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On Kant’s response to Hume. Dogmatic slumbers, and such Prussian colloquialisms..... “....The celebrated Locke, for want of due reflection on these po...

Grant, for the moment, that the notion of the a priori base intuitions space and time is the case for the way we see and apprehend things, which is, a...

Just wonderin’.....if a base a priori intuition informs unavoidably, how might it be altered? Wouldn’t experiential consistency be questionable?

Yes he was, but no, he did not, at least in one sense of “absolute”, that being irreducible physical reality..... “...Time and space are, therefore, t...

How about.....derivative of the intuitive and cognitive foundation that belongs to us. If not, yours works.

Well said in the first, my sentiments also, in the second. Although, the beginning might be in Descartes, Kant then being the standard by which all ot...

Awww, shucks Mr. Bill. Y’all just too damn smart for me. I bow to your superior intellect, and hereby remove myself from further embarrassment.

Yep. So? Yep. Logically. Yep. Your brand of knowledge anyway. No apologies.

Yeah, true enough. Funny thing about human reason, the ability to come up with fantastic stuff on the one hand, then turn right around and confuse its...

......which disappears as soon as the limitations of it are realized. A central metaphysical idea. .....serves no purpose, as opposed to making up ans...

These two assertions do not have the same truth value. A central metaphysical idea must only and always have ties to philosophy, and whether or not it...

So....not a fan of abstract reasoning, huh? Science is the best way to do philosophy kinda guy? You must be aware that our primary interests reside in...

Yeah, true enough. As long as transcendental philosophy fails, so too will the transcendental ego.

Yes. Reasoning is what the human intellect seems to do, by its very nature, pursuant to brain machinations. Language, or objective signage in general,...

Is it the specific wording in the quote, that makes Descartes not important enough to include with the others? Descartes was the first in modern, re: ...

Neither a proper maxim nor an example of a Kantian universal law.

Oh. Well, alrighty then. Carry on, by all means.

Software? Hardware? Pre-existing in the brain? Why are these, with their modern scientific predicates, contained in a treatise under the title of Kant...

Not yet, but that’s beside the point of whether or not they are certain enough to explain the natural causes and effects in the universe. Could be, bu...

There are no sensations in dreams. I’ve dreamt of frying bacon, but never when so engaged, have I experienced the smell it frying. Just as I like to k...

If instinct is fixed, but ability and knowledge are contingent, thus not fixed, I wouldn’t lump them all under intelligence. All distinct aspects of t...

No. I’m talking about objects of intuition belonging to conceptions of gods, but you’re talking about objects intuited as belonging to gods as existin...

Yes, but that’s not the only way of conceiving. Conceptions arise from understanding conditioned by sensibility, but they also can arise from understa...

I’ll grant innate abilities, which is just a euphemism for instinct. Knowledge of how to learn? Again....merely an innate ability, a typical condition...

Probably better not to confuse the abilities of one faculty with the abilities of another. Pretty soon we’ll have steering wheels that dig holes in th...

Ok, but are we just as certain they did? ————- No. Understanding conceives; the senses perceive. ———— And yet pure reason is the only possible source ...

Does the theory of evolution distinguish between innate knowledge and mere instinct? ————- I watched a NOVA show on ”slime molds”, in which a planaria...

Yeah, I noticed, that and including his lifespan, made it look like some C & P but without credit for it. Not important, really....just wondering. Yes...

Perhaps they do. On the other hand, human understanding is obviously capable of conceiving an unconditioned possibility, and pure reason has the autho...

Sure they can. So if people know a local piece of the natural world, and the natural world is a copy of heaven, then they know a piece of heaven? If s...

That’s fine. If you think the existence of the universe is sufficient proof of gods.....who am I to argue. But then...if to know the universe is to kn...

All this does is presuppose the reality of gods, for which proven empirical justification is lacking. Why don’t we just say a better knowledge of the ...

So...phenomena lay at the base, but theology lays a firmer base. How many degrees of firm are there? What’s the firmest possible base of knowledge? Ho...

Your accounting, or sourced from secondary literature?

Sense awareness....to be aware by means of the senses? If to be aware means use of the senses, how can awareness begin in the mind, which has nothing ...

Ehhhh.....the man’s life’s work was at stake. I was duty-bound, doncha know.

And this is why I absolutely detest the ghastly stupidity of language games. DETEST, I tell ya!! “As much as he wanted....” Exactly how much is that, ...

Ohfercrisakes.....that he wanted to deny it is every bit as false as he did deny it. He equally never did either.

Butting in...... Agreed, re: gravitational lensing. There are no mathematical expressions with space qua infinite containment, as a variable, which th...

This garden universe vibrates complete. Some we get a sound so sweet. Vibrations reach on up to become light, And then thru gamma, out of sight. Betwe...

Agreed; there is a body between. I was objecting to “we’re a body”, which I take to be a misconception. A categorical error of equating the mere repre...

It would seem that way, yes, as an analogy. Or some quantification of the same sort. But if charge per se, because all matter contains electrons, you ...

I’d agree there’s an inside and an outside, but not that “we’re a body between” them. Problem is, as always, that the physical must be responsible for...

Rock and a hard place: you won’t find consciousness, insofar as to so claim is reification of an abstract conception, but to say that of which the bod...

Ehhh....not to worry, until it becomes as bad as.... “....How should the minds that in the freshness of youth have been strained and ruined by the non...

I don’t have the era-specific expertise required for direct support herein, but the expertise.....or maybe just the favoritisms......I do have, being ...

“....To coin new words is a pretension to legislation in language which is seldom successful; for this reason, when it happens that there exists only ...

Reification. Or, misplaced concreteness. Knowledge is not an existence.

Ok. Thanks, it was fun. For awhile.

“....The mathematician, the natural philosopher, and the logician—how far soever the first may have advanced in rational, and the two latter in philos...