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If I were to take exception to anything, I would think science is at least partially reductionism-driven, insofar as science should always seek the si...

Lots of cool stuff in there, which I can appreciate. I wonder what terminology you’d use to classify the different orders of reality; I know what I’d ...

Yep. That’s what the law says. Right there, “M.P.N.P”, 1687, Book1, pg 20, “Axioms or Laws of Motion”, depending on which edition/translation is refer...

And experience. Ever tried to push a car on an icy street? Even if the car had a SaranWrap hood and you disfigured it with the pressure of your hands,...

My thoughts exactly. Failed chemistry lab? Struck out with that blonde in Mrs. Sherman’s French class? Oh. Wait. Never mind.

A most touching vocalization of simple words, from Gregg’s “These Days”.......written by Jackson Browne when he was only 16, which I would never have ...

Yeah....me too. Seems I would move backward and the ship would pretty much stay put. Even with Newton’s law, there’s zero force on the ship if all the...

Two things: it is said we have a naturally given “internal sense”, and, if a logical argument is consistent with itself and non-contradictory, conclud...

Your (synthesis2( appearance + understanding))) I would change to phenomenon + understanding. Imagination synthesizes the representation “appearance” ...

Yours, and a veritable HOST of like-minded individuals. Which is fine, each must hold to himself.

But Polyphemus, being blind as the proverbial bat, was easily fooled by a simple ruse. Humans in general, likewise easily fooled, still have the capac...

I certainly wouldn’t deny this assertion. Nevertheless...... .......while unproblematic as a proposition under those stringent conditions, forces the ...

My understanding of time (and space): That which at least one apparent intelligence has developed from itself, specifically for the use of itself.

Not an advocate of a priori knowledge, huh? Are we to maintain that it is impossible to know anything that isn’t first perceived?

Not sure Rene would go for that; it is my understanding that he intended the “I” of “...therefore I am” to be necessarily conditioned by the “cogito”....

How would that be arranged, that escape? Ontology of mind and body? The study of the origin and existence of mind and body? If the mind/body dualism i...

Probably; “Bucky balls” give an interference pattern, and they are monstrous compared to elementary particles. If they’re still people, why wouldn’t t...

I submit it is altogether impossible to escape the subject/object dichotomy, or dualism. Can’t re-enter what’s never been vacated. Metaphysically spea...

The only way to analyze concepts is with other concepts; the human representational system knows no other way. If it be granted the definition validat...

If that, then the synthesis of them should follow, or, the synthesis of them and something else subsumed under them, in order to complete a method. Fo...

Maybe it’s as simple as finding no profit in questioning the experience of our observations. Perception presupposes existence, therefore to question e...

“....it must still remain a scandal to philosophy and to the general human reason to be obliged to assume, as an article of mere belief, the existence...

What’s the difference? Rules may become public, but they never initialize publicly. ————- Categorical error: rules are not necessarily related to trut...

The rules of chess....or rules for anything else for that matter, along with laws, imperatives, principles, maxims, a veritable plethora of logical gu...

To which you are most certainly entitled. ————- Sorry.....I edited and didn’t notice I deleted (CPR A849/B877). ————- I realize that, yes. “Rule”, ”be...

Hmmm......yes, my mistake; there always an exception to the rule. Things may be re-learned due to brain or mental malfunction. But philosophy has to d...

Two things: something is stored somewhere, and, nothing is ever learned twice. One may incorporate those into either a scientific or philosophical the...

I agree, in accordance with the theoretical tenet that reason is a conscious mental activity. That which happens on the other side, is not reason per ...

“...CHAPTER III. The Architectonic of Pure Reason. By the term architectonic I mean the art of constructing a system. Without systematic unity, our kn...

Maybe. Or maybe those coming after foisted such “synthesis” on him. He certainly didn’t acknowledge such synthesis as his philosophical intent, that I...

There is a transcendental argument which says reason is the entirety of the human cognitive system, from perception to knowledge, so at least some peo...

In the synthesis of the two, are we not then left with one of two inevitable conclusions: either there are times in our conscious living when we don’t...

So....”What” is the answer to that question.....satisfies the query? I’m ok with that; I just left out the rest of the declarative.

Odd, isn’t it? The answer is given in the query, but stating the answer extinguishes the query. What’s the older version?

What.

What role does reason play....wherein lays its weight....in humans generally, from a psychological point of view?

Lyrics need edit.

Judge conflicting opinions with something of demonstrably greater certainty.

I dunno, man......awful lot of free-thinking there, but with a conspicuous lack of method to justify it. I’m sure you understand, that for people who ...

Sure, I can see that. Mighty big if, and, would require a certain kind of sentient being. On the other hand, in order for your “me” to remain an obser...

So.....no causa sui? With respect to moral systems based on an autonomous will, rather than ethical theories based on cultural norms, I mean. Not very...

I pretty much agree with your argument, but here, mightn’t it be said we chose immorally, rather than irrationally? Reason does obligate, but merely s...

See Chalmers, 2004, “Representational Character of Experience”, pt 6 (on Russell), and 7 (on Frege).

I see you removed the false proposition “all possible propositions are necessary”. Every proposition, that is, all subject/copula/predicate compositio...

Understood. Thanks. So how does any of that relate to time and existence?

Ok....so....thought is the conflict between two states.......of mind? There are two conflicting states of mind, which can be used as the definition of...

Technically everything is relative to the subject which apprehends, except whatever one chooses to represent his self, re: ego, “I”, consciousness.......

One is certainly permitted to think whatever he likes, so if you think the C.I. is an improved golden rule, far be it from me to argue the thought. Ar...

Given this from 1785...... “...Let it not be thought that the common "quod tibi non vis fieri" could serve here as the rule or principle. For it is on...

Which is fine, thinking folks been so inclined for millennia. Still, beware the greatest danger to radical-ness, self-contradiction.