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Yep. Better hope so, especially if you’re on an intercept course with one. ————— The idea that reason doesn’t get you there faster is quite likely wha...
December 27, 2020 at 20:54
Which is to say.....right tool for the right job (?)
December 27, 2020 at 16:46
Hey....... One of my very favorite opening salvos in philosophical discourse, Hylas to Philonous: “....I was considering the odd fate of those men who...
December 27, 2020 at 15:05
Chomsky??? Really. Boys and girls.....here’s proof of what not to do if you want to be understood in your speech acts. Now, please, don’t bother askin...
December 27, 2020 at 13:38
Agreed, but I submit the formal predicate logic they use to deconstruct thought, is not the Aristotelian syllogistic propositional logic used to const...
December 27, 2020 at 00:16
What need does an example serve, when the truth of a proposition lays in the fact the negation of it is impossible. If a proposition must be either tr...
December 27, 2020 at 00:04
Truth be told, the root is in language use itself, and the supremacy I think falsely allotted to it. Case in point.....it may be that the world is tha...
December 26, 2020 at 23:27
I know.
December 26, 2020 at 20:40
Agreed, that this can be both dangerous and foolish. Is this a general cautionary statement, or have you witnessed an occasion where such pretension i...
December 26, 2020 at 16:08
I think there’s some confusion here, things aren’t relating to each other. I was talking about my gripe with analytic philosophy, in that it answers q...
December 26, 2020 at 12:54
Ehhhh.....none of that interests me.
December 25, 2020 at 19:27
Yeah, I’m fine with that brief. Personally, I would then ask, if science solves the hard problem by relating the physical mechanisms of brain to the m...
December 25, 2020 at 18:26
No. 10m separation identifies an unoccupied space, but does not identify the objects the unoccupied space presupposes. No definition of identity is re...
December 25, 2020 at 12:07
True, but it does nonetheless. The significance being, the setting of limits of human knowledge, the limits being, not the world, but ourselves. It do...
December 25, 2020 at 00:58
Interesting read here, in that they may be kindasorta equally difficult problems, but they are certainly not the same problem: http://cogprints.org/16...
December 24, 2020 at 14:38
So how many scientific laws should we need in order to understand the philosophically pure general law “all objects are extended in space”? Science: r...
December 24, 2020 at 12:42
Yeah, the subtleties and intricacies that make it so are usually overlooked, or dismissed outright, by the common sense realist opposition, because th...
December 23, 2020 at 19:17
No problem for me at least. Just imagine no recording or measuring of change.
December 23, 2020 at 18:03
I’ve always been under the impression that’s exactly the opposite of what “as it is” implies, which technically expands to “as it is in itself”. Becau...
December 23, 2020 at 11:43
Nothing you’ve said is sufficient to prove a mistake. Not to say there isn’t one, but nothing this comment is in response to, serves the purpose of de...
December 22, 2020 at 14:02
What the world was before us is different from what the world is with us, because of us. That does not say anything about what the world depends on. W...
December 19, 2020 at 23:31
That actually is quite interesting. The world as it is does not necessarily imply observation of it. Just sitting there, all by itself, whilin’ away t...
December 19, 2020 at 18:32
Agreed, atomism was the extent of empirical reducibility, the unconditioned having far broader extent than mere individual substance. Yep.....just lik...
December 19, 2020 at 12:20
In philosophical discourse.....not that I know of. But then, I don’t hold a lot of respect for current philosophical discourse anyway, so the idea mig...
December 19, 2020 at 01:29
Not so much in support of capital T truth, which I hold as impossible both from inductive inference and the limitations of our own system of knowledge...
December 18, 2020 at 13:43
The conscious and otherwise rational human thinks constantly, and reason is thinking in accordance with rules. Except for pure reflex or sheer acciden...
December 17, 2020 at 13:56
Very old-fashioned view indeed. Which just goes to show they got the basics put down right early on. No matter what the human learns about, the intern...
December 17, 2020 at 11:46
You mean from your “Mechanics.....” account as it stood three years ago? Evolution of thought is not unusual of course, but B.) of mine, above, is fro...
December 16, 2020 at 19:20
Yeah....don’t need no thinkin’ no mo’. Just listen to what yer tol’...poof...snow is white.
December 15, 2020 at 23:12
A.) B.) I’ve examined that part of your corpus that appeared interesting to me. Are mental correlations mental activities, and do mental activities re...
December 14, 2020 at 20:33
None of that has to do with the Kantian philosophy pertaining to consciousness, even if it does have correlations to Kantian philosophy pertaining to ...
December 13, 2020 at 22:47
Ok.
December 13, 2020 at 21:41
Because it’s Schopenhauer, it is classified as transcendental, which is a metaphysical rendering. And it isn’t a concept of his will, but his concept ...
December 13, 2020 at 21:13
The subjectivity being understood as an object, is the conception of subjectivity in general, the distance, as you say, I must try to take. It isn’t m...
December 13, 2020 at 18:23
No, I do not. There might be an apple give-away that day. He might wish to piss off his boss. While I may need to understand monetary exchange is the ...
December 13, 2020 at 15:29
Correct, and its name is intuition. Correct, there is no need to fully report on an experience, but only the need to report enough to demonstrate unde...
December 13, 2020 at 15:19
Sure, but all those are amendments, qualifiers, if you will. Changing the conditions. You’re not wrong, just that such amendments are inadmissible wit...
December 13, 2020 at 15:08
Yes. Look to the use of the stuff of categories in order to do things. In your view opposed to this, in what manner do you come up with numbers, witho...
December 13, 2020 at 15:02
Good. Now we can remove the ghost of anthropomorphism from the dialectic. I just needed assurance, if not actual verification, so....thanks for that. ...
December 13, 2020 at 14:33
Us and our accounts are not the dichotomy, they are the same thing, in that the account is contained in us. An account is, after all, merely a judgeme...
December 13, 2020 at 14:17
True enough, but in context, the discussion concerns not people in general but a person in particular, in relation to another person in particular, wi...
December 13, 2020 at 13:41
Ok. Thanks. See top of pg 83 for context.
December 13, 2020 at 01:37
How are those two assertions not contradictory? —————— I don’t think they play a role in our experiences, but necessarily play a role in the expressio...
December 13, 2020 at 00:04
Can’t they be subjects or objects of propositions, hence contents of them? Or can propositions not have content? Yes, always, with the caveat that cor...
December 12, 2020 at 22:43
Not to the grocer, it isn’t. For you, the grocer is an object and his subjectivity is irrelevant to you. For the grocer, you are the object and your s...
December 12, 2020 at 22:35
Oh no you don’t. Check it out:. “The words you hear....” are every bit the same empirical perception as the itch, or the huge car. The sound of words,...
December 12, 2020 at 21:52
Oh my. The goalposts went from the end zone clear out to the farging parking lot!! ————— As well you shouldn’t; not everything does. No empirical stuf...
December 12, 2020 at 21:23
Ahhh....so if we can’t talk about some things we can’t talk about anything? Besides, there can be talk about.....has been for millennia.....the subjec...
December 12, 2020 at 20:58
Irreducibly, yes. But not practically. We operate in terms of biological machinery, but we don’t think or talk in those terms.
December 12, 2020 at 20:48
Nope, he doesn’t think that.
December 12, 2020 at 20:46