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That’s certainly half of it, and true enough in itself. But the concept of mind can be unambiguous if the theory of which it is a constituent is logic...
August 26, 2021 at 22:42
Right where it belongs. Whether or not there is an actual problem, the concept of mind, taken in its irreducible sense, is at least part of the questi...
August 26, 2021 at 21:55
Hmmm. How does infinite reflections in paired mirrors prove numbers are contained in Nature? If counting is a recursive procedure, the procedure itsel...
August 26, 2021 at 16:25
Yeah....a take-off on the old “is math invented or discovered” dichotomy. There are those that say math is ideal because there are no numbers in Natur...
August 26, 2021 at 11:01
What supports Kant against his usual opponents? Max Black’s comments? Is it Black that says what you wrote... If so, that opposes Kant rather than sup...
August 25, 2021 at 22:15
Ok. Good to know.
August 25, 2021 at 19:47
“....Some few principles preposited by geometricians are, indeed, really analytical, and depend on the principle of contradiction..... Yet, the analyt...
August 25, 2021 at 16:54
....an extension of a probable error, which would necessarily implicate itself as a probable error. 1 + 1 = 3 + 1 = 4 is the error compounded, iff 1 +...
August 22, 2021 at 10:08
Seconded. And agreed.
August 21, 2021 at 18:31
Not that I know of. Defines metaphysics as such, defines transcendental this or that pursuant to context, but doesn’t explicitly combine them. But he ...
August 21, 2021 at 16:12
“....I confine myself to the examination of reason alone and its pure thought; and I do not need to seek far for the sum-total of its cognition, becau...
August 21, 2021 at 15:59
Doesn’t this presuppose that which we wish to know? If experience is the teacher, from whence comes the teacher? Or, better yet....from what does the ...
August 21, 2021 at 10:24
I’m not going to spend much time on this, but taken in context, re: “given the two basic kinds....I await...” is a declaration of intention, not an “a...
August 20, 2021 at 00:51
While I didn’t technically ask a question, I was querying Tim, as to how he thought the one grounded in the other. The quote merely relates to Tim’s a...
August 19, 2021 at 19:54
Sorry......what?
August 19, 2021 at 19:11
Of course nothing can be, but intuition doesn’t have anything to do with understanding..... “...the understanding cannot intuit and the sensuous facul...
August 19, 2021 at 11:09
Just baffles me that people are alive and otherwise well, that reject that truism. Still, check out these rock formations: https://thedailyplasma.blog...
August 18, 2021 at 22:16
Not quite. Thought is different from sensibility, but thought is always and only tied to understanding. “....For it** is, according to what has been s...
August 18, 2021 at 13:36
The way in which pure a priori knowledge is apodeitic is becaiuse it arises from the understanding alone, an internal cognitive faculty, thereby grant...
August 15, 2021 at 14:24
Sensation arises from the matter of objects and is the initiation of the process by which the system is going to determine how the object is to be kno...
August 15, 2021 at 12:17
From B3: “....whether there exists a knowledge altogether independent of experience, and even of all sensuous impressions? But the expression, "a prio...
August 15, 2021 at 10:59
“....Thus the person who has learned a system of philosophy—say the Wolfian—although he has a perfect knowledge of all the principles, definitions, an...
August 12, 2021 at 10:27
......are given their ground beginning with A50/B74, in which are found definitions, systemic conditions, and constituent relations. A few pages that ...
August 10, 2021 at 10:02
It’s only been four days since....... The thing-in-itself is a real, physical, space/time thing, — Mww Any examples of them? — Corvus Yeah......every ...
August 08, 2021 at 10:50
It may be in White, but it is so in NKS, 1929, reading along with Benno Erdmann, circa 1889, found in a translator’s footnote, at A491/B519.
August 07, 2021 at 19:29
On empirical idealism: The human cognitive system is inherently logical, therefore, for any this, the negation of it is given immediately in that. Kan...
August 07, 2021 at 14:06
I didn’t look there, but found it since. Thanks.
August 06, 2021 at 18:53
What I think now......much better.
August 06, 2021 at 12:31
Citation? I ask because you’ve indicated the statement is a quote, but I can’t find it in any of my translations. Not saying it isn’t in somebody’s, s...
August 06, 2021 at 11:12
Good, well-thought, post. I note 1.) the transition from analytic/continental, to, analytic/synthetic, and 2.) the correctness of the pragmatist paren...
August 05, 2021 at 13:15
Dunno about that, but I was told this one has special provenance, what with the ex libris Cambridge University bookplate.....which might simply indica...
August 04, 2021 at 17:15
BRAVO!!!! No substitute for the book, I must say. Norman Kemp Smith was the standard translation from 1929, until the Guyer/Wood came along. Typically...
August 04, 2021 at 16:22
If the principles determine the applicability of certain faculties there must be rules for determining the conditions which meet the criteria of the a...
August 04, 2021 at 16:15
Good one downloadable from Gutenburg. Searchable, jumpable and C&P enabled. Guyer/Wood, C&P enabled, non-searchable, scroll only, but with good transl...
August 04, 2021 at 12:30
Maybe. Stephen King has a catchphrase, born in the Dark Tower series.....”they have forgotten the face of their fathers”, a literary commentary on hon...
August 04, 2021 at 12:20
Yeah......every single thing there ever was or ever will be. All things are external to us, so exists in its own right. Exists as itself. Exists in-it...
August 04, 2021 at 11:56
Damned if I know. “I don’t think we reason....” is itself a thought, albeit with negative predication, so if we only think if there’s a problem, and “...
August 03, 2021 at 23:41
No, I don’t think that’s quite right.. The categories are stated as legitimately applied to objects, or possible objects, hence, objects of experience...
August 03, 2021 at 23:12
Ok, thanks.
August 03, 2021 at 22:39
Absolutely not, in Kantian metaphysics, at least. The thing-in-itself is a real, physical, space/time thing, says so right there in the name. The logi...
August 03, 2021 at 19:33
Can’t argue with your logic. “...Our foregoing method of reasoning will easily convince us, that there can be no demonstrative arguments to prove, tha...
August 03, 2021 at 17:51
Bingo. Which is all Descartes meant to say: “therefore I am” is an analytic judgement given from, and thus is a predicate for, “I think”, but “I am”, ...
August 03, 2021 at 14:19
By composing what you will say. Can’t rehearse what hasn’t been composed. Assuming abstractive thought to mean the understanding of conceptions that h...
August 03, 2021 at 12:56
True enough. Still, I wonder..... .....what may have been the problem needing to be solved, which inspired you to think we do not think unless there i...
August 03, 2021 at 10:53
Then what would inform us there isn’t? What would encountering a problem be compared to?
August 03, 2021 at 01:22
True. But there is a ton of empirical evidence that justifies the claim no two physical objects can occupy the same space at the same time. Wouldn’t y...
August 02, 2021 at 22:22
Technically, in Kant, “I think” accompanies representations in intuition, but “I am” accompanies judgements. The former is the synthetical unity of se...
August 02, 2021 at 21:12
...(fact): the I in the garden then was not the same I in the chair now; ...cannot deny (the fact): the I in the garden is not the same I in the chair...
August 02, 2021 at 15:38
Yes. Just that. Yes, but I was talking about causality, not explanation. Only the intentional acts. Simple = boring. Wouldn’t you rather be challenged...
August 02, 2021 at 11:19
Sorry. There just wasn’t a trigger in your comments sufficient to inspire me to engage with them. I did explain myself, which I considered to be enoug...
August 01, 2021 at 20:45