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This is correct, to a point. You put your keys on the table; there is then the experience, so you know you put the keys on the table. You know it beca...

Pretty good philosophizing. That being said, I rather think the title might be better said as completion of Kant’s ethical approach, insofar as his mo...

One can think of noumena any way he sees fit, as long as he makes sense of it, if only to himself. Still, if originating in a specific domain, and con...

I have to be aware with respect to what I learn, but I can relax with respect to what I already know. And that from exactly this...... ....insofar as ...

Yeah, pitifully....for my knowledge, I have no choice but to trust an intrinsically circular explanatory system, the very one that tells me to never t...

For me, sheer interest. Nothing more or less. Simply put.....how do I know stuff. What explains how I know stuff. What is the knowing of stuff? Any fo...

Sure, one can start in the middle, as usually happens. Then what? Depends on what the objective is, I suppose.

Did it work?

HA!!!! Just like that, although any critique needs internal support consistent with it.

Even observations of how we think presupposes something, is reducible to something.

Critical.

And what underpins all of that? And everything else? Without exception?

Probably. Usually, some definition is subsequently undermined in order to justify that which didn’t belong to the original in the first place. All in ...

Perhaps they are. Beside the point, still, insofar as notions of rules merely presupposes them, and the discussion remains lopsided argument from exam...

Yep, but irrelevant. Most of the time I’m just as conventional as the next guy. I have to be, in order to get along with them. But in places such as t...

Ohfercrissakes......all this beating around the proverbial “rule” bush. Without ever once stating what a rule is, its origin, or its import...... .......

Ehhhhh.....Quine. Been there, done that, back when cars had fins and penny-loafers were exactly that, finding a near-perfect exhibition of apples (rep...

Grade? 1 - 10?

Philosophy via concept analysis. Always a good idea.

The thesis: ......rational constructs derived from the principles of universality and absolute necessity..... ......rational constructs that act as ex...

Yes. Was it supposed to be a wiki thing? That’s what came up.

With respect to what we’ve been talking about, yes. I can only converse within the limits of my knowledge and this world as I understand it. You didn’...

True enough, but at the expense of what we know. ———— You don’t consider actuality/determinism and possibility opposites? Is it not true that if a thi...

Wasn’t intending to be; just pointing out doctrinal and logical oppositions. ————— Sure I do, you’re correct. I just like to separate what can be imag...

Actualism > Determinism > “could have-ism” (possiblism). One of these is not like the others.

Agreed. In the case of Nixon, then, it is not true that if he had lost he wouldn’t have been disgraced. The fact of his disgrace is not determinable b...

I would say, no. I mean....he wasn’t disgraced because he won, which implies a meaning contained by the statement. Rather than meaningless, I’d say......

Thanks. I was sure you’d hepa brutha get his mind right.

Agreed. What I did could only have been what I did. That I could have done otherwise is completely irrelevant, with respect to what I actually did.

And he ends it..... “....From this we can draw two conclusions: (1) All motion or rest must be merely relative; neither can be absolute. That is, matt...

I was thinking about this, just before my internal shut-down kicked in.....did Leibniz actually call out monads as noumenal, or did Kant merely accuse...

The line 12” long could not have been a line 14” long. Add 2” to a 12” line there is a 14” line, but there is no longer a 12” line. Take this universe...

Never mind. I’m rather past the end of my day, so....more rambling than sensible.

Ok, fine!!! With/without equipment. For the benefit of those who wish logic and mathematics to be considered as tools.

Science cannot be done without tools, metaphysics cannot be done with tools.

Here’s a great big one: science needs something other than itself to prove; metaphysics contains its own proof. Science is never complete; metaphysics...

I’m sure you’re aware of Kant’s destruction of Leibnizian Monads. Seems he didn’t appreciate the idea of putting form before substance, and if that wa...

You mentioned wandering, so....

Hey!!! ‘Sup?

So....you cryin’ uncle? Tossin’ in the dialectical towel?

HA!!!! That’s why I changed it.

Ehhhh.....little challenge ain’t nothing to be afraid of.

Ya know...here we go again...I disfavor “mind” as well. Reason says all we need mind to say. Mind is a convention of speech; reason is what humans do....

Ahhhh.... thanks. I might be inclined to say the pure part of physics, rather than pure physics, but that might be taking unwarranted liberties with T...

Oh. That. Ya know....folks just need to get over this noumenal stuff. To a human, and as far as anything whatsoever concerning human intelligence, the...

I’m not sure I understand the question. What have I said he’s done, that he himself said couldn't be done? In a word, the setting is “transcendental l...

Yes. “World” is an object in general, comprised of and representing a multiplicity of other objects subsumed under it. All objects in general are obje...

He does? I don’t recall. Doesn’t seem quite right. “Pure” physics as a self-contained science is a misnomer, I think, at least without reference to a ...

Maybe under the auspices of something like phenomenology, but not in metaphysical doctrines before that. “World” is a singular conception, defined as ...

Hmmmm...not quite sure. If you’d said, “reunite the boundaries of thought to the boundaries of the world as we know it”, I would have agreed outright,...