Ehhhh....suffice it to say there are differences in modeling perspectives. One perspective is mere convention....we model a cup because we already kno...
No he wouldn’t, because science hasn’t, nor will any science done by humans, ever have the means for it. Nahhhh.....crotchety ol’ Prussian would more ...
Cool. Neither am I. No, just a restriction on the concept of phenomena itself. A limitation on their function, if you will. Which reduces to mere opin...
Sorta like that, I guess. I only brought up myself, or any self of like kind, because to treat these as both subject and object, is demonstrably impos...
Philosophy can’t be said to go wrong, but to answer the question......by Brentano, 1874,1889, turning it into a psychological doctrine describing diff...
Perhaps the most difficult exposition to fathom in transcendental metaphysics,....a speculative idealism if there ever was one.....is how I, as thinki...
As one of the ol’ muppet dudes on the balcony says to the other.....BRILLIANT!!! Or.....how to take the pristine condition of human reason, and turn i...
‘Tis a lonely journey, methinks. It’s like....why even think of owning a Model T when there is an e-Ferrari. Doesn’t matter you can’t afford to buy on...
“.....Instead what answer we get depends on the question we put...” (Physicist, 1983) “...approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving informat...
I detest the taste of Lima beans, and if you like the taste....how can the exact same matter have one quality for me and a completely different qualit...
Yeah, I feel ya, bud. But then, ol’ Freddie didn’t like anybody except maybe his sister, so one more rip on his peers doesn’t mean a whole lot. A chan...
Ehhhh....when all is said and done, noumena are best left unlit. They’re an intellectual anomaly, confusing more than enlightening. To classify someth...
My point was I found specific references which tend to counterpoint the Schopenhaur quote. But then, I couldn’t find the quote, so context is missing,...
“....If, by the term noumenon, we understand a thing so far as it is not an object of our sensuous intuition, thus making abstraction of our mode of i...
Footnote 18: “....Some philosophers enjoy arguing about how best to characterize the relation between a statue and the lump of bronze of which it is m...
“....Matter is essentially dynamic, essentially temporal, essentially changeful. Objects (or matter) can’t be conceptualized as things whose existence...
Steelmanning or otherwise, without granting....understood a priori as given.....the intrinsic duality of human nature, no defense of any version of id...
I’m perceiving something, or, I’m not perceiving something. Something is present to my senses, or it isn’t. The negations, I perceive what isn’t there...
....to affect my senses. ‘Nuff said. The law of identity, being a human construct, has Nature as its justification, so is upheld merely from lack of c...
The second person commits a hasty generalization fallacy, secundum quid, commonly called “converse accident”, in making a overly broad conclusion give...
That the “matter” of the thing that just broke my finger is a “hammer” is indeed mere possibility, but it remains that a material thing broke my finge...
In a way, it is confusing, insofar as it is empirically undeterminable, in that sensing is an active capacity of which we are quite conscious, but of ...
Your position presupposes matter, mine presupposes the possibility of matter. You’re talking about matter as if its already given, I’m talking about h...
We add conceptions to the representations in the naming of them, sure...red, loud, rough, etc., a veritable plethora, but I’m not sure we add color, s...
No, it isn’t, nor does it need to be. It is a general, albeit necessary, condition of objects met with unaided human perception. To be extended does n...
Ahhhh, mon amie....I submit we don’t do anything to objects, but only to their representations. Objects do things to us, by the affect they have on ou...
Not sure why we would need to individuate objects when they individuate themselves and we merely recognize the differences. I mean....it’s logically p...
I can dig Rene’s res extensa and res cogitans as absolute presuppositions. Opposing ends of a methodological duality, natural on one, intellectual on ...
Hmmmm. Brentano 1874 is certainly pre-1905. Sartre, 1943...oops...too late. Husserl 1900....cuttin’ it close there. To be honest, I haven’t spent a lo...
I don’t think we could say anything at all about space and time, a priori or otherwise, without the relation of which they are part. It has been said ...
Do you see....or is it just me seeing.... a problem with logical efficacy in saying matter is presupposed by space and time, in juxtaposition to matte...
I think to reduce further: the principle property of matter, is simple extension, the one thing impossible to abstract from matter, and still have mat...
In manifest experience? Not a chance, metaphysically speaking, considering that experience is of stuff, and considering that for humans at least, spac...
Agreed. Still, the thread title stipulates the metaphysics of materialism, and as you say, given the constraints, I think your space and time are the ...
Not I. I’m still waiting on some rendition of the metaphysics of it. I don’t think “underlying basic assumptions”, being merely suppositions, count as...
That’s fine. It’s your thread, you can do with it as you please. But you referenced Collingwood, so it hardly seems fair to call something an AP that ...
You say you’re enumerating, meaning to list or itemize, absolute presuppositions, re: RGC, by listing propositions, but according to RGC..... “...Prop...
Page the second..... Careful here, not to conflate reason the human condition, with reason the cognitive faculty. In the first sense, there is nothing...
Page, the first: True enough, hence speculative metaphysics. It doesn’t matter that the rules for how understanding works are known with certainty or ...
I understand we can’t remove what’s already there deep within the sensing system. I understand all objects are completely unknown with respect to the ...
Outbound on our first post-covid seasonal road trip. We got to where we were going, so assuming you’re still interested..... Yes we do have a way of t...
Ok, that’s fine, if you like. I hold that objects are material substance with extension in space and duration in time. With that, objects cannot be cr...
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