In Kant, transcendental realism only means space and time, while still the forms of objects, resides in them as intrinsic properties. By transferring ...
How many neurotransmitters does it take for a ‘57 DeSoto? Which particular pathway are they on? What’s the maximum permissible distance of the channel...
Actually, the ding an sich is necessary for perception, the passive impression on the sensory apparatus. Post-impression, it is the active faculties o...
Be that as it may, it is nothing but a commentary on the intellect that does philosophy, rather than the philosophy being done by it. In any case, eit...
It is confused, therefore hardly exactly right. In Berkeley, Kant’s thing-in-itself wasn’t eliminated; it was never considered in the first place, hen...
Yeah, I was being somewhat melodramatic. I trust your sense of clarity in this regard, insofar as my prejudices are too embedded. Still, it shouldn’t ...
Sure, those guys and the rest are good, each in is own way, if only for examples of philosophical progress. You mentioned the Prolegomena, in which th...
Check out the new Lexus. Part of the warning system is....push this button, bells and whistles indicate oncoming complications to opening your door. S...
On “a kind of sense perception”: Empirical intuitions of sense perceptions is the arrangement of the matter of objects according to forms contained a ...
Hmmm...but mustn’t I think, in order for there to be thoughts to be aware of? Can’t infer that which has happened. True enough, and transposing, we ha...
Our duty to do good, which is predicated on practical reason, is not the same as duty itself, which has nothing to do with reason. “....Duty is the ne...
First...a concession: Reason, the passive noun, in granting it as an intrinsic subjective condition of being human, merely as an exemplar for the give...
Intriguing declaration, that. Care to enlighten? ——— That just implies Kant talks of nothing but reason, and doesn’t talk about where meaning might be...
Actually, in good faith is the only way these things can be talked about. We just can’t know anything empirically about them, because they are never a...
What would a thought emerge from, and with what do we recognize it as such? Can I ever think, and be unaware that I think? If not, then when I think I...
Crap. My bad. I went from describing to constructing, without due diligence. Let’s just go back to the point where we agreed, and let it go at that, o...
OK...couple things here of relative importance. First, and least important, insofar as yours is equally a direct quote, this to support my “concepts w...
In which case, “I think” is an anomaly? A genuine falsehood? If it is not “I” that thinks, or, if it is not thinking that the conception “I” represent...
Hmmm. I won’t attempt to argue your assertion; you are quite welcome to it, and may even be able to justify it. But the qualified assertion is wrong. ...
No, we don’t, but there comes from the possibility, that damnable, cursed transcendental illusion, in that we know we construct logically predicated o...
Why should that be? Why care what the non-ration nature of the world includes, if it must still be met with our particular, human, method of understan...
In Kant’s day, naturalism was indicative of the sciences, from which he says.... “....Whether the treatment of that portion of our knowledge which lie...
Which is to say, consciousness is other than its content. I think this an unnecessary reduction. A describer that does not describe is a contradiction...
This is true, but Kantian metaphysics has nothing to do with the logical restraints of language, per se. It is not concerned with the reader/observer,...
Hmmm.....I see I’ve unintentionally inflicted an ambiguity. Yes, we can properly say, in accordance with the proper test methods and practices we inve...
Yes. The ubiquitous analogy......just from seeing five rocks here, and seeing four rocks there, it is impossible to cognize a certain totality of rock...
THAT conception? Not sure what conception you mean. If you mean my exposition of non-empirical intuitions, that is not a conception of the transcenden...
In short, applied mathematics is demonstration of mathematical reasoning. Doing the math which grounds the physical sciences presupposes the axioms an...
Nowadays, it seems being taught is all we consider in the acquisition of knowledge, which is the same as “how we see things”, I’m guessing. Which is p...
Truth.... As he must, at least in humans, in keeping with his admitted metaphysical dualism. When he states that intuitions are sensible representatio...
Cool. Objects in general. Not the particular object. The hint was there; just making sure I understood it. ———— With respect to the “....speculative m...
One of my favorite quotable passages. Seems pretty easy to decipher, but there’s more to it than the words, especially considering the footnote that a...
Ehhhh....there’s a bunch of exposure already. Doubt there’ll be much more without specific inquiry. Gotta say, though. There’s been some pretty respec...
A minor exposition on the confusion of noumena with things-in-themselves: “....The conception of a noumenon, that is, of a thing which must be cogitat...
I can see some parallels here. Noumena are non-being; it is itself a conception but cannot be conceptualized, which is to say there are no schema repr...
“.....I can think what I please, provided only I do not contradict myself; that is, provided my conception is a possible thought....” “....understandi...
Long story short, in Kant.....yes. Kantian epistemology is a system, with integrated functions. When you ask if something can be understood, you are b...
Footnote 7 is the reference to LaPlace, 1814, for a description of how Bohr wants his own use of “phenomena” to be understood. Tough read...Wheeler (E...
“...By a field, you remember, we mean a quantity which depends upon position in space....” (Feynman Lectures, Vol 2, Ch 2. Sec 2, 1964, CalTech) As in...
Every human being ever, finds himself at the inescapable mercy of his own kind of intellect, which is the only possible origin of ‘world’ in absolute ...
Ehhhhh.....those investigate humanity and its behaviors generally, albeit under empirical conditions, without due regard for man’s intrinsic metaphysi...
Cool. But then, if ethics presupposes morality, then ethics is necessarily conditioned by it, which may not be sufficient to consider ethics an artifa...
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