I agree with the answer, with the caveat that even the a priori has no business conflicting with, or leading to conflicts with, Mother Nature Herself....
Philosopher: I’ll tell you how I think, do with it as you will. Psychologist: I’ll tell you how you think, do with it as you should. Stereotypical opi...
“...a miserable tautology...”; “....a lame appeal to logical argument....”; “.....recourse to pitiful sophisms....”. Back in the day, intellectuals ch...
Bullseye!!! Feelings about an object are possible without the affect on the senses of it; cognition of an object is possible without the affect on the...
Every object I perceive, not just see. Prior expectation is a euphemism for intuition. Fulfills exceptions implies understanding, in which case intuit...
No doubt. See it in the ‘papers all the time, in one form or another. At the community level, guy beats the crap out of his wife because he thought sh...
Aspects of the same process, perhaps, dunno. Depends on what the process is. I doubt the process is reason, however. But nonetheless, they are separab...
No, the self is not autonomous; it being susceptible to a plethora of inclinations. Still, “an autonomous causality contained by the self” does not ma...
Yes, I get that. “Intentional structure of motivated attending to” represents “to will”; “letting oneself be affected” presupposes an autonomous causa...
Nothing, if willing isn’t possible ontologically. What does it even mean for the ontological possibility for willing anyway? Where’s the profit in cla...
You may understand Special Relativity correctly, but just can’t get it into English quite right. Look for the contradiction in your comment, as it was...
I think....speculate....that without us, there are no natural cycles; there are only natural events, occasions. With us, or because of us, natural eve...
Hmmm. I’m guessing you’re asking if I agree we think about time and can’t get around it. If that’s what you’re asking, then, yes, we think about time ...
That is only the time of my thinking. This now I think cycles, that next now I don’t. Doesn’t mean the cycles are dependent on what I think. Logically...
Just to show you’re being read...... I can’t show you a time that is not right now. I can’t show you a time at all. I can show you something that is i...
Sense impressions being given, and from them, comparatively speaking....... ....what is it that connects? ....connected synthetically, with what? .......
Yeah, me too. I am quite certain I cannot think the unthinkable, and the unknowable suffices as that to which there is nothing to direct my thinking, ...
Would I be naive, in thinking there is no concern, at least generally speaking, because our perceptions are valid enough to establish our interactions...
It’s all the Good Professor’s fault. He took care to say exactly why and how he wanted noumena to be understood (A249/B306), in accordance with a bran...
There are nineteen uses of the concept “noumenon” or its derivatives in CPR. None of them equate noumena with the ding an sich. I have no argument for...
Yeah, the common counterargument. Acts of synthesis are phenomena given by imagination, as far as the notion of space is concerned. Failing to show ho...
“...Not only in judgements, however, but even in conceptions, is an a priori origin manifest. For example, if we take away by degrees from our concept...
Oh oh. Now you went and done it. You hinted he may have made a mistake. To which, of course, invites the response that you, rather, may have not under...
Not a standard in juxtaposition to its falsification, but to its explanatory novelty. Can’t challenge something that comes after the challenge, right?...
I considered this on pg 4. Really exist? Not like billiard balls and acorns, no, the concept abstracted from principles does not really exist. The pri...
I already have something to stand on, and I don’t care about one X. I want to determine a possible alpha. That said, fingers cause the keys to be stru...
Yeah....about that. What caused the words? And PLLL—EEEEEZZZEEE...don’t say my fingers caused the words. Finite causal regression writ large. And a lo...
It is true the cause of an effect cannot be known absent experience. Still, it remains that no singular object of perception, in and of itself, can in...
Not what you said. Y has a cause, even if the cause is unknown. Therefore no alpha can be a Y, but you also said an alpha is a Y but a Y with no cause...
Y: represents an existence that has an unknown prior causality. X: represents an existent prior causality to Y. Alpha: A Y existence that is identifie...
Yes, you did. That conclusion being there is a necessary first cause. Which is the same as, if a first cause is necessary, there absolutely must be on...
We don’t know there is a first cause, yet we conclude logically there must be one. What we know today is that, in our experience, every change has a c...
Yeah, well, you know. I want to know stuff. That first causes are logically necessary tells me not a damn thing about stuff. I’m aware of some theorie...
“....Our knowledge springs from two main sources in the mind, first of which is the faculty or power of receiving representations (receptivity for imp...
If the bridge is washed out, my path across it is impossible. That the path is impossible doesn’t leave me with a known alternate for getting across w...
The subject matter in this case makes clear you are correct, a first cause is logically necessary. The continuation of the subject matter also makes c...
Metaphysics is “....any speculative science based on principles, independent of experience....”, under which is the metaphysics of knowledge and the m...
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