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One is moral or immoral only if he is alone. Otherwise, he is possibly criminal, or merely unethical, which stand as objects of moral dispositions, bu...
July 27, 2025 at 13:25
Cognitive disorientation: the empirical kind, a posteriori, and properly reduced, occurs when we say we know what a thing is but we don’t realize it i...
July 27, 2025 at 11:42
Which is precisely what you did, on both counts, affirming the LNC violation you asked for.
July 25, 2025 at 10:24
…..and yet, in order to not understand what I said, what I said necessarily must have been something that appeared to your senses. Hence, the LNC….whi...
July 24, 2025 at 10:53
For me anyway, the only mind-independent items are those I don’t think about, either particularly, from the lack of occassion yet for which an experie...
July 23, 2025 at 12:27
“…. For, otherwise, we should require to affirm the existence of an appearance, without something that appears, which is absurd….” What’s violated, ab...
July 23, 2025 at 11:13
Ehhhh….we use language the same way, as means to represent a favored system, one in which you find the terms contradictory, another in which I find th...
July 22, 2025 at 11:25
Most interesting set of comments. I’m sort of attracted to new things my old ways would like to snub but realize quickly they’re not properly qualifie...
July 22, 2025 at 09:58
Nature in itself? I’m not sure how you mean the concept of nature to be understood in these cases, but I personally can think of no reason to even con...
July 21, 2025 at 12:18
Collingwood: the only modernization of Kant worth a damn. (That I know about) Absolute presuppositions of the one, are the transcendental principles o...
July 20, 2025 at 12:19
….and doing it badly, first, in that the impossible is not analytically contained in the merely insufficient, and second, effect is always analyticall...
July 19, 2025 at 12:38
Pretty much, yep, hence….unintelligible. It isn’t a question of natural; it’s naturally-occuring. It relates to things-in-themselves only insofar as t...
July 17, 2025 at 22:33
“…. It is only the principles of reason which can give to concordant phenomena the validity of laws, and it is only when experiment is directed by the...
July 17, 2025 at 09:39
Oh. I missed the clue. Sorry.
July 16, 2025 at 15:50
What a thermostat would be like absent human experience, is unintelligible, insofar as any named thing follows from a possible human experience. That ...
July 16, 2025 at 15:44
What would a thermostat-in-itself even mean? Could there ever be a thermostat that wasn't a possible human experience? The question never was - is a t...
July 16, 2025 at 14:39
Long live the observer.
July 14, 2025 at 10:37
I got a ton of unreal stuff in mine, bordering on a chaotic rhapsody if I’m being honest, all of which I’m somehow persuaded I can’t do without. Langu...
July 14, 2025 at 01:19
I agree it is a skimpy version of the idea, and it is a fragment of the practice itself. I was thinking to highlight the history, the origin and purpo...
July 13, 2025 at 12:56
No science, besides the accidental, is ever done that isn’t first thought, but even accidental science makes necessary thought relative to purpose. ——...
July 13, 2025 at 11:48
Funny animal it may seem, yet still be nonetheless relevant to the topic at hand. Or, I guess, now, the sub-topic.
July 12, 2025 at 20:01
Ehhhhh….dialectical precedent has it that responses to a quote are subjectively more honest without the influence of the author’s name, which is often...
July 12, 2025 at 18:35
Do you have more? Didn’t mean to shut you off.
July 12, 2025 at 17:32
A bet was intended to represent the subjective validity of a belief, for which the quality of the evidence just is the degree, both of which are presu...
July 12, 2025 at 17:15
“…. Thus we find in purely theoretical judgements an analogon of practical judgements, to which the word belief may properly be applied, and which we ...
July 12, 2025 at 13:08
“…. The usual test, whether that which any one maintains is merely his persuasion, or his subjective conviction at least, that is, his firm belief, is...
July 12, 2025 at 10:11
For dialectical consistency, we must say that metaphysically, conceptual relations as such, represent human understanding of natural events. Words des...
