Forest/trees. “...We find, too, that those who are engaged in metaphysical pursuits are far from being able to agree among themselves, but that, on th...
Hard-core physicalist/scientist = S Regular dude = R Metaphysician = M R: I think. S: No you don’t. That’s the brain at work. R: How does the brain wo...
There are two differences. One is the error of equivocation. John is the subject of the statement in the first, belief is the subject in the second, b...
Good refresher article. Thanks. (Sidebar, of little or no import: right across the inlet from Harris Island, is the 1718 Sayward-Wheeler House, a colo...
Oh, I like that. Yours? Perception informs of a general affect on sense, sensation informs which sense is affected. Both of which are sufficient for b...
“....We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins....
No, it isn’t any more conventional; it is nonetheless conventional. Unqualified, stand-alone objects, as such, are conventionally that which is in spa...
If you’d said representations of objects, as phenomena, I would have agreed, but that’s still only half of it. As far as being parsimonious.....ehhhh,...
Ok, fine. Artificial distinction because I was speaking euphemistically. We aren’t mathematical, exactly. Instead, because we do all those things you ...
Agreed, and is an extension of Kant's argument by which Descartes’ thesis is deemed “problematic idealism”, in which “existence” as a predicate is at ...
Interesting article. You are more well-versed than I, so I’m not about to bore you to tears with stuff you already know, or infuse you with metaphysic...
There is an argument that says the world must be ordered, for the simple reason our understanding is very seldom in conflict with it. With that being ...
(sidelong glances)......who, me???? Nahhh......no formal training. I couldn’t sit still long enough for the superfluous stuff. Plus, there was the.......
Actually.....that’s not half bad, gathered from the “about the book” section. Most of it is within, or amendable to, my metaphysical disposition. On t...
Yeah...about that. Theses days, I got all kinds of time, but I seem to have lost a great deal of interest. So, yep, got time, but maybe not inclinatio...
Hmmm.....I don’t know Barth. Still, for me at least, “most influential” isn’t going to be a book anyway, but a “most influential” book isn’t going to ...
I don’t care about that which orders the world either, and I do not have access to it. But I wouldn’t say reason orders the world in the first place, ...
Self-contradictory? If existants require it, but the external world doesn’t have it.....how does an external thing meet its own requirements? ————- Ag...
A reader, or, start from scratch, never mind the title: “Cartesian Meditations”, 1931. You probably don’t need to start from the beginning, as I did, ...
Which is fine, in the General Grand Scheme of Things. But then....what would consciousness be? In the Reduced Critical Scheme of Things, where only on...
Over there: BOOOO!!!!....another damned Kantian. Spouting like, super, like, you know, old-guy stuff, nobody really understood to begin with, and ther...
Sure, because it wasn’t you that measured. This is the quantum elaboration derived from the metaphysical truism....only experience is empirical knowle...
Plus side: Agreed. From somebody else’s observation of my behavior if I’m in pain......it is possible I can project a behavior directly inconsistent w...
I asked how to know a mental state, such that it couldn’t be anything else. But you referred me to experience. Am I to infer that the only thing a men...
Depends on whose T.I. you’re talking about. Won’t be Kant's, because..... “...My chief aim in this work has been thoroughness; and I make bold to say ...
I don’t think so, but it’s fine if you do. Hell.....I don’t even know what a mental state actually is. How would I know it, such that it couldn’t be a...
Probably not, considering..... “...The whole actual, that is, active world is determined as such through the understanding, and apart from it is nothi...
Absolutely. Making no bones about it. I never said anything like that. Never mentioned a mental state. That’s a knowledge claim, and I’m showing that ...
“....all causation, that is to say, all matter, or the whole of reality, is only for the understanding, through the understanding, and in the understa...
Heck no. That didn’t bother me. I’m just not agreeing with what you said (it very much is indirect realism, and the body is in no way representation o...
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