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….is just to be a bad teacher.

I’ve had a dozen occupations, both professional and incidental, yet I’m still just lil’ ol’ me. Can the interest which makes one good at something, an...

Ain’t that the truth. Especially since mind is itself merely a conceptual placeholder for whatever’s going on upstairs. Gotta call it something, right...

Can’t be the act of; it is only that to which the unity of all our representations belong, such that it is then possible for them all to be my represe...

I) works just fine: “… But the conjunction of representations into a conception is not to be found in objects themselves, nor can it be, as it were, b...

Ok, but I take exception to compound conceptions. I know what is meant by it, but I think it a misunderstanding. Some thing, with a set of properties ...

Yeah, well, you know: horse, water. Smart horse drinks, stubborn horse won’t unless it’s chilled Perrier.

Outstanding.

To have a practical way of interacting with the world, I should think it might help to know something about it, which we trust science to provide. As ...

Yeah, even stating what a fiction might be, is fraught with ambiguity. I just figure a non-fiction is that for which denying the object of it hurts me...

Philosophy in the form of speculative metaphysics is fiction, if by fiction is meant the impossibility of strict empirical proofs for its conditions. ...

That there are things to be known, is given; how the things are to be known, is determined.

You wish.

“Banno” the singular linguistic object, was a sensation; the manifold of linguistic objects related to “Banno” the singular object, were sensations. O...

Yep. But be careful; I hear Gene and the guys are particularly defensive regarding their brand.

Anachronistic might be the word you’re looking for. I get that a lot. I don’t mind. So here we are, two mutually indestructible foolish dialecticians....

Occam’s Razor: the principle that says the fewer ways there are to make a mistake, the easier it is to correct it. I’d accept that principle.

That right there is a Gem if ever there was one. Like…what makes this a block of wood? Why, because it’s a block and it’s made of wood. DUH!!! Opps. T...

As I mentioned, depends on one’s definition which depends on one’s doctrine in play. Mine in play doesn’t consider “attempts to get folks to agree”. W...

Yes, the quality used when necessity doesn’t have the authority. Metaphysically speaking, the cognition of this sip cannot be understood as coffee unl...

Is precisely what I’m NOT doing. The smell of coffee is that by which an experience OF a thing is concluded, in the case of first instance of it, or, ...

Oh, but I can, and I’m justified in doing so, if the point to make was the valid notion of differences in experiences relative to differences in the o...

I can perceive a sports car that appears blood-red in color. What’s the point again? A transcendental argument is merely an illegitimate logical const...

Impeccable timing?

The smell of coffee is nothing but a sensation that belongs to a certain thing, experienced as the thing it is conceived to be. This thing being sippe...

How could it, if I call it the same drink? And conversely, if I have different experiences, how could I say such experiences are of the same drink? ——...

Yeah, maybe me too. I didn’t mean, and I didn’t take you to mean either, by one-to-one correspondence that for each sensation there is only one networ...

To deny the correspondence is to deny the brain as the singular source of all mental activities. Flawed insofar as to merely affirm the correspondence...

Thanks….made my day. The rest of it…..ehhh, anti-climatic.

We talk about this, we talk about that. We talk about all sorts of stuff, some of it eccentrically. Which is just another word for irrationally. What ...

Yes, we do. We also talk about swimming like fish, flying like birds, going to the ends of the Earth. Eccentrically indeed. ———— Yep, sure is. All tho...

Yes, obviously you and I treat sensations differently, and no, it is not possible to reconcile the contradiction intrinsic to those differences. You a...

‘S ok; I like it here.

Without a thorough study of Enlightenment speculative metaphysics, there’s no reason you should, and for the oversight, you are hereby forgiven. (Grin...

Dualism. Human nature. The system, in its proper modus operandi, is knowledge. That’s what reason is for. With respect to objects, then, sensation has...

Ok, thanks. While I agree sensation is ineffable, I cannot isolate ineffability from sensation with your description here. If one of the meanings of s...

I agree sensations are entirely ineffable. As are feelings, and for much the same reasons. But if you’re right, what is it about objects that can elic...

Ok then.

I wish to cross-reference. If I can’t do that, because I can’t get what I need for it, I’ll stick with what I know. Destructive because, as far as I k...

I perused the thread, read some of your links. I wasn’t aware of the refutation of conservation laws, as the links stated. As far as I’m concerned, en...

Yes. Your translator’s reading doesn’t match any of the four of mine. It’s a technicality for sure, but in a system built on them, such ambiguity is e...

Whose translation is this?

I usually take “construct” to imply intentionality, and no sub-conscious faculty can be imbued with it. Perhaps it is that construct isn’t so much the...

No, not must. That’s a empirical knowledge claim to which I’m not entitled. If to sense is to form an opinion, then I admit to that. Investigation. Of...

Construct to some extent, yes. Two images to compare, no. The construct to some extend you’re referring to, in the case of perceiving an unfamiliar, i...

…..agreed, I don’t recall to mind the exact image I just saw written, because I’m not familiar with it, so no I don’t think that’s what I’m doing. I h...

Ok, thanks. It is absolutely fascinating, that it seems as though I myself….the entire sum of entitlement…. think in images, when in fact, there could...

Thanks for the interest, and please note my mere opinion on the matter. I dunno….just seemed to smack of anthropomorphism. First to say lesser animals...

Never mind; too overly-analytical of me.

What is your opinion on the validity, and/or manifestation, of mental imagery?