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Damned if I know; theoretically, I wouldn’t be able to distinguish one as such, even if he was standing right in front of me. Still, I imagine I would...

First off.....excellent dissertation. Pretty much as I view the human condition as well. That being said, permit me a couple minor caveats, if you wil...

It seems to me to be something like the Kantian dictate, that if the unconditioned is given, so too must every possible condition also be given. To th...

Qualia....a metaphysical invention by those to whom “representation” doesn’t say enough, by means of that which is itself a representation, but attemp...

Context is important, so fortunate to find a workaround for the subscription requirement.

Put the two side-by-side; there’s more than a single point of contention involved here. Strawson, to which Dennett replied: https://web.ics.purdue.edu...

https://www.degruyter.com/california/view/book/9780520907836/10.1525/9780520907836-007.xml?language=en Gotta dig pretty deep to find the notion of a “...

Maybe the same guy that invented the third thing, in order to demote “problem” to mere “inconvenient consequence”.

Failed to prove presupposes the attempt, which Kant had no intention of doing. It is entirely sufficient that the external world be given, as a produc...

The history of philosophizing can be taught; a specific method for philosophizing can be taught. Philosophy itself, re: the system of reasoning based ...

“...It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from all her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge of a few su...

So what would be a good initial idea about the nature of reality, and what form of study would be entailed by it?

Because at least one, and perhaps the most comprehensive, established definition of it, which is a study of the nature of being. I personally see no r...

Absolutely; was never contested. The proposition containing an apodeictic certainty merely expresses the impossibility of its negation, or, to a lesse...

Agreed; no one should doubt the reality of an ontological domain. That which is susceptible to doubt, is apodeitic certain knowledge with respect to i...

Yes, but the question inquires after what I am not, not what I might be. Any rational agency demonstrating a faculty for discursive understanding is a...

That I think a way for an object to be necessarily presupposes the reality of it, which makes explicit my acceptance of the physicalist domain. ————- ...

Ontological conclusions....not so much, other than, yes, there are things. Ontological conclusions about the fundamental way things are? Not a chance;...

Well said, the ramifications being, 1.) intentionality towards others is moot, subsumed under obligation regardless of others, and 2.) morality is the...

From the human perspective.....the only one from which anything comprehensible follows.......whatever ontology entails presupposes the possibility of ...

People are already objects, so why a Step 2? Addition of a mind makes a person no more or less an object. Even if Step 2, because people have minds, w...

Hmmm...I sure did. Beside the point, though, I think, with respect to knowledge. Thanks for the clarification anyway.

....the principle grounding empiricism and rationalism generally; ....the principle grounding objectivism and critical rationalism. If epistemology an...

Reason: the innate capacity of the human cognitive system to generate inferences by means of conceptions. I suppose one gets to choose his own.

I ascribe to reason; I philosophize in accordance with my reason conditioned by a particular philosophy.

I was gifted a Kindle when they first came out, made the typical non-professional evolution from pc to laptop to notebook, finally getting the Kindle ...

And there you have it: a worthy, if oft-forgotten, nutshell.

Thankfully, as far as my commenting at all herein is concerned, Hume now stands alone. Which makes the statement correct. Which ends my involvement.

I can do both, but how about one at a time: “....The will is a kind of causality belonging to living beings in so far as they are rational, and freedo...

Maybe not required, but sufficient? Can we say there is a distinction between the two? And Kant’s position would involve an infinite regress, if he di...

......and therefore not the “accidental causality” of your “Humean-Kantian time sequence by rule”. Which is all I intended to convey, and by which the...

The Kantian sense of causality, which is actually rules sequenced in time, is the empirical sense of it, and does not apply to his moral philosophy: “...

Deconstructing the Analytic Concept of Truth..... “..."What is truth?" The definition of the word truth, to wit, "the accordance of the cognition with...

It goes without saying anything can be criticized if the definitions grounding the criticism are in opposition to the definitions given in that which ...

With respect to “the real self” as noumenal, the definitions are opposed to what Kant himself posits. Briefly, without the backdrop which contextualiz...

False equivalence? Dunno....I’m not much of a logician. I’d like to see those definitions, though, bearing in mind CPR is an epistemological treatise,...

A fallacy is generally an error in logical argument, while equating T.I. with solipsism is merely a gross misunderstanding. Probably shouldn’t try to ...

You just mean if a human is located then consciousness is located, right?

Yes, it might, much the same as, say, rocket engines extend the principle of cause and effect.

Perhaps. But one person’s quibbling can be another person’s dialectical precision. But it doesn’t really matter, insofar as your “I experience somethi...

Oh, dear. Harry, please consider this: cum hoc ergo propter hoc. You and your scribbles. Do you have any idea how BOOOORRRRING that is?!?! Anyway, I’l...

Actually, this is precisely the way Descartes uses “thought”, to wit, from P.P., 1,9: “....I take the word ‘thought’ to cover everything that we are a...

Because one can think a thing....and it is never the case where a thought isn’t of something....but never experience it, thinking and experiencing mus...

Compromise: subsumed under, rather than pertain to? Nonetheless shall I insist on “necessarily”. (Stomps foot...exits stage right) Where would we be w...

A pox...POX, I say....on language philosophers. Now, if you please, excuse me while I indulge in it. Knowledge is not discerned, it is a consequence o...

Absolutely. You have historical precedent for cheering folks for expressing their thoughts, so allow me to forward the sentiment. In the response to i...

Exactly, and that is the rule. Just makes me wonder why we need to even consider questions for which the answers are altogether quite worthless. Prett...

Yeah, I suppose there are cases where IT is the only valid answer, while at the same time not answering anything. But these are the exceptions rather ...

Gives new meaning to the 1965 AM radio hit song, “I fought the law, and the law won...”

What does only IT can or can’t be actually solve?