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Great. Now I get to wonder about it.
November 05, 2021 at 18:13
Sorry.....what???
November 05, 2021 at 18:02
Interesting video, so thanks for that. We don’t really know the limits on our capacity of knowing, for to grant that we even have a limit, we may then...
November 05, 2021 at 17:21
I would agree with your impression, in that WE....humanity in general....have no conscious need of TII. It is only metaphysics, and that only under ce...
November 05, 2021 at 12:59
Science: a system of study the ends of which are determinable; Philosophy: the organon by which systems of study are determinable.
November 05, 2021 at 11:09
Not so much dealing with, or related to, but determination of. It doesn’t, truth being nothing but a human epistemological cognition a priori, whereas...
November 05, 2021 at 09:56
Oh. The qualia guy. Might be interesting.
November 04, 2021 at 16:39
HA!!! Yeah....pretty hard to think of a trash can as a thing-in-itself, n’est ce pas? I mean, we built the damn thing from the ground up, so why would...
November 04, 2021 at 15:26
Philosophically relevant, but try telling Mr. or Mrs. Suburbia that thing just put on the curb isn’t actually a trash can. Even his media-crazed Gen Z...
November 04, 2021 at 11:30
Not sure what you mean by apprehended here. That something can even be perceived requires that thing to be of such a nature we can perceive it, sure, ...
November 03, 2021 at 22:42
I wouldn’t agree he had to postulate it; it falls out necessarily from a logical/representational cognitive system, under the assumption, of course, t...
November 03, 2021 at 22:03
Yep, seems right. That would fill the niche of that which doesn’t depend on us. I’m going to assume you mean the given is shaped by us, and not that t...
November 03, 2021 at 17:10
Yeah......sorta like that thread asking, “how does a fact establish itself as knowledge”. (Sigh)
November 03, 2021 at 13:12
Whatever gives rise to our considerations, insofar as they belong to us, and given the inconsistency among us, must be as much ours as the considerati...
November 03, 2021 at 12:17
Nor I, this: ‘Til next time. Your turn to buy.
October 31, 2021 at 22:00
As is plain to see, I made no mention of, nor did I mean to implicate, the mere sensation of the taste of a thing, with an aesthetic feeling of like (...
October 31, 2021 at 13:38
Then I am embarrassed for not making it clear I wasn’t talking about flavor.
October 29, 2021 at 22:28
Trust me....not a single one. The sole relevant criterion, in this case, is....that hair style’s affect on my inner sense. Technically, my subjective ...
October 29, 2021 at 21:21
They aren’t, likes and dislikes alike .......see what I did right there??......are the objects of judgements. They are that to which the judgement per...
October 29, 2021 at 15:21
This is a confusion of what I said, but can be clarified somewhat, in that it is entirely possible that aesthetic judgements are not comprehensible at...
October 29, 2021 at 12:44
Wouldn’t matter either way; it’s beside the point. And that’s the point. In light of our experience and understanding. But I understand what you’re sa...
October 28, 2021 at 23:43
Do you think he was successful?
October 28, 2021 at 23:16
They’re not all that different; they’re only different in two ways. Of course they do. Aesthetic judgements switch at the drop of a news cycle, or the...
October 28, 2021 at 23:10
Yep. Different kinds of judgement. Or, judgements predicated on different kinds of conditions.
October 28, 2021 at 21:45
Fair assessment, yes.
October 28, 2021 at 19:05
Oh, that. Nothing more than speculative metaphysics. One man’s garden is another man’s wasteland.
October 28, 2021 at 12:31
Yeah, that universal consciousness, mindful matter nonsense has been around as long as man has succeeded in persuading himself toward contradictions. ...
October 28, 2021 at 11:35
That’s the very trap I referred to. If it is the case that the human system operates on logical structure and conceptual shaping, it then becomes the ...
October 28, 2021 at 03:01
The whole dialectic I’m involved in concerns perception, so I’m not sure what you’re asking. No one ever senses “me”, and nothing sensed is ever “made...
October 28, 2021 at 02:47
Yes, overall, but not initially. By the time we get to the experience of molecular structure, trees, as such, are already presupposed. Experience of c...
October 28, 2021 at 02:30
Yes, for their proofs, their empirical validity. Not for their construction, which are merely logically non-contradictory. Logic alone cannot teach us...
October 28, 2021 at 01:09
Yep. Think about it. What was it before it was a tree? And that thing, why is it a “tree” and not some other named thing? That thing always was a thin...
October 28, 2021 at 01:04
Working from the proposition, “present via us....”, internality is not only helpful with respect to theoretical predicates, it is absolutely necessary...
October 28, 2021 at 00:51
Agreed. WE would not require an unassisted conception, but somebody did. Which reduces to, every conception was somebody’s unassisted baby.
October 28, 2021 at 00:42
Before cognitive workings, yes, we could say that. But if the prime human pursuit is knowledge, to say that and include the cognitive workings, we mus...
October 28, 2021 at 00:38
But if you follow this out to its logical end, that which is present via us, can only be because of us, which makes the collaboration internal, elimin...
October 28, 2021 at 00:32
Depends on your chosen epistemological theory. Your eyes don’t tell you there’s a tree, they only tell you there’s an object. If your eyes don’t tell ...
October 28, 2021 at 00:21
A list of the uninvited? ————- Perhaps, but then comes the notion that we are necessary causality for empirical realities. And if subjectivity is true...
October 27, 2021 at 23:58
We don’t need to go directly to those grounds. They come to us, as undetermined, but determinable, somethings, by means of perception. We can’t know t...
October 27, 2021 at 23:39
Rudolph Steiner. Oh. Wait. Nobody here is. Never mind.
October 27, 2021 at 23:09
Yes. The representational cognitive system intrinsic to the human condition, writ large. Really difficult to theorize, or even speculate, its negation...
October 27, 2021 at 22:48
I had one all written up, it I couldn’t access proper references to support it. I have some books by Russell, just not pertaining closely enough to th...
October 27, 2021 at 21:35
Ok. Thanks
October 27, 2021 at 20:22
Ok, that’s fine. Russell is saying the development of a certain point of view for the distinction between mind and matter, gives an illusory result. T...
October 27, 2021 at 15:45
Curious......how much of this Russell do you support? Re: is the conclusion that the distinction between mind and matter is illusory, true?
October 27, 2021 at 13:45
You might have made the happiest man in the Bay State.
October 26, 2021 at 18:17
For the record, I wasn’t offended, and I didn’t consider the tone flippant. It is my contention that the quote you used, “...be wholly still and alone...
October 26, 2021 at 13:44
In keeping with the times, circa1793, fifteen thousand words to say, the good man already has what religion prescribes, the bad man already rejects wh...
October 26, 2021 at 13:03
Interesting, so....thanks for that. “...We enact a self in the process of awareness, and this self comes and goes depending on how we are aware....” (...
October 25, 2021 at 18:48
So.....I am not if I do not experience? Or, I am iff I experience? IknowIknowIknow.....it’s just me, but I find it quite absurd, that just because “I”...
October 25, 2021 at 12:57