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Lest we forget where this current dialectic came from, I submit it is quite adequate for a response to the original proposition...... ......in which a...
December 30, 2019 at 15:43
Instead of ending with admitting I may have misunderstood what you’re trying to say, let me begin with it. If I got it right, the following pertains; ...
December 29, 2019 at 12:34
Sure you may, and.....thanks. The two scenarios are too dissimilar to be compared, aren’t they? In mine, the snowball is built, destroyed and reconstr...
December 29, 2019 at 00:25
Yeah.......no, not at all. If I make a snowball, heave it at the barn wall and it explodes, it has immediately ceased to exist as a snowball. If I gat...
December 28, 2019 at 17:03
So no need of the arrow of time? There is no content expectation from pre-existence to existence, but if from post-existence to existence holds, then ...
December 27, 2019 at 13:59
Hmmmm.......things at rest. Things...objects...spacetime realities. That are not in motion relative to something else. From a Newtonian perspective, f...
December 26, 2019 at 15:29
From the time you hit the elementary school sandbox...... ......has already been established. The vast majority of humanity made it through life witho...
December 26, 2019 at 14:46
Simply put, all the “I” was ever meant to do, is represent the human thinking subject, and that to whom feelings belong, and then, for no other reason...
December 25, 2019 at 13:27
Concur, without reservation. Problem is, human understanding can be....and usually is....influenced by a posteriori conditions not of its own making. ...
December 19, 2019 at 14:19
And with that, I see my effort here is not well-spent. Carry on.
December 17, 2019 at 14:52
Depends on the claim, yes, which we may say depends on the domain of discourse. Empirical knowledge is always contingent, so there is no infallible gu...
December 15, 2019 at 21:42
Half a cookie!?!? Jeez....what a cheapskate!!! I covered what you said in my 2.) I imagine you letting loose of the other half of MY cookie.
December 15, 2019 at 18:38
Couldn’t be any other way, if one digs deep enough. “....For, as the world has never been, and, no doubt, never will be without a system of metaphysic...
December 15, 2019 at 18:28
Yours. 1.) The possibility of crashing is not given from none other than the imagination of flying. A man imagining flying does not conceive crashing....
December 15, 2019 at 18:10
Our mutual dialectical precedent suggests the clash of the analytic mindset with the continental mindset presents the audience with naught but an abun...
December 13, 2019 at 17:06
And what you wrote presupposes complicated human thought qualifies as experience. (Insert icon here)
December 12, 2019 at 16:09
What it is: “....Philosophy is the system of all philosophical cognition. We must use this term in an objective sense, if we understand by it the arch...
December 12, 2019 at 14:45
An icon? All I get is a stupid ICON!!! I feel so....so....diminished.
December 12, 2019 at 13:01
Then you got it wrong; no pure idealist, more commonly called a subjective idealist, the domain of The Esteemed Bishop Berkeley, grants the physical e...
December 12, 2019 at 01:17
Once more, this time with bullhorn and amplifier: We’re doing the talking, the observing, the understanding, the assigning, the cognizing, the experie...
December 11, 2019 at 23:42
And over-abundant. Proper critique, on the other hand, is not. Or maybe I just like the word.
December 11, 2019 at 21:29
As well you shouldn’t, your “this” being understood as the general conception “property”. The fundamental ground of properties is their capacity for m...
December 11, 2019 at 21:12
Because the query presupposes without warrant, that existence is that to which it is possible to belong. Logic and parsimony suggest that existence is...
December 11, 2019 at 17:53
It only matters when one needs to distinguish between what it means for Neptune to exist, and what it means for feelings to exist. The two are so comp...
December 10, 2019 at 17:43
Law of Non-contradiction. I always argue from the German Enlightenment tradition, which boils down, for all epistemological or moral intents and purpo...
December 10, 2019 at 17:19
[ Yes, that’s why it and the other categories is/are called a necessary condition(s). All that needs to be derived from that regulative principle, is ...
December 10, 2019 at 15:12
In effect, yes. My experiences are not things that exist, they are merely the termination of a rational process. Physical things in space and time are...
December 10, 2019 at 14:40
Actually, in accordance with the transcendental argument, it does follow necessarily. Existence, the pure concept of understanding, permits nothing el...
December 10, 2019 at 13:58
This isn’t mathematics; there are no empirical proofs in speculative metaphysics. The “necessary condition for the possibility of human phenomenal exp...
December 10, 2019 at 13:30
We find that only 1.) is true. If 2.) is true, then one of the possible changes for existence is its negation. The negation of existence is, there isn...
December 10, 2019 at 12:48
While the thesis is pretty good, the answers lay in what proper reason is, and, the danger for “greater functional representation” becoming too much g...
December 10, 2019 at 12:16
Ok. Thanks.
December 09, 2019 at 23:40
Yeah, I understand those as subjective inclinations, wants, desires and such. Dunno how pragmatism got into moral judgements though, which does its be...
December 09, 2019 at 23:40
First, I don’t know where the context of human values relates to the conditions of experience. If you’d said the “conditions of moral worthiness in th...
December 09, 2019 at 23:31
Bookkeeping device. Sad though, to be the device. After all, the appearance gets the name, while the device just is.
December 09, 2019 at 21:50
Can you unpack this a little more, for me? Specifically, I’m wondering where the notion of veneer of universal pragmatisms comes from.
December 09, 2019 at 20:42
I’m arguing from the premise that the notion of quantity is not to be supposed as the abstract playground, but should be considered merely the use of ...
December 09, 2019 at 15:34
Maybe not so much numbers, for even the proverbial caveman had the idea of quantity and the ability to represent it to himself. I mean....who goes hun...
December 06, 2019 at 12:48
You: we have no means to understand them? Me: we have no means to understand them, except..... Please tell me you do actually see a difference there. ...
December 06, 2019 at 01:11
Therefore it is non-contradictory to say consciousness is a state of being conscious. Constantly changing states, because we’re always thinking as lon...
December 06, 2019 at 01:05
Even if we disregard the fact that thinking requires certain physiological attributes, and merely observe creatures in their own undisturbed environme...
December 06, 2019 at 00:54
Yep. The human rational agent has but one thought at a time.
December 06, 2019 at 00:47
Correct. But I don’t. So I’m not.
December 06, 2019 at 00:44
Yeah, I will. Just as soon as it is apparent to me, that the mental explanatory gap in an animal with 2B neural connections per mm3*, 16B in the most ...
December 06, 2019 at 00:43
What wayfarer said, plus.....(shudder) ......anthropomorphism: attributing congruency between being conscious of and being merely reactive to.
December 05, 2019 at 23:18
Hmmmm....yeah. If it can’t be proven the one was pissed because he understood “3 more than me” as opposed to just recognizing “that sorry sack of elep...
December 05, 2019 at 23:00
Seems pretty simple to me. If “redness” is the state of being red, “fitness” is the state of being fit, why shouldn’t consciousness be the state of be...
December 05, 2019 at 21:56
Lots of folks would follow suit. I rather think that Nature has its intrinsic relations, which we observe and explain to ourselves by means of mathema...
December 05, 2019 at 21:35
Yep. Paradoxical indeed: we think consciousness as that which that belongs to us because of our nature, then attribute to it qualities we can’t figure...
December 05, 2019 at 21:22
Pardon me If I’m being nosey, but.....what do you use for reference material?
December 05, 2019 at 19:13