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Similar to, if not taken from, The Coastline Paradox, L. F. Richardson, 1951.

It would seem to be buried in there somewhere, somehow, inasmuch as if not, we are left with (personal subjective) absurdities as universal consciousn...

Agreed, sublime here I understand to mean exalt to higher worth, so we mustn’t attribute to consistency more than it avows on its own. It isn’t a mark...

Nor I, but there is precedent galore for these types of discussions wandering off into the subjectively-driven hinterlands. Ehhhhhh...from where I sit...

Good point, and pardon my speaking too loosely. I claim dialectic license. We do have direct access, but that doesn’t mean we are given Nature as it i...

The human cognitive system is predicated on models it constructs of its own accord. Whether or not the models so constructed correspond one-to-one wit...

No member of Nature can act contrary to the forces of the Nature of which he is a member. None of my actions can be distinguished from forces found na...

Objective criteria, granted. But the human species in general, as observer, does distinguish objects, from himself and from each other, which implies ...

If value is understood to be a noun: .....under what conditions would values be non-subjective, and, .....under what conditions would a hypothetical i...

Specifically continental about Kant’s philosophy is more along the lines of geo-political and religious turmoil, and his response to it, than having t...

No, he does not. Direct perception is given; direct knowledge is denied. ———————- He didn’t want to because he didn’t have to. There is no such thing ...

Down time for service outage. Sorry, but this has nothing whatsoever to do with Kant’s noumena. I hate noumena. He made it so farging difficult to und...

Interest in the pretty rock raises the question of how the interest came about, with respect to the rock’s characteristics/properties/qualities.

I was asking you. After establishing interest, he takes it home. End of story?

The making of no sense is a comparison of necessity. I suppose one can just look at something and not consider anything about it. But what if it inter...

Ok. So a thing has characteristics because it is ontologically necessary?

Thanks for the edit; clearer to me now. All “likes” as characteristics/properties/qualities are themselves comparisons. An observer of the world’s cha...

Of course. As a general rule, nonetheless, when I investigate anything at all, “what it’s like” and “all sorts of things” is inversely proportional to...

Us old-fashion types would say....nothing in the form of a thing can ever give me the first clue as to the matter of it, but only that the matter of i...

Hmmm, yeah, I suppose. Observation tells me that, but use of “modeling” makes explicit I wish to know of. Observation in itself, tells me nothing of t...

My understanding is that rationalists posit, not that everything in life is logical, but that everything humans think, is predicated on logical condit...

Cool. Thanks. I guess my concern, with respect to understanding each other, was to eliminate “report” as a metaphor, as in the case where, say, the se...

Eventually.....maybe....we would have arrived here, at this very place. It is not correct to say everything is phenomenon, but rather, every object of...

Is there a way to know the world without our modeling of it?

Nahhhh.....I was just circumventing what we don’t do when reading a word, as opposed to what we do, re: relate the word to experience. I had in mind t...

OK, I’ll buy that. At the very lowest level, these are concepts, and they can be empty of content. There must be truth, on order for something to be t...

I’ll address this, and forward my agreements with your comments shortly. I don’t want you to think there’s no common ground going on here.

Yes. Even if there must be a first, here meaning a first in a methodological approach, a first by itself is meaningless. —————— This would be true eno...

Quark. An odd word, n'est-ce pas? I submit for your consideration, that you, immediately upon reading the word here and now, referenced your experienc...

It certainly is if there’s no way to tell which one of two or more somethings came first. How are we supposed to keep in mind evolution is important i...

Because you hold the reverse, that thoughts (and beliefs) are the building blocks of concepts? Is this what you mean by...... Step 1: reconcile the ch...

This is agreeable, but doesn’t say anything about what concepts consist of, which is the base of the dialectic. And to say concepts begin with naming ...

Never mind; extracting information in the wrong direction, kinda. I agree we do correlate things. And such correlation develops out of thoughts. I hes...

Oh, ok. We draw correlations and concepts are the results of the correlation of names and things named. Does that mean the thing and the named thing a...

OK, so concepts correlate different things. What are those things? And how do concepts correlate them?

Would it matter, if concepts don’t consist of anything? What does a notion consist of? An idea? Other than to say what each of those does, or from whe...

Sure. I’m old, retired and lazy. Perfect for philosophical musings. Have to acknowledge, however, we’ll bore the holy bejesus outta the physicalists, ...

Dunno about anybody else, but I am. No one denies that humans do things, but examination of methodology is required for understanding how it is possib...

Pretty much, yep. One point of view is to separate free from will, because as you say there are times when the will is not free at all, then define fr...

I figured as much, that you were intending “I can’t do this and that”. It would be semantically nit-picky, if we were talking about anything except th...

Hmmmm....... I can’t walk and walk. Isn’t that more incomprehensible than contradictory? I didn’t think comprehension to be the proper measure of cont...

It’s a fine line between comparison and relation. It suffices to say comparison, when the rational chronology is from knowledge backwards to perceptio...

Thanks to both. My literature and philosophical inclinations cross-reference with fdrake’s comment more than Issac’s, although each are interesting an...

I thought that was called a conditional. There are lawful conditionals, yes; “if/then” is merely a form of cause/effect, which has the power of law in...

Understood. The question then arises, how is it possible to distinguish whether concepts arise from different mechanisms, or concepts arise by degree ...

........which implies contingent rule; ......which implies necessary physical law. How can both inhere in a pure wetware environment? In effect, law i...

.......implies two separate and distinct mechanisms from which concepts arise. Is that what you meant to suggest?

Good enough for me. Which is indeed fortunate, because I do it all the time. Thanks.

Ahhhh, yes. The inevitable bane of subjectivity.

Ok, good on me!! YEA!!! Still, don’t we need conventional language for truth tables to have any meaning? I understand logical truisms to be guides for...