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Again.....there most obviously is stuff not between the ears. Nobody ever said all stuff was between the ears, not even ol’ Bishop Berkeley. It is poi...

Of course it isn’t, only. But the ground of it, the beginnings, the source, the construction of it, are, and are only. It’s the same hole everybody’s ...

....and language itself can be quined away from the necessities of evolution, but maybe not the accidental convenience of it. Dunno, I’m not much of a...

An observer is so from his own perceptions; that which is inaccessible to an observer indicates that which is unperceivable by him. All perception is ...

Generally speaking, sure. Precious little need for analytic or speculative philosophy fulfilling a grocery list. If life in general was only that mund...

HA!!! You said all we needed was a topic, I tossed around stuff like space and time, mind/body. I never thought of the subjective/objective dichotomy....

I’d be interested in how someone else might develop that issue, but I’m of the mind beliefs are far too subjective to attribute to any intelligence ot...

Not at what you mentioned, no. Just regarding our conversations.

Yep, for even without all the -isms and -ists so prevalent these days, that kind of naive rationality cannot explain how it is we don’t have immediate...

Absolutely. And you’re the only current participant that even attempts an exposition of some form of the discipline, even if it’s your own personal cr...

We know beliefs to mean a certain something, and we come by them is some certain way. If cats don’t come by their beliefs in the same way, what right ...

Oh, ok. Yes, that’s the Kantian representational system. Nowadays folks tend to think what we perceive is just the way things really are.

I’m game. You’re inclined to more modern thought than I, so....there is that.

You lost me. Nobody’s a Kantian because that’s what they do, or that’s what he did?

Hardly anyone is.

‘S ok. Take refuge in my having quined qualia years ago. In principle anyway, insofar as nothing with which qualia is supposed to be concerned, hasn’t...

What can it really mean to detect, when knowledge of having doubted is given immediately from it. It is impossible to doubt without doubt being known ...

Correct, but surety, the quality, has a definite relation to its object. I’m suggesting the quality of non-personal experiences in general, because th...

Yes. E-lusive, not IL-usive. Good catch. Determination by virtue of existential dependency doesn’t say what the dependency is. If I knew what the some...

Never mind. Your post was blank for 3 hours, now it isn’t. My response no longer applies.

Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends. We’re so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.

I’m guessing “going inner” wasn’t a typo.......was it?

Point: .......Counterpoint: I’m not sure we have the warrant for that. Point sustained: .......Counterpoint sustained: where is the surety of what the...

You: Me, page 1: Qualia....a metaphysical invention by those to whom “representation” doesn’t say enough, by means of that which is itself a represent...

Hypothetically, so pre-theoretical. Does it matter what is the cat is drinking? Is it the same to say, cats can have a conscious experience of drinkin...

That’s looks like I felt, after analyzing entries on page 72.

Agreed, in principle. The picture....the mental image as I use “picture”......corresponds to the world, such image I would call intuition, but the rem...

Yeah....I was wondering which of us would break the dialectical ice. I will begin by saying for the record, you are soooo close in your reasoning, to ...

You invoke consciousness, I invoke reason. The same intrinsic circularity is patently inevitable. Nature of the beast.

The GR should never be claimed, logically, as a universal law; a rule is never a law nor universal. It isn’t, for good reason, called the golden law. ...

The more times I read all this stuff, the closer I get to what you’re trying to say. So, yeah, the juxtaposition isn’t of the concepts in each sentenc...

I can grant the sentence is being used as an uncontested fact, but if it is not be contested, refuted or interpreted asks the question....why did he s...

This makes W’s grammar/reasoning synonymy more apparent, in that my philosophical perspective attributes to acting pure practical reasoning, and attri...

So grammar is the science of application of concepts? Can we say that? If concepts have a plurality of meanings, grammar is the method for picking the...

Technically, Hegelian would be triadic, but my dyadic thesis/antithesis is just me philosophizing in Kantianese.

Understood. I suppose that might work for one who hasn’t an entrenched viewpoint already. It may also work, even for him, if OLP made enough sense to ...

I meant it as indicating the opening statement as affirmation, in accordance with continental dialectical reasoning, re: German idealists in general. ...

Point/counterpoint, and rhetorically speaking........ If laws constrain the universe, it should be possible the laws constrained the universe in such ...

All taken from the quoted passage: Thesis: Antithesis: What does not actually happen? I ask a guy to assign meaning to a language he doesn’t understan...

Absolutely, but this proposition is, for all intents and purposes, tautological, for it presupposes a certain knowledge given from a particular experi...

Drive-by thread posting. Gotta love ‘em, huh? Fine....I’ll say it: moral law never was, nor could ever be, fait accompli. The notion of moral law stan...

So.....where do we start, in trying to discern what such law is?

Circumstance, usually. And judgement with respect to whatever the circumstance happens to be. Action itself is a posteriori, that is, empirically give...

Oh yeah!?!? Well....(sputterchokegasp).....your definitions of consciousness are all wrong!!! Consciousness: the quality of all my various and sundry ...

Part of, yes. Choosing between two outcomes reduces to cognizing a relation between means and ends. Fishing, say, with worms gives one possible outcom...

Nope. Speculative epistemology holds no proofs. Examples of it......well, there lots of that, from which valid inductive inferences can be drawn.

Because “bad” is relative.

Not really. A command of reason is just a metaphysical precept (Kant calls it a formula), that grounds stuff like duty, respect, self-obligation, the ...

Absolutely. In other words.......be careful what you wish for.

Hey...... Yeah, true, the number depending on the reference literature. Kant himself says there is only one, then goes on to alter it slightly so one ...