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I emphasize “metaphysically speaking”, for none of the following has any affect on Everydayman, who doesn’t know, and cares even less, about any of it...

Tim didn’t quote absolute presuppositions; they were explicitly stated by the author as metaphysical propositions, and as such, can have truth value. ...

We don’t think in terms the scientists use to tell us how we think. You’re asking a stonemason how he would plumb a bidet when all he knows how to use...

Cool. Thanks.

Little difference in ordinary parlance, yes. But what difference there is, speaks volumes: the first says “the fact of believing....” and the second s...

Pretty much, yeah. Kant bottom up construction, Collingwood top down analysis. ————- As far as physics is concerned, and the notion that his presuppos...

More fundamental only as in less rigorous. Ehhh....not going to get into the speculative subtleties explicit therein. Too long, too deep and not relev...

Hey.....no fair confusing me, dammit!!! I had to go back through all my comments to see if I indicated absolute presuppositions were not presupposed, ...

Yes, but these are relative presuppositions, and according to Collingwood, may serve as answers to previous question, re: Prop 5. Answers must be subj...

Because metaphysics is the science of thought, and any science is grounded by basic principles, axioms or conditions. The best answer is the reduction...

Agreed, and sustained in Prop. 5, “absolute presuppositions are not propositions”, and if not a proposition, cannot be considered in propositional for...

If we allow a supposition to be a belief, which is not contradictory, then from mere language we see a pre-supposition makes explicit that which has y...

Not going to gang up on you, so I’ll just say I’m surprised you’d consider presuppositions are beliefs, or, as you say later, are truth-apt. Both of t...

Found it, thanks.

Agreed, as far as I give ontology any consideration at all. “..... and the proud name of an ontology which professes to present synthetical cognitions...

“....the metaphysician’s business is not to propound them, but to propound the proposition that this or that of them is presupposed...” These “absolut...

No need, really. Having gained their victory, such theoreticians find precious little profit in venturing into that which for them, would be naught bu...

Would you cite that for me, please? Or something similar? I just want to know what is being used as an unambiguous example of an absolute presuppositi...

True enough. But it doesn’t follow from the general capacity for feeling pain, that individual instances of it are necessarily mutually inclusive.

Dunno if it relates, but you said “metaphysically” and “anyone?”, so....pain is a subjective condition common to humans in general; pain, as the subje...

HA!!! We just finished dinner, which on this fine Saturday night, consists of.....breakfast. Isn’t relevancy a judgement? Or do you just wish to disre...

Oh, I dunno. If one chooses between yours consisting of 4:36 minutes of anecdotal hogwash, and mine consisting of peer-reviewed publications, I guess ...

I trust you’re not considering something so mundane as.....describing a horse in French is just as accurate a description of horses as describing a ho...

Agreed, but not just from experience. I know I will never feel another’s pain merely from sheer logistics, in that the source of pain in another in no...

Agreed. There’s no map of my house, but I know the territory pretty well. Could we say experience is the same as models, representations or whatever y...

As far as the playing of the game is concerned, there are two players if I am playing both colors. The quality of the game isn’t the least affected no...

Close, but not entirely. If I combine a few imagined, private, names in an organized composition, wouldn’t I have created an imagined, private languag...

I guess, sure, but “more or less” is pretty open-ended and “adequate” doesn’t say much. What’s the catch?

Ok. I grant ontology in general, so I guess I don’t have some level of skepticism about it. I’m certainly skeptical that my knowledge of things is com...

True enough, which mandates that if I create a private language, its terms must directly correspond to their respective antecedents. Which they will, ...

Excellent. I haven’t exceeded my intentions.

Soft ontologist I can live with, but you can’t get “anti-realist” from my “empirical realist, certainly”. For me to require “some sort of internal rea...

The easy part, and.....good guess. An empirical realist, certainly, insofar as to deny spacetime reality independent of me, yet necessarily causal in ...

I dunno....a feral cat does the same basic stuff as a regular cat. A feral human, if there could be such a thing, might just be what we’d call uncivil...

I was agreeing with the gist of his comment as it relates to mine. No more, no less. I didn’t see anything in it having to do with equality. I accept ...

Yeah, but.....translatable by who? I don’t need my private language translated, and for somebody else to translate means it isn’t private. I think I c...

I’m not a fan of analytic philosophy in general, and language philosophy in particular, so I’m not going to give an unbiased critique. See Antony Nick...

Funny, though, the academic/peer-reviewed argument is that the PLA is nothing but argument, because there are no principles on which it could be groun...

Oh. Ok. I forgot about that. Exceptions to the rule? Sure we talk to ourselves, but can we without a language given from experience? Or, as you say, i...

Pretty much as I see it, yep. Although I think Banno will reject the claim he creates false dichotomies, in that he is on the record as categorically ...

“....(except for psychology’s insights).....” Ants at a picnic.

No one’s is; everyone does. Perhaps what is native in thought, is images. Locked-in. Like....deaf-mute? Incapacitated somehow? Dunno. If he can’t get ...

Yep. That still presupposes the word, and, implies experience. ———- Could be, if the inventor of the word was the only user of it, in an organized, st...

There shouldn’t be, even within philosophy, which doesn’t give a shit about what is known. Your handy-dandy little formula is mere memory; you musta a...

Your first paragraph contains an existential inconsistency.

If “only perception with nothing behind it” is meant to indicate the non-cognitive aspect of perception, then that is indeed Kant’s primary metaphysic...

Under the assumption a Kantian follows Kant text closely, and given that there are 16 uses of “proves” in CPR, of which three are negative and the res...

It’s your thread, so you get to set the parameters. Perhaps you’ll evoke some interest.

Close enough. “what their own strength shall furnish...” absent all else, I can adapt to the domain which he must answer to. Hobbes doesn’t get the cr...

....all that, and upon finding out what morality is, one might also find another domain to which “getting away with” has power.