Because observation grants a human is moral before he is intelligent, and because experience itself is absent in pre-intelligent humans, after all the...
“...Necessity and strict universality, therefore, are infallible tests for distinguishing pure from empirical knowledge, and are inseparably connected...
Page 2: My point was that Alice doesn’t see anything because she is rational; she sees because she has eyes. If Alice sees more because she is rationa...
Page 1: I rather think rationality and morality are the two outstanding hallmarks of the human animal, or, the two conditions under which animals in g...
Does anybody these days still think everything is matter or everything is mind? Doesn’t seem all that logical to me. That is not to say dualists don’t...
Yes, and from which is given, that because circumferences and diameters were already objects of experience, the relationship between them being pi doe...
Ok, so everything is information. What does that do for us? What are we to do with that information? Is it sufficient from the fact everything is info...
We both know how easy it is to fulfill our possibilities merely from our imagination. Reminds me of my all time favorite truism: “....I can think what...
Actually, all I know from experience, is that if I try to put some A and some B in the same place at the same time, either A will displace B or B will...
What prevents me from attempting to put A and B in the same place at the same time, then discovering the impossibility of it? I might need language to...
I am not aware of any natural investigation, or, which is the same thing, investigation using natural means, that has any chance of showing our privat...
Transcendental realism and empirical idealist are terms found in A, and dropped in B. Transcendental idealist = empirical realist = dualist; Transcend...
Thanks for the thoughtful, and interesting, reply. I look forward to them, even while voicing opposition where I find it. As you are welcome to do as ...
Kant’s answer is that Alice doesn’t know a damn thing about logical conditions, as they are insinuated in Ryle. Alice’s entire cognitive faculty is ab...
Maybe....I dunno. Each of those doctrines have so many branches, there probably are some that interact as opposites of a dualism. I do favor methodolo...
I am very disappointed in being sent to wiki. ——————— I get that hylomorphism attributes both matter and form to objects, such that form is relieved o...
Fun stuff: I understand how assigning agency to a faculty sounds kinda hincky, but really....we only have two choices, within our current knowledge ba...
Easy stuff: The only way we couldn’t be agreeing, is if your use of the experience of a particular object followed by meaningful talk of it, is not ag...
Exactly the thing I’m NOT talking about. “Makes language possible” should have indicated I’m talking about the necessary a priori presuppositions for ...
No worries, s’all good. My fault for posing somewhat vague scenarios, in the interest of reductionist simplicity. I will offer that you are guilty of ...
I walk up to a guy, show him a Rorschach, ask him.....what’s going on in your brain right now? Or, I walk up to a guy, show him a Rorschach, ask him.....
Part Two: Nahhh...., Robbie has experience of sticks on the ground and branches in trees, so he knows normally sticks aren’t bent in the way they seem...
Part One: Absolutely. No meaningful discourse when the parties all agree with each other. Still, in Ryle, as you say....... ......to better understand...
All of which validates the premise that method is a systematic procedure according to rules, but not according to laws. Because there is no promise al...
True enough. Still, in the compendium of practical matters in which humans can agree with each other on an arbitrary set of empirical determinations i...
You used system in regard to a strict, singular, deterministic; I used method. The method is the rules, the system is the use of the rules. No matter ...
Equally compelling views is a relative quality, but still, the enabling parameters for neural networks corresponding to war being different than enabl...
If method is a systematic procedure according to rules, then reason should be readily granted as the method of (human) thinking. But I’m reluctant to ...
Understood. One can’t reject mind-related terminology yet still talk about mind-like things. Still, because minds, in and of themselves, would seem to...
It is irrational to doubt the fact of thought, and that thoughts have exact content; there is no such thing as a thought never had nor a thought had t...
Ok. Keeping context in the fore..... You: By intentional, I mean directing one's focus towards something; Me: The thing being acted upon presupposes a...
As most are apt to say. But when saying that, all that happens without conscious attention, is neglected. You have no awareness of appearances, intuit...
The very epitome of a dualistic nature: focus towards immediately presupposes focus from. The thing being acted upon presupposes an actor, doesn’t it?...
What Kant means..... Existence is a category, which are the pure conceptions of the understanding and serve as the necessary conditions for experience...
Hmmm.....curved in spacetime, or curves spacetime? Cured in space, sure....it’s a spheroid. Curves spacetime, sure..... it has mass in a gravitational...
First, Kant didn’t attribute any geometry to space, but rather, to objects in space. Kant was a “magister” in math and tutored university-level mathem...
Yes, things happen in time is a general statement, or a general condition of all measurable things. Still, when we say we are measuring things with ti...
Yes, I see what you mean. Newtonian absolute space/time was the view prior to relativistic spacetime. I’m not understanding what in Einstein would con...
Philosophy advances by the appropriation of terms, no doubt. Appropriation of terms into subsequent domains still should be legitimatized. Intuition.....
...is categorically opposed to the Kantian a priori meaning, for any contingently prior background is merely another way to say “experience”. “....By ...
Man, that’s a lot of templates. If there are an immeasurably large number of possible experiences, each one with its own template......where’d they al...
What is it about those views that make them a priori? —————— Even in Einstein, the observer in his own reference frame is in the Kantian view of Eucli...
Well done!!! Pure reason writ large, yes? Just as logic is predicated on the synthesis of major/minor/conclusion, so too is the theory of human knowle...
If taken from the principle of induction, this would be correct, but might should read....unknowable completely. The world-in-itself is completely unk...
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