HA!!! True dat, amigo. Yeah...the bane of idealism, even Kant’s: seemings. Can’t empirically prove ‘em, can’t rationally get rid of ‘em. Nature of the...
Well, ya know.....as with any theory, it all depends on one’s initial position. Used to be, pre-Enlightenment, either top-down, in that the external h...
So that’s your notion of what constitutes subjectivism, such that Kant is a proponent of it? Are we then to say any rational being is a subjectivist? ...
Because we are forced to admit the impossible. In the human cognitive system, for every conception, the negation of it is given immediately. It follow...
No, he is not, at least insofar as he undermines the objective. He undermines pure reason’s, and thereby the transcendental subject’s, proclivity for ...
Exactly, and of which there are but two members of such “environment”......space and time. The Kantian “an sich” of the full “ding an sich“, is that w...
Are you in agreement with Putnam and Husserl, re: the representational human cognitive system, or are you using them just as some informational respon...
Oh fercrissakes!!! For any private moral consideration whatsoever, if the state of it is supposed, the conditions for the state of it is necessarily p...
Ever one but not the other? Ever one before the other? What if “we” do not analyze, but it is only each “I” that does? Therein, perhaps, lay the trans...
My sentiments as well. Has there ever been an occassion, in the everyday course of your private rational machinations generally, you ever said to and ...
Yeah.....about that: all from THN 3.1.1, 1739...... “....It would be tedious to repeat all the arguments, by which I have prov’d, that reason is perfe...
How else to answer his own questions, then to have the conditions for it already resident within himself? Yes, but that is not the same as becoming in...
That I am not physical, is true, but it isn’t true because I think. ————- To be perceived implies the use of the senses. “I” am never available to any...
“A then C” implies change, but “not-A” carries no implication of change. “‘B’ is ‘A then C’” doesn’t seem to hold the same truth value as “‘B’ is ‘not...
The human cognitive system is inherently complementary, so your intrinsic/extrinsic condition is a valid representation. Nevertheless, I think that fr...
....only to slow the ship, or veer it from its plotted course. Kant didn’t treat of phenomena beyond undetermined representation, because he didn’t ha...
I understand you yourself have used the Pinkard reference as an indirect source for the quoted passage, so the Prussian Academy pagination system won’...
My point is that it doesn’t. The common rejoinder is, well, hell, dude, if you reject fanaticism, you’re automatically an advocate of anti-fanaticism....
Any conception can be rejected merely by re-thinking the conditions for it. While re-thinking is the exchange of conceptual validity, which is an enta...
All inquiries are subsumed under metaphysics, for the excruciatingly simple reason that it is humans doing the work. The sciences may describe the con...
The “stop baiting” warning should carry over here. Would it set a record, that the same group of children are responsible for the closing of two separ...
Close enough. We’re saying about the same thing. I made a mistake, nonetheless, in that judgements don’t have truth values, as such. They stand, a pos...
In that case, all we’re doing is exchanging the general form of the judgement, with particular matter that can be used to verify or falsify it. We are...
No intuitions, at any level? Yes, there are, at the empirical level. The sensible level, of real things, represented in us as phenomena. There is no k...
What I think: All empirical judgements are intuitive, hence contingent; all a priori judgements are discursive, hence necessary. Knowledge from intuit...
....which rejects a priori judgements. ...which is necessarily an a priori judgement. ——————- People do think of it that way. But here, in the section...
Yeah, a TOE usually implies physical properties, whereas you stipulated a theory sufficient for explaining how one could be “truly self-aware”. I only...
Descartes’ proof took the form of truth insofar as its negation is impossible. Technically, he attained apodeictic certainty under very strict conditi...
Can it be said that to be truly self-aware means to recognize, itemize, hence understand the necessary grounds of one’s mental activities? And can it ...
Good on ya!!! You got awarded a “reasonably coherent”. The standard human representational cognitive system. Some can’t live with it, nobody can’t kil...
Yeah, but that presupposes an interest, and at my age....and my seriously ingrained predispositions....is solely lacking. But, on the other hand, I wo...
No, it isn’t important at all: “...If we confine the application of the theory to the case where the gravitational fields can be regarded as being wea...
YEA!!!! Glad you see things my way. Now....lets you and me knock some sense into the rest of the world....... ————— Annnnnddd......that shot our wonde...
Perhaps consciousness is only as convoluted as the myriad of metaphysical systems under which it is viewed. Favor a system, find consciousness in it, ...
Understood. Yep, seems that way. If negation is always required for thought, but there is a way out, such that negations are not always required, then...
Relevancy is a judgement, dependent solely on understanding. You find irrelevancy in the questions I ask, not from the understanding from which they a...
Yeah.....no I’m not going to do that. And there’s your sufficient reason for claiming “if you’ve never tried you’ll never know”, which is the most pat...
Ok. I understand that clarity. Thanks. ————— Can I say that reduces to....Relaxing (...) fixations on thinking (...) by meditating on paying attention...
Pretty good synopsis, I must say. There are some fundamental contentions, but they don’t detract from the general picture, and certainly wouldn’t matt...
My lack of experience causes me to ask....what is being exercised, and that exercised mystically? My experience, on the other hand, mandates that if t...
So it must be possible that the intrinsic human complementary system......isn’t? Which is to say, it must be possible that for every single thought, e...
“...We never can imagine or make a representation to ourselves of the non-existence of space, though we may easily enough think that no objects are fo...
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