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Understood, and agreed, in principle. On the one hand, no human is possible without the antecedent humanity, but on the other, a general condition of ...

Ok. The modern version of universal forms, ideals, sentiments, various sundry renditions of..... “...that which exists a priori in the mind...” .........

OK. Thanks.

What is a formal concept?

When you say, “that concept isn’t private”, do you mean to say by “that concept”, McDowell’s claim? Or maybe you meant the important point is that con...

If your mind is absolutely unreliable, yet you ask after other minds for the reconciliation of the problem, you’ve immediately contradicted yourself, ...

I would say we create it. Given any dinosaur, the existence of the object seems to pre-date any language from which is derived the name for it. On the...

I don’t know how we’d be able to tell the difference between an ordinarily existing thing and a necessarily existing thing. But then, we don’t say...t...

Say hello to an infinite compendium of pure abstract concepts. What does this do for pragmatic utility? How much pragmatic thinking grounded in rules?

In effect, we knew all about how to treat each other, except we didn’t know it was ethics? Am I understanding better?

Short version..... That which exists being contingent on time implies everything which exists is contingent on time. If everything is contingent on so...

(Stronger) Top down..... Pragmatic utility in the distinction? I would have to say no, because of the way they’re defined. Purely abstract, the unknow...

If it be granted knowledge is nothing but a judgement of relative truth (I know/don’t know this because of that), then knowledge is either something w...

Yes. ——————- Yes again. Necessity always makes contingency logically impossible. ——————- It can’t. That’s the same as saying how can it not ever be. T...

I take you to mean I’m making the right point on consciousness, and qualia are the integrated information contained in consciousness. I’m ok with that...

Yes, of course. And just as much as that is true, so too is the........ .......but I nevertheless caution against the use of “experience” in the conte...

I haven’t had any tough questions to ignore, and I’m tired of being led up to, so.....

Emerges out of, of course. That’s the opposite of prior to. On the other hand, if I take mountain/erosion as metaphor for change, then I must say expe...

Primordial. Fundamental state or condition. I don’t understand how one can speak about experience primordially. And if the distinction is the subjecti...

First: That was hard to read. Second: Cool. Somebody asked for my thoughts. Finally......pretty good. To respond: .......All facts are contingent on t...

What about them? You: Why did you say that? Me: Because (_____), so it had to be (_____). You. Oh. Right. OK. Now what? ————————- Ok, fine. Your own k...

I get it. Kant used Thales, but......same principle. Wonder why the extended time frame between them. Maybe Thales’ set of axioms weren’t as complete.

Interesting. Thanks for the context.

Perhaps not. But that wasn’t the intent of the Critiques, nor the Metaphysics of Natural Science. It didn’t matter to him, because even if he entertai...

Mostly the first, in varying degrees. Progress, doncha know. As far as I’m concerned, to wit: mere opinion, Kant was the paradigm shifter in epistemol...

Yes, but you haven’t reduced the anthropos, insofar as you’ve included the movement of bodies and changes in time into a system, re: “a bat would have...

Primordial meaning fundamental......agreed. If some things exist necessarily, they do not so spring, agreed, but it does not follow that they always e...

Well done. A tip of the pointy hat. Almost everything humans talk about now can relate to what Kant has already said. Except of course, those particul...

Correct. But anthropomorphic. All that allows us to characterize a bat, is ourselves.

Telling, but maybe not more telling. But I was responding to empirical conditions, like seeing a table or a tree. Appreciation is not an empirical con...

We do use our experience to draw inferences about something possibly derivable from it, yes. But not always. Sometimes the inference comes first, and ...

Perhaps, but if that were the case, how would we account for knowledge with respect to that which we don’t project, or, which is the same thing, has n...

Illogical thought; irrational reasoning. The difference between reality and knowledge. ———————- Yes. ——————- No, that’s just plain ol’ run-of-the-mill...

Good. But maybe for different reasons. And from a human point of view only..... The fundamental criterion for the existence of things, is the possibil...

Correct, which is why I mentioned Gilbert Ryle. I figure error in semantics or error in reason are the only two worth talking about. And because langu...

The categories are not phenomena, there is no object that can be thought for them. That which is not phenomena is not thereby automatically noumena. N...

I submit there is at least one metric for measuring at least one “how come”, and that measurable metric is behavior, with respect to the “how come” ca...

Categorical errors can only be demonstrated by showing the falsity of the proposition from which they were originally given. I suppose one could list ...

Pretty much, with the caveat that “categorization” might not carry the proper inflection. One shouldn’t confuse speculative categories such as Aristot...

Looking back, I see I could have registered the statement without including a mistake you wouldn’t have made.

It’s given that everything human, happens because of the brain. I reject out of hand that what it means to be human, can be discovered on an o’scope. ...

Here, I suppose such a problem would arise, because if belief is held to be a subjective institution, re: judgement, and thereby defined with a priori...

I go with matter can be removed but form cannot. ———————— There doesn’t seem to be any general consensus in the literature for either Brentano’s or Hu...

Yeah....the proverbial red-headed step-child of the Critical Period, huh. By far the most difficult from which to extract the good stuff. That, and it...

Good synopsis. Thanks. I’m ok with intentionality, subjective requirements, pure subjectivity/objectivity. Not too keen on categories being similar to...

The categories don’t determine errors, and we don’t choose them. Errors arise from irrational or illogical associations the subject thinks, and catego...

Does phenomenology hold with “categories”, have them in its doctrine? I understand subjective requirements we hold in order to talk about things, just...

Indeed. But often is the case, that assumptions involve an unrecognized categorical error, in that this theory/model/logical conclusion doesn’t necess...

You’d have to ask fdrake for his broader point, but for me, it was his highlighting assumption and fallible modeling processes, with respect to them. ...

Yeah, fractal curve lengths tend to infinity, which hardly works for measuring coral boundaries. I like your attitude on assumptions. We all got ‘em, ...