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Aren’t we all?
August 24, 2020 at 12:50
Agreed. You can’t blast an idea over the centerfield wall. And you can’t call a thing round without the antecedent idea of what a “round” thing must b...
August 24, 2020 at 12:03
Nutshell: the Kantian transcendental is that which is purely a priori. Anything purely a priori is an object created by the conscious thinking subject...
August 24, 2020 at 11:58
Kant uses many and assorted (distorted?) descriptors for reason, but doesn’t posit or indicate that “reason transcends nature”, so I wonder what he wo...
August 23, 2020 at 15:14
Of course they’re different, but their differences have nothing to do with evidence. Rationality: the use of reason according to principles, the judge...
August 22, 2020 at 12:42
Oh, I would think there is. It is quite justified to not fault the method, when it is at least possible, if not probable, the use of it is the sole an...
August 21, 2020 at 16:24
Skepticism regarding the contents, or the objects, with which the method may be concerned, is hardly the same as the skepticism directed at the method...
August 21, 2020 at 13:52
All the incremental objects of the nature of an AI remain an AI, but the thesis on rationality implies a methodology better than, hence necessarily di...
August 21, 2020 at 11:01
It was a good read. Well done.
August 20, 2020 at 22:27
Supposition = contingency; presupposition = necessity (??) Something must be presupposed, absolutely.
August 17, 2020 at 00:39
The conditions for answering the question are contained by it, which makes it superfluous.
August 15, 2020 at 13:31
Empty, in that neither has a specific object of their own by which they are identified. There are no schemata for the concept of ontology nor metaphys...
August 14, 2020 at 11:35
Nothing irreparably wrong with most of that, but the point is being overlooked, in that the original PC claims knowledge is impossible. Knowledge here...
August 13, 2020 at 17:47
If we think of perceptions as affects by objects giving us sensations, I don’t see how we can be not conscious of them. And by the same token, if ther...
August 13, 2020 at 14:43
‘S-ok. I’m not here to teach, so......as long as I can’t be proven wrong, I’m happy enough.
August 13, 2020 at 14:03
I say....pretty much agreeable, with the exception that in math there is not complete freedom, insofar as any mathematical structure must adhere to th...
August 13, 2020 at 13:33
The latter would have been my idea as well, with the antecedent indicating criteria themselves imply a system in which they serve as operative conditi...
August 13, 2020 at 12:06
A logical argument ends as merely a worthless sophism, when the means to create it necessarily presuppose the very impossibility it is meant to demons...
August 12, 2020 at 13:32
Understood. Whomever authored the quote mischaracterized Bergson, then? The quote said.... .....which is the only thing I took issue with.
August 11, 2020 at 13:51
My modus operandi as well. Although, I admit to getting a little.....er, wordy sometimes. Most of the time. Almost always. Ok, but if you do that, doe...
August 11, 2020 at 13:41
If by “listen” it is meant to exhibit conscious attention, then by definition it is impossible to pay attention to that which is sub-conscious. ————— ...
August 11, 2020 at 11:49
“....But as to metaphysics, the miserable progress it has hitherto made, and the fact that of no one system yet brought forward, as far as regards its...
August 10, 2020 at 21:29
“On The Turning Away”, David Gilmour, 1987. An interpretive essay on the evils of inter-human complacency, of which most of us are somewhat guilty.
August 10, 2020 at 18:23
Yeah, me too. Particularly the reference authors and their respective literature. Bergson (French, early 20th century analytic process philosopher); C...
August 10, 2020 at 17:16
Absolutely. All the good stuff is complicated. Which is most likely why it’s often rejected by those not willing to work that hard towards a possibly ...
August 10, 2020 at 14:52
Guilty, I know. But shameless, I think.
August 10, 2020 at 12:40
I must say, you have really good arguments.....but a bigger really....is the fact that the vast majority of humanity to whom abstract concepts apply, ...
August 10, 2020 at 12:09
Philosophy (of a certain time and kind): the means by which reason curbs its own enthusiasm.
August 09, 2020 at 00:43
So what happens when empirical conditions occur, in which the proof of such logical transformations goes against experience? Shall we then find that t...
August 08, 2020 at 11:30
You said philosophy gives clarity rather than knowledge, phenomenology is a philosophy, so gives clarity to phenomena. Kantian phenomena are stated bu...
August 08, 2020 at 01:34
That’s a pretty fair elucidation of why I never got into phenomenology, in that post-Kantians developed a novel thesis around the notion of phenomena ...
August 06, 2020 at 10:32
Do you treat phenomenology as a philosophy? If so, you don’t hold with the notion that metaphysics is the ground of all philosophies?
August 05, 2020 at 22:30
I suppose I can live with that. If morality stands as personality regulation, in which I do care about others, so then would amoral stand as a persona...
August 05, 2020 at 10:13
Yo’ Eddie....help a brother out, wodja? “....Alone, listless Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room Young girl, violence Center of her own attenti...
August 04, 2020 at 21:44
Just like practically everything else....there may be two sides to this coin. Given that a man’s primary, unalterable and final consideration is prese...
August 04, 2020 at 15:00
Granting that there are no rules covering the cases themselves, which implies an inductive approach, there can still be rules from a deductive approac...
August 04, 2020 at 12:15
Oh. Hmmmmm....so it is possible to un-ring the bell. Yeahhhh-no, it isn’t. Sorry. Wait. That was probably tediously analytic, wasn’t it. Never mind, t...
August 03, 2020 at 14:26
I don’t find banality; your position seems rather commonplace. In the Good Old Days, such would be called “vulgar understanding”. Plain to see why we ...
August 03, 2020 at 12:32
So I should act according to what won’t piss you off (or will please you), rather than doing what I think best? What about the fact I may not know wha...
August 03, 2020 at 11:47
As you are entitled. So, what....being true to one’s self is meaningless, or, being true to one’s self is a valid concept but just needs a different n...
August 02, 2020 at 23:36
Ok. Thanks.
August 02, 2020 at 22:51
Absolutely. So what does knowing what we can’t do, tell us about what we can?
August 02, 2020 at 19:43
Ahhh....so it is a school. Wonder what the attendance is.....
August 02, 2020 at 18:58
Which reduces without contradiction, to.....the human condition is about making choices, the consequences of which are unknown. Humans do choose, and ...
August 02, 2020 at 13:20
Agreed, at least for this part. “What I want to see happen” translates easily to “that for which I am sufficient causality”. Sometimes better known as...
August 02, 2020 at 12:08
Wrong question. Should be....to what ought my actions, comply? ————— Not in this neck of the woods. That to which the acts given from my moral disposi...
August 02, 2020 at 11:26
An ought is possible from an is, yes, but not by means of beliefs. But if you wish to see it that way, have fun with it.
August 01, 2020 at 21:19
Hmmm.....I sure hope not. I’m ok with utilitarianism equating to the greatest good, but I reject Kantian deontology, which is technically a metaphysic...
August 01, 2020 at 17:18
In principle, but not without support. Hume said so himself: “...For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, 'tis nec...
August 01, 2020 at 13:13
To label a non-physical function of the brain presupposes there is one. Might be more accurate to say mind is a term of convenience to label a yet unk...
August 01, 2020 at 11:34