Not to put too fine a point on it, but Kant’s pre-critical period had much to do with the world, whereas his critical period had only to do with our h...
I don’t think these are the same, and although either of them is necessary for their respective doing of philosophy, neither is sufficient for standin...
Not directed at you, just using your words as the firing line. All empirical philosophy in general and cognitive metaphysics in particular, is contain...
My parents went into a serious hole paying for the house I grew up in, and the land included with it. My first reenlistment check would have paid for ...
In the same way that a statement could have no meaning to the subject receiving it as it may to the subject constructing it, to stake a claim to a mor...
Before getting started here, let me reiterate my appreciation for your philosophical acumen. I consider you as one of the few actually doing philosoph...
At first glance, that’s a confusion of aesthetic judgements with strictly moral judgements. Are you saying the willingness to be responsible is an aes...
Take the guy making the greatest impression of his time, find the premier terms he uses....done deal. Regarding Western philosophy, Classical: matter/...
Yep. Me too. Except..... ......if it is my claim, and expresses that pledge, why isn’t it only my poverty or wellness my claim expresses? Furthermore....
On the one hand, that just seems like the ultimate reconciliation, doesn’t it? I doubt they’d be considered identical to each other, on the other, so ...
Best, most unique definition presupposes there is one. Yet..... ....suggests there isn’t. Each be satisfied with what each thinks? It’s what we do any...
What is meant by will depends on how it is understood, either as a determining faculty (pace Kant), or as a determined identity (pace Schopenhauer), o...
Yep. Been considered as, but not provably so. All that exists is physical, which means one whole field of consciousness necessarily presupposes physic...
Devil’s advocate. Doesn’t this reduce to the possibility I am merely imagining my anger or joy? If this process does what, or does as, reason does.......
Interesting, yes, and thanks for that. Still, that we used to grunt over who gets to sit where around the campfire, but now we talk about parallel uni...
Ehhhh....reason can’t tell us what not to think. It does a fine job of telling us how silly our thinking might be. To say I think about myself thinkin...
True enough, but what if the care isn’t for words, but the origins of them, be what they may? Even to say words are mere inventions, they are always i...
Man, get ready to dodge the tomatoes.....bringing Kant into a discussion analyzing strictly Platonic shadows. Much of Plato is found in Kant, to be su...
I suppose. From a further metaphysical reduction, however, any quantity that has been assembled can be disassembled. So the divisibility of some quant...
The root of the whole problem, isn’t it. Neuroscience wants to be able to figure us out, insofar as we are composed of that which adheres to natural l...
Yes, agreed, at first glance. We all are given the same kind of brain, all brains work the same way, reason manifests as brain function, therefore we ...
Agreed, but qualified by circumstance. Feelings getting in the way of reductionist empiricism, that is, the study of our relation to and understanding...
Which illustrates with perfect clarity, that the principle of cause and effect is not necessarily bounded by phenomenal constituency. The misunderstan...
I have to keep this short, in that this is a thread concerned with Greek philosophy, of which I am rather less than proficient. When I say we are affe...
Point. From respect, perhaps....squabble of intellectuals? Understood. Ditto. ———————- Fine by me. Immanent refers to that which is possible to experi...
I don’t care what anybody says, just gotta appreciate a guy who has an answer for a question, that doesn’t do anything but make another question inevi...
I was backtracking for context, and it became apparent that if I was to comment on the dialogue you’re engaged in with , I’d first have to find out ho...
There are as many answers as there are those that answer, but here’s one: “....Of all the a priori sciences of reason, therefore, mathematics alone ca...
Sorry for the delay; duties of everyday life, doncha know. Hmmmm. I grant the need to answer the radical skeptic with a solution (rebuttal? refutation...
Because on the face of it, the sentence is a ridiculous contradiction, for to say “to know S is a proposition, it is not necessary to know S (is a pro...
It’s fascinating how much of that carries over to subsequent metaphysical renditions. Just goes to show....humans haven’t changed that much, from then...
I must agree. If there was a proposition that was not known, what would make it a proposition? The idea of propositions in general, not created, hence...
Are you suggesting fear is synonymous, or compatible, with doubt? Either or, Rene was explicit in his doubt, but it can’t be said with sufficient just...
Only the common, or the uninformed, succumb to such disaster. Everyone makes mistakes; no need to fear anything. The human compulsion for certainty is...
As overblown as W makes that sound, it is actually what the human system attempts to do, if not attain to certainty, at least have some certainty by w...
Good, because experiencing anything “-in-itself”, is impossible. Again, under the auspices of a representational cognitive system operating with logic...
Nope, would never mean to say that, seeing as how being hit by a bus has certain altogether empirical implications on the one hand, but my subjective ...
Cool. So, can we say this..... .....is what your..... ....is meant to indicate? If such is the case, and it is as well the case that what you experien...
Yep. The empirical domain we can point to, the rational domain we can point with. The knowledge of each is as different in kind as the domains themsel...
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