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So if you perceive something, it is not certain you perceived it? Some thing….don’t matter what it is….gets right in front of your eyes, but you doubt...

I dunno, man. He spent 184 pages rippin’ Kant a new one. Right after page one, where he says Kant’s the greatest philosopher ever ….until he came alon...

Peculiar for us, maybe? Wonder what the peer-group at the time thought. Truth be told, I don’t know S’s relation to H as well as I know his relation t...

“….The thing in itself I have neither introduced surreptitiously nor inferred according to laws which exclude it, because they really belong to its ph...

Sort of, yes. He calls it “…a vain dialectical art….”, but because his version of metaphysics does incorporate synthetic a priori principles for its c...

Agreed; it is the issue in Kant’s time. By “we” is meant humans in general, regardless of time. My fault for thinking this was the accepted implicatio...

Hey…. Once again, thanks for the nod, but I abstain from conversations having free will as the topic, insofar as the very notion of “free will”, as fa...

We don’t care that metaphysics works as a science just fine with respect to possible experience; we’d be in trouble if it didn’t. We want to know if i...

‘Tis most suspicious, to say the inventor of a paradigm-shifting epic, a magnum opus in form and function bequeathed to posterity in its completed for...

The title says something very different. A critique of pure reason won’t have much to do with experience or its objects, and as a matter of contextual...

Not that I’m aware. Metaphysics in Kant does not, in itself, deal with experience or its objects. It deals with how it is possible to know about them,...

I think he wasn’t trying to prove yea or nay, regarding metaphysics as a science, which presupposes it is one. He wanted to find out if it was possibl...

There are (nudgenudgewinkwink) maybe 300 pages of CPR I’ve read 1000 times, and with which I can’t for the life of me agree or disagree. Bottomless pi...

You asserted your idea of what made his philosophy dualistic, but this question only relates conceptions to each other, both of them….matter and noume...

They weren't supposed to. They serve only to affirm, that because he favored transcendental idealism, by implication he considered himself a dualist. ...

Same with any of us, I should think. It does seem daft that Kant said there were two worlds, although he did say there is no purely logical condition ...

If you say so. I read the books, not the commentary on them. Skip the middle-man, donchaknow. Translators being subject to peer-review critique, so ou...

Of course not. He’s dead.

“…The transcendental idealist, on the other hand, may be an empirical realist, or, as he is called, a dualist, that is, he may admit the existence of ...

Kant’s worldview is a dualism. Clarity comes with the fact there cannot be a view, that isn’t itself a judgement, that is, some determined relation be...

My fault for not putting up a convincing argument; nevertheless…. ….we agree on that.

Anyway, I’ll stick with the affirmative regarding your “are (there) any "a priori cognitions in general" which do not have their genesis either in exp...

Well sure; that’s so easy to say, when there is already so much mathematically-inclined experience. We’ve all been exposed to number systems since a v...

Ok Thanks. They shouldn’t; he was adamant that there is no such thing as a philosopher. (A839/B867) Speaking of contradictions albeit regardless of wo...

Which system? How does the suggested contradiction in his worldview relate to something missing in his system? Just curious.

Kant said he did. Not only his own satisfaction, but to everyone else’s as well, assuming a commensurate ability to understand it. See Bxxiv.

Understanding may construct a priori cognitions concerning possible experience, true enough, re: motion is necessarily change in time but not necessar...

First of all, nowhere in the statement that made no sense to me was the concept of reality to be found, and nowhere in the logic of my own understandi...

Which is why I said “commonly, but loosely, called”, insofar as the human intellectual faculties do not use symbols or language; it is only when talki...

Logic employed by the understanding is commonly, albeit loosely, called formal, but by Kant’s theory-specific terminology, called general or applied. ...

What said, except I rather think contradiction is certainly a necessary part of logic. Or, maybe, if not a necessary part, then at least the fundament...

Slightly different names, slightly different primary ideas, but pretty much a familiar philosophy to some. So yeah, there’s at least one “other folk(....

“….The fact that the electromagnetic field can possess momentum and energy makes it very real ... a particle makes a field, and a field acts on anothe...

I was merely highlighting a personally-opined absurdity, re: casting a very specific intellect into the virtually unfathomable waters of Mother Nature...

“…. There is unrest in the forest Trouble with the trees For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas The trouble with the maples...

“….It is the highly distinctive spirituality of Kant’s philosophy that provides its transformative force, its cultural gravity, and its historical spe...

Philosopher: I’ll tell you how I think; Psychologist: I’ll tell you how you think. (Sigh)

Ehhhh….it’s just me; I never graduated from the continental German Enlightenment paradigm on the one hand, and never gave….never saw a reason to give…...

HA!! Yeah, Schopenhauer uses the word, too. Not as pejorative as we tend for it these days. Kant was a little more kind, just calling out as common ra...

Many thanks for the commentary, but I must say, I’m no more a fan of phenomenology than I ever was. While I understand it was never your intention to ...

Yeah, ol’ Dave’s Treatise is pretty good reading; lot simpler than the German-language counterarguments that came later. I don’t see a connection betw...

Yeah, I suppose it is. Maybe more Hume-ian. I was just looking for some background the easy way, is all.

Of course, but irrelevant. True enough, insofar as you’re using understanding as a verb denoting a cognitive activity within an intellectual whole, wh...

As The Man says, without the “subjective constitution of our senses in general”, time is meaningless. Which translates to, as far as I’m concerned, ti...

Investigate someone else’s metaphysical exposé of time, you’ll get a different set of premises for its explanation, right?

Everybody should go back to Kant, but most everybody is “done with all this (kind of) thinking”. I’m more affirming your arguments than denying them, ...

Yeah, well, you know….no one’s gonna admit to being “done with all this thinking”, but might still judge that everyone else seems to be done with his.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say Hume’s is a contradiction, but moreso an incomplete philosophy. He just didn’t think deep enough into the abstractions ...

So manifestly tiresome, I should think, to be put in a defensive position, the accusatory ground for which having been seriously misunderstood. Or per...

Being more versed in the classics, what do you think an example, the chronological forerunner, of the modern(-ish) principle of induction would be, wh...