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Irrelevant, insofar as ‘predicated on’ as a general methodological necessity is not the same as ‘recognition of’ a particular exception. In the case o...

This wanders too far afield. A system predicated on prediction and trial and error cannot be as efficient as one predicated on pure logic, given the e...

I don’t either. Take for granted, that is. But ya gotta admit.....seeing the numbers in your head, or not seeing a reason, is just the same form of co...

Yes. Close enough. Again, true enough. What if conceptual structure is itself logical? If it is, then the efficiency we have is all we’re ever going t...

This works for objects of perception, for real objects in the world which affect our sensibility. We know this from the fact we sometimes are affected...

If you can add any set of random four-digit numbers together in your head, you are thinking without sensing.

And it is a dialectic non-starter to fail to grasp that talking about a thing is the only way to objectively represent it. Of course I talk about thin...

As I said: an unabashed, unapologetic dualist’s personal preference regarding an organized cognitive system. I can think a thing without its being pre...

You guys are making a mess of OLP. YEA!!!!

Me too. To be aware of the possibility of a thing, then to be aware of the thing, proves the thing. To be conscious of the possibility of a thing, the...

I’m ok with that. While I’m hesitant to accept this, I won’t reject it either, without some proper argument to judge it by. I might go for rational th...

Actually, I was working from this.... ....from which the deduction of the self must have already been established, insofar as there must already be th...

Don’t mind me none; just musing..... Did Descartes actually demonstrate freedom, or did he rather posit that freedom was “...sensed within ourselves.....

Of course not. It is possible to engage in philosophical discourse that does not have physicalism as its subject. Physicalism is central to a philosop...

Under the most serious empirical reduction, we are only our bodies, or, we are nothing other than what our bodies facilitate. Then all the possible qu...

“....For the empirical consciousness which accompanies different representations is in itself fragmentary and disunited, and without relation to the i...

That, and its negation, “it couldn’t be anything other than what it is”. Both unimpeachable, in that they are tautologically true. Which makes them pr...

Yep, under the presupposition of universal consciousness, re: Anaxagoras, or universal will, re: Schopenhauer. And others, probably. Depending on the ...

Actually.....having thought about it overnight......if consciousness is external, then it affects the brain. If consciousness is internal, the brain i...

Ahhhh....I see. What you meant by grounding presupposition? I was going there myself, with “the philosophical admissions of the cognitive scientist hi...

Couldn’t be any other way, could it. I would even go so far as to declare, saying that philosophy, and he who merely poses as a philosopher, rejects e...

Well said. An unfolding neural process would be an experience of the brain, by one who does brain experiments, which relates to Einstein, 1934, “....A...

You know how that would go, even if they were informed of such reveals: they would still want to know what the observations alone can’t tell them. Whi...

Machine ghosts being one more in a long list of conceptualizations the brain foists on the unsuspecting and unprepared human? Not to over-nitpick a ca...

It is. The human brain is a fascinating contraption, even so.

Maybe. I was going for pure rational thought, as that which everybody does, or the manifest appearance of a purely rational thinking subject, as that ...

I’m not. Nothing wrong with the science, which is why I’m not arguing about it. I mean....how can “we hypothesize....” be argued?

Ya know....and I know you do....it was said many moons ago, that human reason is very good at contradicting itself. So if brain machinations are the b...

You won’t get an argument from me, for that which I know nothing about, on the one hand, and on the other, that your scientific be-all-end-all domain ...

You betcha. And not only that, but anywhere but right here, the-brain-referred-to-as-Mww......isn’t.

What can I say. My brain made me do it.

Odd, innit? The brain does everything, neuroscience does the work to say what the brain is doing when it does everything, then, at the same time, one ...

Ehhhh....dunno what to tell ya, man. It’s your thread, so I guess you’re kinda stuck with what you get.

You didn’t, so no worries. I was commenting....editorializing.....on page 7 here, as a spectator. That page was pretty unimpressive, considering the n...

Page 7. The good.... Far and away the easiest page to read since I’ve been onboard; The bad..... Easiest to read because there was nothing to think ab...

Matter as representation is perhaps more an understanding than a belief. Materialism, a way of representing the world based on the concept of matter, ...

Thanks for the fair point, but nevertheless, synthetic a priori judgements are the very ground of transcendental philosophy. They are the prime refuta...

“....Just as little is any principle of pure geometry analytical.....” (CPR, B16) Proper steelmanning, and even Socratic dialectics, needs to show how...

You are correct with respect to the advent of a non-Euclidean axiomatic system. I misspoke by asking about spherical geometry, the determinant axioms ...

Do you really think Kant didn’t know about spherical geometry? And didn’t take care to qualify his postulates accordingly?

Gotta be pretty careful about “what Kant is getting at”. We conceive of the world.....what way? Conceive of the world in a material way? Care to elabo...

I think, once again, that this can only be a logical claim, which would stand insofar as if something is impossible to know, it will be unknowable for...

Not in those exact words, no, but as I said....close enough. Seems to me any intelligent design argument arises from similar iterations of your person...

It is unknowable, and that position is acceptable, iff considered by Kant’s standards. To say the way Kant talks about it is misleading or wrong is fi...

Dunno, but it seems your metaphysical principle is similar to Rousseau, 1762, or maybe Paley, 1802. Close enough, methinks.

“....For pure speculative reason has this peculiarity, that, in choosing the various objects of thought, it is able to define the limits of its own fa...

Personally, I don’t think objects with infinite properties are even possible. Given that an object is the sum of its parts describable by properties, ...

I’m more than happy to be corrected. Direct references from relevant texts mandatory, of course.

Categorical error. The axiom of Identity is derived a priori. That which is analytic, such as the axiom of identity in the form A = A, is a self-evide...

Yet you insist the specifics are necessary. In any case, if you don’t know the specifics, you cannot say with any authority, or prove with any certain...