something, is obtained by a judgement on that something? That justification is a derivative of the act of judging,...

I covered that, and probably best to leave it at the same kind of thing.

Has nothing to do with it’s meaning; only with juxtaposition. If Kant can justify the one, then it is reasonable to suppose Kripke should be able to j...

Ehhhh…..as Kripke says, guy writes a book on something, another guy writes a book on how wrong the first guy was. Been that way since Day One. You and...

Kantian transcendental idealism, not needing any inverted commas, is predicate on the possibility of synthetic a priori relations, and cannot stand wi...

“…. Now it may be taken as a safe and useful warning, that general logic, considered as an organon, must always be a logic of illusion, that is, be di...

You GOT to be kidding me. If a guy doesn’t know whether or not 2 is a number, how would he know what the list of numbers looks like? So, what….he know...

Ok, thanks. I’m good with Banno might have put on a green shirt this morning. I’m aware of the logical entailment that in some possible world he did, ...

Why would we do that? ————- Got it. Thanks.

I don’t think what’s now called modal reasoning is all that contrary to Kant, but more a unnecessary extrapolation of it. Or, to be gentle about it, a...

Known a posteriori in this world. Empirical knowledge obtained in a given world cannot translate to empirical knowledge in some possible world without...

Agreed. If he exists at all, in whichever of the possible worlds he exists in, that world must be necessary.

For instance? Quick and easy and to the point, please.

Oh. Language philosophy. Hard pass. I speak, you listen. You speak, I listen. Figure out whatever differences there might be. End language philosophy ...

You’ve linked to trope theory and Cartesian theater. Which of these is the essay?

Then I am left to judge myself by that which changes, which makes explicit I cannot know myself as a singular self, insofar as my self must change as ...

I am this, my properties change, therefore the this I remain is not my properties. I am an individual, but I don’t need an essence. I am not my proper...