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True enough, but there doesn’t need to be, necessarily. Historical precedent makes explicit the human cognitive system is generally self-correcting, s...

Epistemically, to know presupposes that which is knowable, and ontologically, for something to be is for something to be possibly known about. Classic...

Pretty much, yep. It’s what we do, doncha know. Here’s what you just said, in super-fancy speechifyin’, which would have been great for getting univer...

Yes, and that’s the root of metaphysical investigations: the determination of our part in life, which is always and only, a judgement we make in respo...

It isn’t the questions, it’s how they are asked and answered.

Simple. Ask yourself.....how much has a human qua individual rational agent, changed in 300 years? Not his environment, not his knowledge base, not hi...

Shirley you don’t intend that consciousness equate to matter. Perhaps you meant consciousness can be conceptualized as composed of parts, as matter is...

Fair story, except there are occasions we didn’t make happen, but are rather foisted upon us. The weather, flat tires, your mother-in-law’s special di...

Not at all. There are never forbidden questions, only those that don’t have rational answers. Rational answers are those that do not contradict possib...

Ya know......just because we can ask a question, doesn’t mean we should. “....To know what questions we may reasonably propose is in itself a strong e...

What it means: Find favor. Alleviates ill-will. Technically, the inclination to an idea and the judgement made on that inclination, do not conflict wi...

Good. Perhaps, as he says, the power of metaphysics rests in nothing more than.......”I like it”.

A noble attitude, for which I salute you.

True enough, but that isn’t “a different point of view, not a logical one”. What you say here is still a logical point of view.

As is your prerogative. I’d be interested in how you regard the antinomies from other than a logical point of view. Not sure I’d understand, but I’d a...

An antinomy isn’t a proof; it’s a logical argument, a “...dialectical proposition or theorem of pure reason...” “....This method of watching, or rathe...

Indeed. I don’t give a damn WHY there is a universe. That there is something I think of as it, is good enough.

Why...or rather, how....would there be any difference between them, our reality or objective reality? Doesn’t matter what there is under any condition...

Simply put, I guess, mathematics is the science developed by reason out of the category of “quantity”, in response to observations in the world. If th...

We don’t know that they do; we only know they describe the universe in such a way the universe becomes comprehensible to us, strictly given the kind o...

.....all good. The concept of noumena....maybe, yes. Noumena themselves, iff there were such things.....not a chance. Mathematical structures, while a...

Actually, no, he did not, for they are not faulty in the least. An antinomy perfectly exemplifies a case in which pure speculative reason inevitably c...

Not sure what to say about that. If you care to elaborate....that’d be nice. —————— In Kant, morality is a human condition, and as such, there is no n...

And to make it right is to.....what? ————- Man created, sure. Real, immaterial, ok. But existence? That which exists can be phenomena; can time or spa...

Actually, what ought to happen is that which the transcendental conception of freedom grants. So it is easy to say what ought to happen, because we te...

Not sure Kant used those terms together, but I guess a truth derived under transcendental conditions would be a transcendental truth. All that needs b...

By transferring space from the external world to the internal system of reason, Kant removed the need for explaining a real medium for the existence o...

As do I, and the bookkeeping reduces to.....us. Humans..... .....just like that. Assembly presupposes being, which is sufficient reason for why Kant d...

And hidden in that, is the paradigm shift from ontology to epistemology.

You said.... ....to which I responded by saying that to believe events MUST have causes precludes the notion from being a mere belief. If it was a bel...

Yeah, it’s a long ways past where our knowledge of things needs to be. All we need is cause and effect as the bottom line, without regard to the subtl...

Yeah....I used quantifies only because the thread title showed a plurality of single instances. I agree any single law is qualified by whichever princ...

Now we’re getting somewhere. Once a moral principle is employed in making a law it makes it a MORAL law. Once a logical principle is employed in makin...

Agreed, as long as it’s being expressed, “a priori” and “synthetic” confine the expression to certain conditions. And if a judgement, for which no exp...

Ok...the proposition does not derive from pure reason, any proposition being merely an expression derived from antecedent cognitions. That all events ...

We can only know the world as it appears to us, yes. That doesn’t mean the world is as it appears, but only that we have no other way to judge how it ...

There’s a perfect little nutshell if there ever was one, right there. Especially the successive media part, which even the rabid physicalists cannot d...

I wouldn’t agree with that, as much as I would agree Kant thought metaphysical pursuits....wondering, if you will.....culminating in the certainty of ...

You know, from a Kantian point of view, science only tells of a thing, what a human asks. If we don’t know a thing as it is in itself, but only as our...

Substituting, it should be congruent that a representation is not what appears. Substituting again, it should be congruent that representation is not ...

To say I don’t know what it is like to be a bat, but I do know that to be a bat is to be like something....otherwise, for me, there can be nothing in ...

I hope you’re aware that the A249-A254 section from which that quote is taken, was re-written by the author, in the B edition. While it is true he sai...

I answered to the best of my interpretation of your question: No, I would not. It is my philosophical contention that morality is given, as a pure sub...

No, I would not. If what you say is the case, then I am morally destitute for no other reason than I hold no respect for another human. I am no more o...

Surely you’d grant that a virtuous man thwarts his desires for the sake of his precious, better known as self-respect. If the illusion is persuasive e...

True, he can chose his rules. But if he chooses different rules for different situations, without a rule to rule them all, he is hard pressed to assum...

Agreed, and was my point. As for the rest, too anthropological/psychological for me. I prefer my philosophy, and particularly moral theory, separate a...

I rather think Everydayman’s core is pretty tidy, as a rule. It still remains, that the ground for how he acts, in response to "What should I do, now,...

How is that not haphazardly contingent? If there is a way to know what one should do, why is it still a question?

You had my support.....as clandestine as it may have been, tucked away in the back of the room here.....but now I’m having second thoughts. Better you...