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I see what you’re saying, but I find it rather inefficient. According to the Old Guys, each perception generates only its own phenomenon, so a range o...
July 31, 2022 at 15:30
Special Relativity...a physical relation of the Universe to us....does not need words. To think about Special Relativity and form his theory thereof, ...
July 31, 2022 at 12:52
(grain of sand/beach) (Grain of sand/this beach) (Grain of sand/not this beach) (Grain of sand/beach; this beach; not this beach; any beach; all beach...
July 31, 2022 at 10:54
True enough, but is it not therefore logical, and rational, to claim that thinking about anything except words, would not need them? While it is true ...
July 31, 2022 at 00:01
Ahhh, yes, thanks. Both my guess that’s what you meant, and my assertion observational statements are not what Kant is “splitting” between analytic an...
July 30, 2022 at 20:01
Yeah....I don’t know what an observational sentence would be, except maybe sentences regarding observations. I hope it’s not that, because that has no...
July 30, 2022 at 17:03
Observational sentence?
July 30, 2022 at 12:51
The solution looks like some form of transcendental idealism, insofar as it uses, rather than disregards, an intrinsic logical dualism in the human in...
July 28, 2022 at 17:47
Mighten it be a fundamental misconception, to attribute to “appearance” the notion of “looks like” as opposed to the notion of “makes present to”? If ...
July 28, 2022 at 15:24
Sure. Mathematics comes to mind.
July 27, 2022 at 16:47
My major premise, the fundamental ground of my argument. I shall call that a win, and issue an exuberant....and wholeheartedly honest....thank you. I ...
July 26, 2022 at 11:44
“....we are not entitled to maintain that sensibility is the only possible mode of intuition....” Now that’s only a premise in the transcendental argu...
July 25, 2022 at 11:45
In my view..... ......it is preposterous, bordering on the catastrophically absurd, that the totality of that of which I am aware, re: the entirely of...
July 25, 2022 at 11:00
Everyone has a box with something in it.....major premise; The something is a beetle....minor premise; The box might be empty....minor premise. Conclu...
July 24, 2022 at 14:08
But the major is not an either/or propositional dichotomy. Everyone has a box with something in it, so the box that one has, has something in it. The ...
July 24, 2022 at 13:38
Ahhhhh...so Erwin plagiarized Ludwig. Bet they weren’t best of friends.
July 24, 2022 at 13:28
Yeah.....about that.... “.....Suppose everyone had a box with something in it.... “.....the box might even be empty...” In what sense, given a box, ca...
July 24, 2022 at 13:21
I suppose. I really don’t have a trust-with-my-life kinda thing for this question. I’m stuck between what appears to be the intrusion of anti-narrativ...
July 24, 2022 at 13:02
Best guess: pick somebody, ask ‘em. “Meant by” is always a subjective judgement, so.....be ready.
July 23, 2022 at 22:56
HA!!!! It’s only 51 pages. You haven’t found a definition in there anywhere? What ever happened to due diligence, huh??? Kidding.
July 23, 2022 at 22:37
Mouse running behind a tree....wordless image....united schematicized conceptions......simple thought. “Mouse running behind a tree”....construction o...
July 23, 2022 at 22:33
CPR is all language representing Kant’s thoughts, so no, I cannot think Kant’s thoughts. But I can, and have, represent(ed) Kant’s words, thus indirec...
July 23, 2022 at 13:41
“....That there may be inhabitants in the moon, although no one has ever observed them, must certainly be admitted; but this assertion means only, tha...
July 23, 2022 at 12:06
Ehhhh.....nobody. Me being flippant. ————- 3B neurotransmitter connections per mm3 at somewhere around the SOL....brain can handle just about anything...
July 22, 2022 at 11:19
You must mean one’s thoughts cannot be understood by another except as they are expressed in language. What else it could be is precisely what it is. ...
July 21, 2022 at 10:54
The only way to study anything at all, is to represent it as a phenomenon if it’s a real object, or as a conception if it’s an abstract object. But th...
July 21, 2022 at 01:07
Truth be told, I must admit to only being able to articulate someone else’s model. I ain’t nowhere’s near smart enough to come up with a decent, origi...
July 20, 2022 at 21:32
Hey..... Yeah, I read the paper, happy with it, good for some to hang his hat on, but, I’m good with what I know. Thing is....mind is just a catch-all...
July 20, 2022 at 19:47
True, it doesn’t. But external states are absolutely necessary for the representations (empirical) cognition does act upon. Activity herein being inte...
July 20, 2022 at 14:15
To study the mind presupposes it. So.....if mind is the unconditioned relative to human cognitive systems, what is there that can presuppose? To posit...
July 20, 2022 at 12:12
Nice. ————- The answer is in the paper. Simply put: we don’t.
July 20, 2022 at 10:33
Interesting paper. Between you and I get all kinds of nifty stuff to rock my epistemic water vessel, so sincere thanks for it. “.....and he did not se...
July 19, 2022 at 19:08
“....A Markov blanket comprises a set of states that renders states internal to the blanket conditionally independent of external states....” (Friston...
July 19, 2022 at 12:53
Granted. But you did say neither one nor the other of the two possible explanatory methodologies, was going on, with respect to a single given occasio...
July 19, 2022 at 11:53
.....yet it appears to me that you responded with logically consistent intelligibility. I have no choice but to seriously admire that response, arisin...
July 18, 2022 at 19:42
If I may, from the back row, hitherto being a silent witness: In general: Your theoretics are fine, and more than likely, close to that which is the c...
July 18, 2022 at 13:12
As in Nicomachean Ethics, Bk. VI, or, Prior Analytics.....yes, though maintained pretty much intact through the Enlightenment, now woefully absent as ...
July 18, 2022 at 11:12
It would seem to be true, but only in relation to an intrinsically dualistic human cognitive system. But whether the basic human cognitive system is i...
July 17, 2022 at 13:02
“Anything that exists” is a latent presupposition. Attributing sufficient warrant to this presupposition, “determinate” is a valid inference, insofar ...
July 17, 2022 at 11:41
Ok, fine. It was quoted verbatim, but before my feet get held even closer to the torturous fire, I must admit the original context is in regard to the...
July 08, 2022 at 23:33
All good. It would be counterproductive, I think, to get into the subtleties of Kantian metaphysics. That being said, the aforementioned contradiction...
July 08, 2022 at 19:34
Is there any way at all, to reconcile the glaring contradiction in that statement? I wanted to bring this up the other day, but thought better of it, ...
July 08, 2022 at 11:15
That got a chuckle outta me, I must say. And you know me.....everything philosophical worth repeating originated in Königsberg. Agreed, in principle. ...
July 08, 2022 at 11:01
Yeah...I said the links were interesting, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I agree the implications contained in them are all that meaningful. “To s...
July 07, 2022 at 12:07
Interesting links; now I understand what you meant by emerging.
July 07, 2022 at 01:48
Ok. Thanks again.
July 06, 2022 at 19:50
As in....reinventing them so they can be known? Then they wouldn’t be Kant’s noumena, then, right? So it isn’t so much reinventing as re-defining. Whi...
July 06, 2022 at 17:44
For my sake....what is scientific idealism? Single sentence kinda thing?
July 06, 2022 at 15:21
Not that big’a deal; support for your..... ....is all. In addition to what you’ve been saying, Hoffman says, “space, time, causality are fictions........
July 06, 2022 at 11:53
In the wiki reference, there’s a citation, #9. Did you investigate? If not, check out the 40 minute mark, and thereafter.
July 06, 2022 at 11:08