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Kudos on originality. Under the assumption, of course, that you were not aware of the “transcendental unity of apperception”, which for all intents an...

I’ll defer, designate myself as second chair.

Understood. Thanks.

Wouldn’t it have to exhaust something, in order to circumvent such infinite regress illusions as the dreaded homunculus argument? But that’s alright.....

Agreed. It is impossible to intuit the self, for intuition is always an undetermined phenomenon, and all phenomena, hence all empirical intuitions, ar...

Again, I appreciate the enlarged context. If you, and/or she, had said some thinking is a function of morality, I wouldn’t have taken so great an exce...

Good. Now I have proper context. It’s clear you and the author, and I, have very different conceptions of morality. Nothing wrong with that, of course...

No. Best we can say is thought is in time, but time itself, if it merely signifies a relation, can have no content of its own. Divisions of time, is s...

HA!! Excellent.

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If every thought is singular and successive, then every thought is new with respect to its time, but not necessarily new with respect to its content.

Round 1..... If one accepts that one’s thinking with respect to morality is the ground of a subjective code of public conduct, it must depend on perso...

I haven’t read the book. I wonder how the author justifies the proposition, probably somewhere in the story, on the one hand, and why you find it so a...

Not necessarily.....or.....why would one think this might be true?

Kant, 1785, “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, in T. K. Abbott, 1889, on Project Gutenberg ebooks. “...We have then to develop the...

Yikes!! What does that say about peer review?

Not really. I’m just demonstrating that Kantian deontology faces its own form of enforcement, that’s all. There are worse things than being led away i...

Fascinating.

Ahhh.....I see. Because you can’t express why you wouldn’t do something, you’ve been given tacit permission to do it? Another win for utilitarianism, ...

Why would you have to?

You call it enforcement, Kantian ethics calls it constraint. There is, then, at least something prohibitive. “...although they themselves recognize it...

Right. Still, my smell-er reports something very different, so I’m not stymied by such irreconcilable circularity.

Oh. Ok. Never mind.

I like where you’re going with your groundwork here, but do you see where THE good, if taken as a transcendental principle, cannot be that which is “r...

“....While Hobbes, Locke, and Hume disagreed on many important matters, but they each constructed their political theory in a political world that fel...

A paradigm-shifting thesis on the metaphysical principles of quantum dynamics, with respect to the observer problem. Which might reconcile the illusor...

Yep, and if the limitations inherent in the critical reflection nosce te ipsum be given, so too is being objective.

.....took the day off, but told me he didn’t find much originality anywhere. A litany of likes/dislikes, holds/rejects, covering common philosophical ...

Nahhhh....Russell is just some arbitrary cut-off because everybody else after was talking about stuff of which I found not much worthwhile. Some Nagel...

Yes, the quality of our own subjectivity for being objective, determines how objective we can be. Apologies if I didn’t unpack your comment properly.

Cool.

Why do you think that is?

I agree with the dyadic nature of certain systemic domains as fundamental wholes, certainly. Which explains why I never considered the subject-object ...

Avoiding isn’t solving, though, is it? In some contexts, the dualism is altogether unavoidable; I mean, the principle of complementarity demands oppos...

This modern stuff.....practically everything philosophical written after Russell, 1912. I’m old, and I think old. Categorical errors are mistakes of r...

Perhaps I should clarify: objective form of transmission refers to the general kind of transmission it is, whether written, spoken, signed....stone ca...

Thanks for the reference. Interesting enough, but category mistakes of this kind are not the categorical errors I’m concerned with. The original form,...

True enough, with the caveat that humans in general usually communicate by rote, misunderstandings being the exception rather than the rule. The main ...

The bullseye represents that you admit thinking is fundamental; the categorical error represents that you’ve substituted the primary constituent for t...

Categorical error. I’m speaking of images with respect to the schema of conceptions, which arise spontaneously from pure thought, you’re speaking of i...

I would tend to agree. The time it takes for you to fly to the moon and back for me is whatever the time of it is; the time it takes for you to fly to...

Hey..... A couple of cents..... ....Kant knew of spherical geometry, and qualified all his analogous geometric figures with “...straight lines..”. All...

Bullseye!!! Remember that definition, “thinking is cognition by means of conceptions”? Images are the schema of conceptions, but we cannot communicate...

Ok.

Yeah....how ‘bout that. Psychologists??? Google scholar??? Farging PRACTICE, fercrissakes!?!?!?!? I’m done here.

Exactly. From which it follows necessarily that talking is not something our minds do. We can think without talking but cannot talk without thinking, ...

No, I haven’t. You are in effect asking for the truth of whether or not an object exists outside the mind, which would be necessarily given if that ob...

Perhaps the best first post I’ve seen here. Only parts of it are of interest to me, but that shouldn’t matter. Well done.

My words are about human minds in general because the theory is. Not being the author of the theory, the onus is not on me to defend it, but if the th...

Yes, but not necessarily or exclusively. Substitution can also be a logical activity, insofar as the universal form of premises can be exchanged for t...