Except you aren’t at the fundamental level, obviously, because my assertion presupposes knowledge already acquired. Your rejoinder is even more absurd...
There is an age-old argument that each rational being has his own philosophy, that by which his intelligence, inclinations and personality in general ...
Point. Worded backwards: identity is the rule, or, as you say, a standing principle by which the determination of the correspondence of properties to ...
Yeah.....and there is no fire alarm system until the horn sounds? Sorta asked for help, or at least showed interest, by inquiring as to method. You’ve...
Agreed. It is a feeling, alongside its complement, pleasure, these both absolute, or, irreducible, in themselves. The other basic part of the overall ...
Inductive, yes, henceforth from the establishment of the rule. The rule is the identity, the reasoning is either deductive in the establishment of the...
Actually, I’m only reserving reason we can know about, to humans. I did say animals may have their own kind of reason, but even if they did, we couldn...
This, for all intents and purposes, is a different question altogether. To this, I would say noumena can be dismissed as dialectical overreach, for th...
True enough, if we were concerned with the notion of identity given by Parmenides, which has to do with one thing in relation to itself. We are, on th...
Horatio here, and all I’m sayin’ is, given gross circularity, that which is derived from it cannot be any more certain then the circularity itself per...
If it wasn’t intelligible, he couldn’t have brought it up. He did, so it is. And he said so. He actually said, under certain conditions, the conceptio...
Just a quick butt-insky here, if you don’t mind. I think it is the case that the average person doesn’t know how it is he knows things. Regularly, a g...
Reason by what standard? If ours, then surely not; we don’t know how our own reason works, assuming there is such a thing that isn’t merely a premise ...
Sneakers and loafers are both shoes, but they are different kinds of shoes. A size 3 shoe is different in degree than a size 11 shoe of the same kind,...
One informs the intellect, the other insults it? Opinion only, of course. Philosopher: I can tell you how I think. Psychologist: I can tell you how yo...
Which is fine, depending on what you mean by constructionist, given that the concept exemplifies the difference between some speculative epistemology ...
I suppose, yeah. He does admit his intention to: “....bequeath a legacy to posterity, in the shape of a system of metaphysics constructed in accordanc...
Where is the remnants of theism in that, necessarily? How is it that such policy would be impossible if not for theism? It isn’t, of course, for such ...
Hmmm....yeah, I can see that. Understanding itself is not constrained with respect to noumena; it is allowed that understanding thinks objects belongi...
Yeah, I got some enlightenment from that; just not enough to rearrange my metaphysical prejudices. This thread is interesting as well, but doesn’t rea...
First, one would need to stipulate where, and in what form, autonomy resides. For instance, in deontological moral philosophy, autonomy can’t be inter...
What Copernicus proposed was indeed about the movability....the motion....of observers relative to a stationary Universe, in opposition to the standin...
First, if it is we seeking an investigative domain, I don’t see how it could be otherwise than it is we who are central to it. De-centralizing our per...
There you have it, folks. Perhaps the greatest thinker since Aristotle, personally responsible for the last real paradigm shift in modern philosophy, ...
Agreed, here is no room for relativism with respect to freedom as a necessary intellectual conception. It is worth remembering “intellectual” just ind...
Hmmm....perhaps. I wonder if Kant knew the word. He certainly maintained the necessity, hence the validity, of causality. The prime intellectual conce...
Does that a lot, doesn't he? It’s not this, it’s not that, get rid of enough of the stuff a thing isn’t, what it is arises as all the more legitimate....
“....That metaphysical science has hitherto remained in so vacillating a state of uncertainty and contradiction, is only to be attributed to the fact ...
Absolutely, at least with respect to freedom as a moral condition, for such is gross disrespect for humanity in general regarding cause, and himself a...
On definitions: fascinating that the third section of part two of “Lectures.....” is mostly definitions, part two establishing the background to which...
Symbolic translation is inherent in the conception, but then, how is the brain/mind informed as to which perception is in play, if the symbol has no c...
With measurably greater Prussian intellectual verbosity of course, that is Kant’s exact closing stipulation in Groundwork. ————- Context helps, maybe:...
This is no different than re-defining terms to refute an argument, rather than using the terms given by the argument and showing some conclusion of th...
Not so much asked on this forum, but one I’ve pondered, and the one I’ve chosen, although admittedly it was originally asked and answered in 1787: “.....
To keep some mysteries a secret is the same as pervasive skepticism over the possibility of relieving ourselves of ignorance of their objects. So, yes...
Long past the age, actually, and, finally. No need for further investigation. Indulgence. Ehhhh....granting the authority of a particular moral philos...
You mean...like that little gem? As far back as the historical record shows, this has always been relative to that. How and in what manner this is rel...
Absolutely. And the greatest caveat is.....in which sense of “appearance” is the world to be taken? Appear as “instill an affective presence”, or, app...
Yep, and just like that, what with mental states being brain states, and the observer problem, physics has to come to grips with what the metaphysicia...
Worthy read, yes, so.....thanks for it. I particularly favor Part III onward, myself. But I have to ask....what does the paper say to you? You are his...
OK, thanks. I’d think differently about only two things, for sure, the remainder being nonetheless informative. Nahhhh....he would have called them tr...
All good. Realist with respect to universals.....universals are real? In which sense? What kind of real? I’m not sure what I think about them, so........
Hmmmm.....Ol’ Rene was right after all; there is a demon. What else but a demon would be so callous to send me a thought wave manifesting in me as thi...
I saw where you mentioned him elsewhere, but hadn’t seen for myself until this. Good stuff, by which I mean....it meets with my unabashedly entrenched...
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