July 08, 2025 at 10:53
All law consists of the relation of conceptions in accordance with principles. That subsumed under law is determined by the source of the principles t...
July 07, 2025 at 21:50
Yeah, I like it too. Or something pretty close to it. Agreed, insofar as all natural external reality is independent from us with respect to its exist...
July 05, 2025 at 17:16
I haven’t the slightest clue regarding Banach space, but I recognize the common version of Zeno’s Paradox when I see it. Happy doodling.
July 02, 2025 at 22:28
Now that got me off on a Planck-scale research trip, I must say. Fascinating idea to be sure, but, if spacetime structure contracts to a single point,...
July 02, 2025 at 10:25
Be cool as hell, wouldn’t it, to find the palette idea in the marginations of the very first outline of his magnum opus? When he was, like, 18yo? His ...
July 01, 2025 at 11:29
The thread title and the OP refer to different concepts. The end of time and the end of spacetime can only be determinable by very different sets of c...
July 01, 2025 at 10:11
Nahhh….all that fits well enough. Did you keep the palette at three colors only to represent a relatively simple idea? How are the “moving parts of ot...
July 01, 2025 at 00:57
I understand; my point was only that the three colors in Kant don’t do what you’re suggesting. That, and, sorry, I misspoke in saying Kant would agree...
June 30, 2025 at 22:23
He would agree with that, I’ve no doubt. But he would not agree with “So blue represents the thing-in-itself that we can never know in its blue self; ...
June 29, 2025 at 22:54
Depict as to give an idea of perception in general, yeah, maybe. Under Kantian textual scrutiny, I think it does not. That being said, I have no wish ...
June 29, 2025 at 21:30
I would agree, in principle. A norm, insofar as it is a euphemism for some explicit rational condition, understanding is that by which that condition ...
June 29, 2025 at 20:37
More I’m happy to accept, given the general intent of your analogy. Shades of that “ways to philosophize” thread….I’m quite in love with dissecting mi...
June 29, 2025 at 19:24
Before that help is affirmative, it should be stipulated in what sense “yellow is analogous to the senses – eyeballs, ears, nervous systems, etc.”, in...
June 29, 2025 at 16:14
If it be allowed that scepticism as such, is, “….the principle of a technical and scientific ignorance, which undermines the foundations of all knowle...
June 25, 2025 at 13:47
Two cents: Given that common sense reality just means we know things as they are, my understanding of the tradition of denying common sense reality, s...
June 25, 2025 at 11:03
Not that there are no obscure prog rock albums from 1973, which makes the analogy works well enough, but it is rather coincidental that one of the 4 o...
June 25, 2025 at 09:54
Good; well-thought. I personally hesitate to use creativity regarding philosophical innovation, instead, favoring some sufficiently explanatory method...
June 24, 2025 at 11:11
I do, iff considered as pre-Brentano, re: late 19th century, hardly the apex of the Enlightenment paradigm. But you probably meant by “anyone here”, c...
June 22, 2025 at 21:41
Oh, I’m a rational-life-long, card-carryin’ dissector, to be sure. I do loves me some minutia, donchaknow, in the interest of philosophical clarity of...
June 17, 2025 at 18:09
Theory-ladenness notwithstanding, A99/B160 should make clear that apprehension, in the Kantian sense, has to do with the possibility of perception, an...
June 17, 2025 at 12:42
All well and good, perhaps, unless or until we want to know what each thing is, how it is to be known as that thing and no other. In such case, the tr...
June 14, 2025 at 12:16
Perhaps the missing shade of blue is a bit of rationalistic thinking? I mean, he admits, re: E.C.H.U., 2, 16, an exception to the general rule of cons...
June 13, 2025 at 14:08
….not being able to say (?): How can a metaphysical project, the theme of which is the set of necessary conditions for a theoretical method of empiric...
June 10, 2025 at 13:50