It pains me greatly to admit I no longer have the acuity, and perhaps not even the time, to absorb first order critical philosophy. It’s like….all I a...
“….If, then, we learn nothing more by this critical examination than what we should have practised in the merely empirical use of the understanding, w...
Doesn’t matter what they are; our intelligence tells us how they will be for us. I don’t favor that position. I agree that our perception gives us dir...
Agreed. So what mediates between the external reality in perception, to empirical knowledge in experience, if not the intelligence directly affected b...
As do I. I have no reason yet, to think they are not, allowing for differences in experience. Or, they may seem to have the same structure, because th...
If the object IS the intuition, what use would pure a priori intuitions themselves, have? The object is not the sensory intuition, but only the occass...
…then it becomes rather difficult to explain knowing things. Yes, the only proofs, the checks and balances, for the sense we make of things, resides i...
Do you see the difference in that, and this: the world of my cognition. The empirical world you are now cognizing must be the same world I am now cogn...
Yeah, yeah, I know. Those gawdamn language games, right? All a guy’s gotta do is open his mouth and he’s stuck in one. Or, what’s worse, a guy opens h...
Ahhhh, gotcha. Kant’s T.I. does just that, to my understanding anyway. As in his statement that the proud name of ontology must give place to the mode...
I was rather thinking the mere discussion of presupposed existential reality was Hume-ian, which may be considered half-Kantian. Only the subject, by ...
Personally, I’d be inclined to do that, in that for Kant, sensuous physiology is foundational to reality, while, as you say, human intelligence, by wh...
If I may, with apologies to , the gist of the argument resides in the fact nothing comes to the human intellect already named, and from that comes the...
Not too sure what form the problem is supposed as having, but at first glance: So if the ordered world of experience arises from the interaction betwe...
If it is impossible to inhibit all reasons, is there a single reason, or a manifold of reasons under a particular rubric, necessary in itself, to caus...
No, I think the definition implies one can desire in accordance with whatever idea crosses his mind, but that desire doesn’t mean he has the capacity ...
Desire: in general, a subject's capacity to become, by means of his ideas, the cause of the actual existence of the objects of those ideas. A related ...
I think not, insofar as that situation whereby a choice MUST be made contradicts the fundamental idea of choice itself. MUST choose. The impossibility...
In the first, I am to suppose there is a movable object. In the second I am to suppose the said movable object is sensate intuition and concepts. Whic...
The lament, “no clear legal title sufficient to justify their employment, being obtainable from experience or reason”, was a slam on Hume, who posited...
“….That metaphysics leads to divinity is not an accident of history but is intrinsic to the very enterprise of metaphysics…” (Link, intro., lower pg 3...
I was hoping, by my mention of shoe-tying and book-reading, you might note that my position has always been that humans generally think in images. If ...
Perhaps, depending on context, but I’m claiming the irreducible case, hence regardless of context, is Nature. Language relations with the world presup...
Sure. Everydayman won’t have a problem with that, but the philosopher might. While it is necessarily the case, e.g., “Neytiri”, is subjected to the ex...
The opinion in question is relational, re: what I see is what exits, and it is apodeitically true, from the LNC. But that is not to say what I see is ...
Are we mistaking the description of a system, for its operation? Kant is “talking” about his own idea of what’s happening when the human animal uses h...
First was….. ….second was…. Except Kant’s is a speculative metaphysic, in which the transcendental philosophy constructed to account for it, may not p...
That opinion, while apodeitically certain, again, insofar as its negation is a contradiction, re: what I see is not what exists, or, what I see does n...
You asked for a defense of a strictly metaphysical condition, re: the mind-independence of reality, which cannot be justified without sufficient crite...
I have no problem at least holding to a mind-independent view or notion or idea, of reality, given a particular set of presuppositions, those in turn ...
As did Penrose/Hameroff , “Orch OR”, 1994. Rebutted, or not depending on who’s commenting, in Tegmark, 2000; Also by Churchill, the female edition, 19...
Page two: Po-TA-toe, po-TAH-toe. Anything deduced is a deduction. They are deduced transcendentally by pure reason; they are transcendental deductions...
CPR doesn’t treat of empirical ontology; it is a purely epistemological thesis, from a metaphysical perspective. What…..not a fan of freedom as suffic...
That phenomena must meet the criteria of the categories doesn’t exhaust understanding, it enables the manifold of conceptions understanding possesses ...
Conceived in thought. I don’t know what that means. There are so many forms of pure a priori cognitions, or so many dissimilar applications of them, I...
Not all thought; thought determined from sensibility only, related to appearances. The categories do not have anything to do with pure a priori cognit...
Isn’t there only one point of view, when examining, scientifically? If there was one, it’s that the subject, having always been first and foremost, is...
I meant the contradiction to refer to examining from outside. No examination by a human is ever done from the outside, but always and only from the in...
Oh. My bad. I took your “some matter” as a misprint, changed it to “some manner”. Concepts involved in some matter is rather ambiguous, wherein lay my...
Concepts involved in some manner or other are found in every aspect of Kantian critique. Not all thinking for anybody is synthetic, re: principles. Bu...
If there is a thing having reasonable status by my understanding of it, which implies a non-contradictory judgement, why would I invite doubt to come ...
Just a quick fly-by here: Surely you realize the contradiction. To do anything scientifically is merely to do something in a certain way, but no matte...
That’s all I meant to say, in negating the claim the senses can be doubted. Which would be a more appropriate word, do you think? And, to what would t...
Given that substance dualism immediately supposes Descartes’ “First Principles…for philosophizing in an orderly way”, 1644, is found the definitions b...
Even if that were the case, isn’t it necessarily presupposed there is an object to identify, correctly or otherwise? If so, then deny that very same n...
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