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A worthy exposition of the issue, I must say. The solution….of a sort…..must await the “transcendental unity of apperception” for its sufficient analy...

Absolutely, and when he says… “…. And as the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences, so the only solid foundation we can g...

“….We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but it is in vain to ask, Whether there be body or not? That is a point...

Cool. Important historical figures, yes.

You’re agreeing with Hume’s philosophy on human understanding, then?

It did in 1738. ……but it's what we have. It’s what we had. Nothing against Hume, he “…. perhaps the ablest and most ingenious of all sceptical philoso...

I think it’s pretty much spot on. Less complex version than mine on pg 2.

Yeah, well, you know....times for fun, times for serious, a la Andy Rooney.

Oh, Easy as that? Who’da thunk it. How come it’s never been done, then? Didn’t think ideas could be undermined. The objects of ideas, maybe, but.....o...

Quite right. How does an idea become undermined?

Ok, fine. I thought about it for awhile, but I can’t come up with a clever comeback for your clever comeback.

From your first “here”.... “....if you do it correctly, you will always get the same answer no matter which coordinates you use....” .....and from Ein...

Everybody’s entitled to disagree as they see fit.

No need to explain. I hold with most of your position in real/reality philosophy, reject any position calling for those silly marks bracketing those w...

True enough, but couldn’t that be conditioned by natural evolution? Again, true enough, but that kind of intelligence isn’t human, nor could it be, an...

If this is true, it is impossible to explain how it is that there are commonalities in every human’s understanding of reality. No human ever, in any c...

Agreed. Hence, the non-reciprocity I brought up way back. Reality is the real, but the real is not necessarily reality. Carry on, then?

Very well. But then, do you not have to resolve the logical dilemma of material things connected with a immediate and necessary causality, but itches,...

Bees don’t bite. Just wondering whether the itch you had...assuming you admit to it....was real. And if it was, would it at the same time, be a member...

‘Tis a veritable playground here, aye. Seriously. Ever had an itch?

The first goes a long way in supporting the second, I’ll wager.

That neither of you highlighted me I understand indicates mutual non-solicitation of a response, but some of this is getting out of hand. You guys are...

That every change is a succession in time is true. An instance of this change is a truth linked to a fact; any instance of any given change is a truth...

Yes. It is true objective reality is not a question of fact. No. The truth value of a proposition is not sufficient for proof of existence. Truth valu...

Morality. All of them.

OK. Standard rational methodology: hypothesis, reason, conclusion. Non-standard rational methodology. Or, which is the same thing, standard irrational...

Yep. Keyword....real. All I was going for all along. Technically, all it’s supposed to do is explain how the present didn’t get there all by itself. I...

Ok. “...is red” functions as a predicate in a proposition, then. The function of a predicate is to describe the subject to which it belongs, such that...

As in....infinities with respect to mathematicians, and universals to philosophers? Can we say that which refers to every single thing of a kind is no...

Understood, thanks. Some aid in distinguishing the real from reality, then? As my ol’ buddy Janis Joplin once said....”of great social and political i...

Yeah, my bad. I was speaking from an ontological perspective (reality is....), you were speaking from an epistemological perspective, (making sense by...

I don’t understand. If there is a discussion, there must be something to discuss. The presupposition is the necessary conceivability of the object of ...

Yeah, that, or, we don’t bother with them in the first place. The senses govern our lives, right?

Agreed. Discussion of anything presupposes its being real or possibly real enough to discuss. But then...what does it mean to discuss, and the dance c...

Agreed. Reality is that which corresponds to a sensation in general; and that, consequently, the conception of which indicates a real being in time, t...

That’s what’s so interesting about it. Can go wherever one wishes to take it, then figure out whether it conforms to the conditions you presented, and...

Ahhhh...ok, that’s better. Still, to attack a fact/pawn with reason/bishop, an awful lot of antecedent conditions must have already been aligned. The ...

That was kinda fun. This says a queen’s defense, but there’s no defender named “rationality”. What’s defending the queen, sufficient for eliminating p...

Hey.....always lookin’ for a different way of lookin’. And no, I didn’t send tickets to his favorite Vegas show to post that comment.

If you’re doing philosophy, you are thinking for yourself. No need to defend it. If you’re speaking from exegesis, as I readily admit for myself, you’...

Knowing my denkweise as you do, what do they offer that might interest me? Or....what about them interests you?

Yeah, but after 3000-odd years, the corpus of philosophy texts is so vast, it’s really hard to do philosophy that hasn’t already been done. Have you c...

HA!! I feel ya. We’re still breathing, so we don’t qualify as OLD guys.

Ok, thanks. FYI....in case you didn’t already know, and not that it matters....doctrines other than British Enlightenment empiricism start from that v...

Just curious. Where did you get the idea for doing this?

Agreed. How could it? Anthropomorphism on one hand, transcendental illusion on the other, both catastrophic no-no’s in their own way. The former attri...

I’m aware, and you’re correct in it. I, and indeed as well I think, are arguing from a purely metaphysical position, involving a person, and by associ...

What substance can have both attributes?

But not at the same time, in the same subject, complete and proper rationality being given. There is the thesis that certainty grounds truth from the ...

Descartes said the same thing initially, but qualified it because we have no knowledge of God’s attributes and attributes are that by which substance ...