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Not to brag....although I usually do......I have an excellent condition first edition, 1929 KempSmith CPR, with a perfectly preserved ex libris Cambri...

If consciousness is the set of things, and if brain states enter consciousness, then it follows brain states are already things or become things upon ...

I’d nod in appreciation if that was all from someone else’s summary. I’d bow all the way to the ground if all that came out of your own head.

Hmmmm......so if what cannot be sensibly talked about is of such high import, go ahead and write a song about it? Paint a picture of it? In such an ev...

I think it must be so. If not, what’s the point in the old adage “think before you speak”. Besides, while thinking is a necessary human condition, lan...

Cool. That was my only contention. Quite so. And necessarily. What I describe is a representation of the thing of my experience. You do not perceive m...

True, but that doesn’t explain any changes in the thing. Just because you’ve described a thing with certain words, and the thing is more than the desc...

I understand that. A pressure wave is not a sound until after it has passed the auditory apparatus, true enough. Still, the thing, as pressure wave, m...

Not before. After. Objects are already things, therefore not by becoming things, but by becoming phenomena. Phenomena precede naming. Apples are separ...

Hard to give an example of a distinction. One must accept the premise that there is no language in pure thought, that pure thought is predicated on me...

The distinction resides in the point-of-use of a speculative human cognitive system on the one hand, and the talking about the conditions under which ...

Outstanding dialogue, you guys. Well done.

First......thanks for the vote of confidence. Second.....what’s the question? Perusing the posted comments, I come up with this: But then, this is two...

To do so would detract from the theme you’ve intended here. Let’s just let RGC speak for himself, through you, without undue influence.

Artifact....absolutely. Nonsense....absolutely. Barge pole....ditto. Agreed. What it’s like to be me, and “me”, are indistinguishable, which makes “wh...

Cool. Sorta liked that new-wave disco/pop (shudderchokegag) song in ‘85..... “Everybody wants to rule the world” ————— Wouldn’t that depend on what on...

So.....no irreducible, apodeictic, time-independent criteria for human rationality itself, merely as a condition of being human. No metaphorical “one ...

When “folk psychology” is spoken to you, what best describes what you hear, in a narrower sense of the term?

Yep. AKA....principles. Does RGC say anything about those, in relation to AP’s?

What does being awake feel like? Hell....what does being asleep feel like? Even if being asleep is different than being awake, is the difference quali...

“....But, as in the " Discourse on Method," I had requested all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me the favor of pointing i...

Yeah.....sad commentary, highlighted from the essay, “...high-powered narrowing of the human mind...” (Chuckles to self)

For an object the properties of which are perceived as arranged in a certain way, reason describes, e.g., the conception of a sphere. For the exact sa...

If nothing can be known.....how is the question possible?

I’ve been fortunate enough that my understanding has served me well. I do use commentaries sometimes, to check up on it, though. Sorta like....see if ...

Wouldn’t do much good to update me, at this stage of the game. I mean....what would be the point? Wouldn’t matter to water under the bridge, and there...

Are you saying Pinkard’s translation of Phenomenology of Spirit isn’t Hegel because it should have been translated as Phenomenology of Mind?

Pinkard’s Phenomenology of Spirit. No commentary needed, thanks.

Which presupposes I never have. I didn’t criticize; Schopenhauer did.

All good.

......explains the dearth of commemorations of Roscellinus.

Yep. And with a healthy dollop of metaphysical reductionism applied to info processing, one decent enough answer to the thread title distills out quit...

CJ is an even tougher read than CPR. I’m ok with the aesthetic part, probably from its ground in CPR, but don’t find much favor with the teleological.

As you wish. It’s your thread.

That, is probably what Schopenhauer was talking about, when he said this: “....still grosser nonsense of the clumsy and stupid Hegel...” (WWR, v2, App...

Kant says the “sure sign of sagacity and wisdom”, is to refrain from asking questions for which there is no rational answer. In other words, frame inq...

There is a section in CPR where Plato’s specific terminology is advocated as being taken as Plato intended. And holding the logic chair at Konisberg f...

The Platonists will certainly jump all over you up for that. Any of the pre-Socratics, too, maybe. But even they must grant that he single-handedly ca...

Yes, and no. Perceived, but not by us, because our space-time intuitions prevent it. Only a non-representational, non-intuitive system might perceive ...

Agreed. The OP, however, specifies Kantian fundamentals. People been elaborating on them ever since, to be sure.

Stage 1. Close enough. Closer examination reveals inconsistencies, but.....close enough. Stage 2. Again, close enough. The synthesis is not done by th...

Thanks. Still, just because that’s how I understand it, doesn’t mean that’s how The Good Professor meant it to be understood. I wish, but I don’t know...

Phenomena are “the undetermined objects of empirical intuition.” (A20/B34) The empirical characteristics of any intuition is the matter of the object ...

Never mind. I see now Charles has something else in mind. I was going to guess space and time.

Watch the trap. Fundamental epistemic criteria. Ground. What comes first, not last.

Three hours, no bites. What do you think......nobody knows, or nobody cares?

1.) Yes, but only to demonstrate a limitation..... 2.) ....because of the limitation.... ....and the limitation is us.

Not sure yet what to make of it, but interesting.

Ain’t that the truth!! Some do it more than a others, the most prevalent, I would guess, being the long-ago story embellishment......“Damn thing was T...

I would venture to say exactly that. Would mathematical logic, and propositional logic in general, even be possible, if the human way of thinking wasn...