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Those guys.....deserving of little mention and even less respect. “...For although education may furnish, and, as it were, engraft upon a limited unde...
June 18, 2021 at 15:24
In general, yes. How amazing, a.k.a., fantasmagorically convoluted, is it, that because some sufficient neural network is not yet enabled, we are perm...
June 18, 2021 at 15:01
Again, the dualist will admonish against claims regarding insight into ourselves, for which there is a plethora of justifiable speculation, in juxtapo...
June 18, 2021 at 13:56
Excellent commentary. If I may...... .....I would ask, can we also say we don’t know what it’s like for our neurons to fire? Assuming, of course, that...
June 18, 2021 at 12:54
That’s Schopenhauer, not Kant. The use of “idea” is an earlier translator’s choice, because “vorstellung” can be and was translated as representation ...
June 18, 2021 at 11:12
All that intro is the groundwork for empirical knowledge, and as groundwork, we are not conscious of its operation. All that happens before conscious ...
June 17, 2021 at 21:42
It was, generally, until Kant, and is still, from some more modern quarters, re: Royce via Hegel. For whatever all that’s worth. I think the bottom li...
June 17, 2021 at 16:00
Odd, isn’t it, that realism is complementary, but idealism is not? If a thing is thought to be real, it cannot at the same time be thought unreal; it ...
June 17, 2021 at 13:31
I agree philosophy is unavoidable.
June 16, 2021 at 23:13
Ok. Thanks. While I hold with an inherent dualism with respect to human cognition, and primacy of reason rather than mind, I think T.I already contain...
June 16, 2021 at 23:07
Question: what do you think belongs to epistemic idealism, that isn’t already included in transcendental idealism? If it was, it must be conditioned, ...
June 16, 2021 at 14:18
What is it, then, that is at least sufficient to cause the unavoidedness of philosophy? Seems to me if philosophy remains unavoidable, it is necessari...
June 16, 2021 at 12:22
What’s a proper dialectician to do, with so little to work with. Place has become a farging metaphysical kindergarten lately, I swear.
June 15, 2021 at 23:15
Essence of how we think. But that aside, it’s always been my contention that fundamentally, humans think in images and feelings. Tough sell, though, t...
June 13, 2021 at 19:42
For any situation calling for an immediate moral judgement on your part, what......you gonna query an expert? Nahhhh......I suspect you’d agree you’re...
June 12, 2021 at 21:54
Maybe this is why morality is a philosophy, and ethics is a science, in that morals can have no empirical principles whatsoever, while ethics is in fa...
June 12, 2021 at 12:44
One notion by which ethics differs conceptually from morality: “....Natural and moral philosophy, on the contrary, can each have their empirical part,...
June 12, 2021 at 12:07
Good.
June 12, 2021 at 11:06
It’s known colloquially as the “Copernican Revolution”, although Kant never called it that. It’s found in the preface to the second edition of the fir...
June 12, 2021 at 10:57
That settles it. I guessed wrong, I didn’t get it, which just goes to show....you’re way too smart for me.
June 10, 2021 at 20:02
Two things, both of which have been covered in these comments: One thing..... Your diagram represents a given present, called “0”, initiating a regres...
June 10, 2021 at 10:27
Agreed. I don’t care about time in and of itself. That which it conditions, or is the condition for, interests me. To everyone, I would think. There h...
June 09, 2021 at 20:28
Stuff like this: ———— It wasn’t Popper’s, it was Kant’s. And it wasn’t a challenge as much as a misunderstanding by the thread’s author, of the origin...
June 09, 2021 at 10:37
This is going on, and it is what the fighting’s all about, as my ol’ buddy Roger Waters would have you know. Misplaced concreteness writ large, and I’...
June 08, 2021 at 14:52
Good. Better. My vote for Best......maybe we cannot find satisfying resolutions until we first do something with our metaphysics. All I’ve contended h...
June 08, 2021 at 13:33
Ahhhh....ok, then. A symbolic proof. Thing is....that little squiggly thing at each end of the representational dotted line segment presupposes the ve...
June 08, 2021 at 11:25
That’s not an infinite line. You must have known that, so what did you think you actually proved?
June 07, 2021 at 22:26
Dream. What consciousness does when it plays with itself.
June 06, 2021 at 20:53
Again....forward vs backward. The infinite series of negative integers doesn’t end with -1, it begins with it. The smallest negative integer is -1, in...
June 06, 2021 at 16:22
Take care. Lot’s of edits here. Depending on when your response begins, in relation to my final edit. Ever onward...... Kant is working onward, you ar...
June 06, 2021 at 12:42
Man, this hypothetical’s got a farging mind of its own donnit? Seems “up to the present” makes an appearance in this current iteration, which changes ...
June 04, 2021 at 21:57
That is how I would define it, but I didn’t use “past” in my statement. You transcribed the term into it. ———- Hence, the antithesis. Or in your case,...
June 04, 2021 at 18:37
Yeah, my bad. I saw it, but couldn’t fix it without starting over. Compromised between making an effort and taking the heat.
June 03, 2021 at 09:36
Didn’t I do exactly that? Dunno what else you want. ————— If the infinite is an adjective as you say, — Mww you are using it as a noun. You used it as...
June 02, 2021 at 23:12
I diverge from Kant here, and adjoin Schopenhauer, re: the world as “will and representation”, in that I consider the world to be the immediate unity ...
June 02, 2021 at 22:50
Make of these what you will: “...A quantity is infinite, if a greater than itself cannot possibly exist....” “...The true (transcendental) conception ...
June 02, 2021 at 15:48
I will disagree. There is one way to think of infinity, and another different way to think of the infinite. Infinity is its own thing; all that is inf...
June 02, 2021 at 13:08
Limits indicates a spatial boundary. Witnessing indicates observation. To witness an object from outside its limits merely indicates observing the obj...
June 02, 2021 at 12:57
The world is a phenomenon, an object of experience, now that we’ve witnessed it in its entirety from outside its limits; the universe is not. If the u...
June 01, 2021 at 23:26
I said that the world exists and therefore has a necessary origin in time, is a tautology, a analytic truth.
June 01, 2021 at 21:42
I’m not supporting the proposition, but merely stating it. The solutions to the field equations support it, which are not subject/copula/predicate pro...
June 01, 2021 at 21:02
Evidence that the universe is finitely existent in the past is provided by the mathematically logical necessity of singularities. If singularities are...
June 01, 2021 at 17:15
That’s fine; it doesn’t have to be explicit to you. I said with respect to Kant reflected in Popper, in which there is no 2.???. That the world exists...
June 01, 2021 at 15:26
Negative integers have a necessary originating condition, so arriving at -3 is not impossible. The totality of the series of integers is infinite, but...
June 01, 2021 at 14:01
Ok. Thanks.
June 01, 2021 at 09:47
You did specify the field, in your response to . But all that does is presuppose that to which the field belongs, but says nothing about what that ent...
May 31, 2021 at 16:05
Yeah......and? I don’t care what the occipital lobe is doing. When I close my eyes I know why I can’t see.
May 31, 2021 at 12:05
Nahhhh. You “took up arms in a sea of troubles” so up to you to suffer the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”. Still, it would seem you had you...
May 31, 2021 at 11:32
You were heading in the right direction. Or at least heading in the same direction I already went.
May 31, 2021 at 00:47