Oh, absolutely. It was never intended to be. It is nothing but a measure of best-case-scenario, where it would work just fine if every moral agent gra...
True enough, insofar as one would have to existentially be in a position to decide something about the trolley switch in order for such scenarios to h...
Assure away, but you can’t prove it. The very best you can say is that your individual subject is necessarily grounded in physical conditions, which n...
Interesting. As soon as I figured out the emboldened text referred to the section above it, rather than below, as is the norm in dissertation....... A...
That’s fine, as a personal view. We all have them. I wonder, though, how you justify having no morals. It must depend on what you think morals are, su...
Understanding is the first and primary conscious activity in humans, so understanding is always evident in any judgement. There are only two kinds of ...
Hmmmm......I suppose one could say a mathematical proof is in its form, that is, I can prove this theorem with this formula, but that still leaves a n...
Sorry, I’m gonna need some help with that. It’s possible to reconcile a fallacy with a validity, so I’m not sure what I’m being asked. —————— Only bec...
Nope, not saying that. You and I and Kant knew everything from a human perspective has to do with the brain. Nevertheless, if nobody knows exactly the...
Wha....we went from the conflict of consciousness being explainable by materialists or unexplainable by idealists, the fallacy in support of the latte...
Nahhh....perhaps I’m too much the literalist, not being too much for subtleties. Or, perhaps the more one searches for them, the more likely he is to ...
It is a non-starter, for the excruciatingly simple reason that Kantian metaphysics isn’t as much concerned with the knowable/unknowable, that being an...
Be that as it may, for Kant the unknown is contingently so, possibly reducible by experience, the unknowable is necessarily so, regardless of experien...
Put me in the “nothing” column. Kant wasn’t concerned with the unknown, as much as the unknowable, and the ultimate unknowable, the unconditioned, thi...
Big deal. When those losers have been arguing amongst themselves for the bulk of millennia as we metaphysicians.....and getting the same nowhere as we...
Or, create an argument showing that it does. The history of metaphysical dialectic is against you, but then, paradigm shifts have happened before, so....
If it is proven you don’t exist, how did you ask whether or not your existence was disprovable? And if it was proven you didn’t exist, how would you k...
Simple, really: I’m unaware of beauty when I don’t think a thing I’m aware of is beautiful. What right would I have to think that, if I didn’t already...
What right do we have to say that? We see the laws because we put them there, in order to understand the operation of the universe according to our ki...
I think I’ll restrict attention to the province of awareness, rather than consciousness. While it is possible to be aware of a plurality of things at ...
For things to be the same, or even synonymous to a significant reduction, they should really be so under any condition. But they are not, to wit: I am...
Synonymous, yes, insofar as awareness is taken to be the quality of being aware just as consciousness is taken to be the quality of being conscious, s...
While I agree consciousness is its content, and would certainly seem to be variable in degree, do you see that the link you gave doesn’t address that ...
I expressed a cognition, a judgement in the form of a language proposition, which represents my knowledge of bodies. How, then, would you explain to m...
There is a theory of induction; the principle of induction conditions empirical theories, or theories the objects of which ascend from the particular ...
Intuitions are not feelings. No theory is verified, for they all operate under the principle of induction; they merely stand as unfalsified....until t...
The thesis: The judgements of science are determined by how one feels about it. The antithesis: A subject’s feelings, generally, even if coherent, are...
It is nonsense in a way. Understanding, which is what discursive reasoning actually entails, only becomes relevant when we want to know the how of a t...
.....likewise taken to mean “have their own core principles that they think entail all of their positions on all of the different philosophical sub-qu...
“....merely a lame appeal to a logical condition...” What does it mean to be conscious, such that more of less of it makes sense? According to one spe...
“...—a science containing the systematic presentation of the whole body of philosophical knowledge, true as well as illusory, given by pure reason—is ...
Of a different nature to be sure, as Kant elaborates: “....The philosophy of nature relates to that which is, that of ethics to that which ought to be...
Momentary lapse of reason (thanks, David!! Not you...the other David) on my part. That which is inconceivable is unknowable, not necessarily impossibl...
Not necessarily; it is possible for a question not to have an answer, in which case the question seeking an unknown remains unsatisfied, and logical r...
Yeah, pretty much, which just goes to show that while materialism alone isn’t false, it alone is insufficient as a explanatory device in all cases. Th...
Make up your mind. —————- An analytic judgement can be false. Because “the inconceivable is not the impossible” is false, it is not true under any con...
I guess....in the most basic sense, the query presupposes the conception in the subject of the response relates directly to the conception in the subj...
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