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I like it. From an earlier idealist philosopher, but still….

This answers the question in my first response, whether the statement is a rule or a law. Now that it is given as a rule, we are met with the appearan...

The proof….not merely the assumption of a conditional truth….for the existence of physical things relative to human perception, preceded you by about ...

Does this not beg the question…..is the statement formulated in accordance with the apodeictic principles of law, or the merely hypothetical principle...

Well said.

Yes, in order for my thinking to work, reason must be presupposed as a functional condition of the human intellect. Problem is, even given something a...

Personally, I would attribute to reason the process, from which “mind” is one product of it.

I think mind is a conception, an abstract metaphysical representation based on the idea of complementary pairs.

What purpose can there be for anything, that isn’t reducible to the purpose of that intelligence from which it is given? If it is said the purpose of ...

Nonsense. You said it yourself, no one can even help you. Given the thread topic, you’re equivocating the denial of help, with the impossibility of it...

I’m not at war. Not even conflicted. Sorry if you are; can’t help ya.

Dunno about all that. With respect to the transcendental ego, it is irrelevant anyway, for whatever that may be, in whatever form it may manifest, it ...

Absolutely, and from which follows necessarily, it must be done alone.

Is yours a private hill, or would you mind a visitor? No pets, no bad habits, just me, a real human with real human attributes….however well-seasoned ...

I’d agree if categorical morality was a thing. But it isn’t; it is only a doctrine describing the justifications for the possibility for a thing. It i...

I certainly didn’t mean to describe situational morality; not even sure what that is. I’m just saying that even though that which is doctrinized must ...

If a moral agent conditioned by deontological predicates doesn’t intent to be obligated by them, he is logically self-contradictory with regard to rea...

One might say categorical morality depends on intentions, iff the agency in possession of an autonomous, self-determinant will, respects, without exce...

All good, except…. ….I think “observed” is out-of-place here. The listed pagination concerns the analytic of logical functions, not the aesthetic of e...

Can’t argue with any of that. Except that absent any percipients thing; you seem alright with it, so I’ll leave it be. I know what you mean.

“….if the critique has not erred in teaching that the object should be taken in a twofold meaning, namely as appearance or as thing in itself…” (Bxxvi...

Years ago, I found it much more advantageous to shy away from the A edition. Read it for context, but not study it for comprehension. I mean…there’s a...

I saw that, and the first thing that came to my mind was, to say the same thing….I’ll have to think about it. Probably not what you meant, but, consid...

As is your prerogative, being the thread host. I agree with the topical question….where’s the mystery….albeit for very different reasons apparently. P...

To what else could first-person perspective belong? ————- I don’t find a contradiction; a self-consistent definition of self isn’t within the purview ...

First-person is a euphemism for self, indeed a point of view; properties belong to objects, the self can never be an object, hence properties cannot b...

The subject that thinks, is very different from the subject that describes thinking. Even myself, should I describe my thoughts, necessarily incorpora...

The more things change the more they stay the same, re: translator’s intro, “…. how precarious Court favour then was….”, in juxtaposition to today’s W...

Not sure how to take it, but….thanks?

The Duke's influence on Kant doesn’t have much exposure, assuming there was any, but what you wrote sounds a lot like some of the foundational aspects...

One of the biggest gripes of philosophers is that folks like to cherry-pick what they write. I admit to it in this case, but I also found a reason: as...

250 years ago, Aristotelian logic ruled academia, from 1770 Kant held the chair of metaphysics and logic at U. of K., so could hardly dispense with it...

What is an intuition? Empirically, it is the synthesis of the matter of a given appearance, with a form, the representation of which, is phenomenon. “...

“…find the sum…” is the something reason directs understanding to do, in the synthesis of given conceptions; what the sum is requires intuition, becau...

Careful what you ask for. I don’t have a problem with the Prolegomena because I don’t consider it the relevant text for the current discussion. 300 ye...

Cool. I figured, but confirmation is always best.

Need the year of publication, for whatever text you’re saying has Groundwork in its title. The Groundwork I’m familiar with is a treatise on moral phi...

As you say, there are no synthetic a priori judgements, but as Kant says, that logical construct (proposition, judgement), in which the conceptions ha...

I said irrespective, not independent. It is impossible to even think, judge, cognize, reason…any of that stuff, independently of conceptual content. E...

Since the ancients that has been the case. It just makes sense that two straight lines cannot enclose a space but no one ever thought about the ration...

There is a theoretical argument in which parts of the cognitive method, under certain conditions, as means to certain ends, is deductive, but the subj...

Getting complicated, methinks. Logic talked about is in propositions; logic used in a cognitive method is in judgements, and the first presupposes the...

Ok. Thanks.

Hmmm. Good question. Insofar as logic regards only what we think, maybe logical contradiction has to do with the relation of conceptions to each other...

That, and the stronger version, that of which the negation is impossible. Neither of these can refer to things we know, however. There can be no apode...

Nope; got nothing to do with the text. By asking what you mean “object” to represent prevents me from prematurely mis-judging your use of it solely fr...

Conventionally speaking, true enough. But what of those inferences we seek, regarding the nature of something for which we wish to obtain apodeictic c...

And yet I find no reference to Kant’s treatment of what you call the “object”, thus no indication of the ground for peer-reviewed dispute. The cause o...

Many objections, sure. What is to be understood by “object”? And what is it we do by which the “object” is a product? “….an object is that, in the con...

“…..For there are so many groundless pretensions to the enlargement of our knowledge by pure reason that we must take it as a general rule to be mistr...