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We also have thoughts of objects we’ve never seen, but are still possible to see. To ask if thoughts are emergent properties of brains is the same as ...

Pretty much, yeah. Nothing inherently wrong with our conceptual model, nor the representational expressions for it. All language is ever meant to do i...

Now THAT I might find interesting. Direct me to it? To read, not to argue, promise.

I do see it; I find it, the description, insufficient. It is like describing the construction of a house, but beginning from the second floor. Which i...

It can’t. Just as Montana doesn’t share its highway with Idaho, yet there is a highway common to each.

In Enlightenment transcendental metaphysics, the transcendental ego both names and explains. It cannot, however, itself be explained from within the c...

Wisdom.

Sapere aude

“I wouldn’t know how.”

.....and the name of the commenter.

After a fashion, perhaps. If I succumb to the way Witt wants me to understand my language practice, he will have taken away the “framework” I have alw...

Your common usage definition is fine.

Absolutely; no quibble there. Ehhhh.....maybe one. Perhaps these problems and their solutions are the concern of psychologists.

Yes, we do that. Isn’t it then a matter of what options are available in a concept? If the thought is that there is only one option available in a con...

The answer is in the negation of what you said: there is no belief whatsoever to be held, if there are no reasons whatsoever on which it is constructe...

Has any philosophy ever solved any problems? Far as I think about it, philosophy tries to explain something, and leaves it up to others to determine w...

Common usage. I keep forgetting what constitutes philosophy these days. You are correct in that regard, yes. How can a belief contradict itself? It is...

You know we can imagine anything we like, any time we like? (“....Imagination is the faculty of representing an object even without its presence in in...

Irrespective of the rest of the article, his objection parsed in that piece follows from the explicit Kantian methodology, wherein anything in reality...

I’m working on it. This format makes long posts on different pages, hard to juxtaposition.

.....to which you are quite entitled. Nevertheless, I find nothing you’ve contributed to be sufficient diminution of the components in my adversus dia...

.....except those two, not three for one was repetitive, are precisely examples of a single unit.....one thing to pull, one joke not heard. There may ...

That which is of final value is for all intents and purposes, perfect, or ideal, insofar as no more or other conditions are possible for changing its ...

Yikes. Sorry.....I can’t think of a profitable response to all that.

No.

So.....I get a postcard, and the message is in French, I can either drop it in the circular filing cabinet, or run down to the library and research a ...

I don’t know what that means.

I only thought your basic contention, that all verbal thoughts must always be spoken, is backwards. Which I thought should be....all spoken must first...

Hadn’t intended to get involved with this again, but you gave such a good presentation I figured I’d better contribute to the other side. Doesn’t matt...

If we’re wallowing in trivia, and if the whole thing is not at all even slightly reasonable, doesn't seem like fertile ground for important philosophi...

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying there is no movement as shown by a detector. I don’t know anything about that, except what you just told me. But ev...

I think your basic contention is mistaken. That which seems like internal vocalizing, is still merely thinking, and nothing I think requires speech. I...

Not even a little.

Me, nine days ago: Question: are images part and parcel of human mentality? Witt, awhile ago: What really comes before our mind when we understand a w...

...and I surmise the unspoken part tacitly implies a plurality of subjects expressing the same statement. It remains, nonetheless, that for each subje...

You can say this if you wish, but Descartes covered it as not in accordance with his thesis, in Principles of Philosophy, Pt 1, Sec 9. To say “I doubt...

And? Not....or? For a, re: singular, statement?

My compliments; a fine sample of proper philosophizing, these last few pages. I could continue to argue almost all of it, but to more spoil your effor...

Isn’t that reducible to experience? If context stands for the the myriad distinguishable opportunities for using a concept, doesn’t that presupposes t...

“Completely” wouldn’t be a bit too far, if there is a time frame earlier than, or in addition to, learning and joining society. It seems to me, that i...

Ok. I’ll wait. ———— No. I discovered where you got your writing style. With respect to content, however, there is this, which I found enlightening, af...

I don’t mind disagreements with my words. They should actually be my words, though. No need to rectify it; just letting the world know I committed no ...

Yours doesn't consider the implications in mine. ————- Big deal. That does absolutely nothing to explain the reality that geocentrism was the standard...

Stubborn bunch, aye. They’ve done the heavy lifting, so perhaps have earned the right. I’m familiar with the essay. What I found quite telling about i...

Then you may want to ask yourself how it came to be, that it was only one of the millions, that changed the science for the millions. Actually, it was...

All good and well said. If anything, I might take exception to your statement with this: “....Whether now the Judgement, which in the order of our cog...

It is the entire raison d’etre of speculative epistemological theory, that which satisfies the standard human interest for justifying the condition of...

Not your fault, for.... .....it is just like that.

So be it. To strike out is to show one should stick to his own game.

I bow to your esteemed Admiral-ness. I have not the range nor caliber for such registry. I might request you trounce that pretentious Kantian wannabe ...