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By this I understand you to mean the conditional “if p then q” does not translate into natural language. If so, I agree, for formal logic is empty of ...

Sorry....that flew right over my head. Are you asking me to reword the statement “ all effects must have cause” to validate its truth value? I don’t k...

What am I missing, such that you would say yes, but I would say no?

And now Tim got there first; I also wish a clarification of.....what he said. I am going to allow you the chance to notice the very specific qualifier...

Kantian epistemological philosophy is predicated exclusively on reason and logic, of which “all events must have a cause” is the foremost rendering of...

1.) The evidence is out there for anyone to see, that of all the trades available for human endeavor, philosophers tend to pick on each other moreso t...

Understood. If the premise had been, “can reason and logic explain that which is present to human observation or mere thought” I wouldn’t have been so...

Yeah, but it isn’t. Mental machinations resulting in observable conditions, sure. Tickle this part of the brain, my toes wiggle. Measure 16 phosphorus...

Odd, isn’t it? How inherently circular, that reason gives us the means to talk about itself.

Twelve pages of philosophy done right, worthy of a subtle nod from the back of the room. Subjectively speaking, of course. Carry on..........

Both reason and logic are nothing more than theoretical a priori processes in the human rational system. They don’t explain anything in and of themsel...

Reason: the name given to the highest faculty of a human subject, to which all others are subordinated. One is ill-advised to use Descartes or Hume to...

I have to admit a knowledge of S to be decidedly less than a knowledge of K. But I do know S was just as much a transcendental idealist as K, based hi...

Intellect. The objective reality of a thing cannot be demonstrated as necessary by pure practical reason, without first being conceived as possible by...

Concur. Qualia: what gets invented when “representation” isn’t good enough.

Eye’s mind. I like it!! Reason’s greatest teaching tool: euphemism.

While technically not education per se, as a formal discipline, I tend toward being instructed by a particular kind of philosophy, rather then educate...

Hmmm...... Can chaos be designed? If order implies design, and if everything is ordered, wouldn’t chaos be impossible?

Sorry....what dichotomy are we talking about here? Yeah, I suppose. Still, anyone living life, no matter the how, if he should internally examine any ...

Thanks, but with Kant, one is not often sure he’s got it right. Mostly his fault, though.....he didn’t write for us common folk, doncha know. He wrote...

An intuition does not become knowledge; it is the first stage in representing a real external object of which we may have a posteriori knowledge. We “...

I guess I was thinking the possession of a good will does not predict with certainty a man will act in accordance with its volitions. He ought to, sur...

Ok, fine then. I’ll credit you for putting forward a worthwhile subject for discussion. Seems to be a dearth of them, if anyone were to ask me. Which ...

D’accord. As long as things are qualified by “we can say...”. Or at least carry that tacit implication.

Yeah, I feel ya. We are simply abbreviating “the totality of conditions adverse to survival” and conceive “danger” by it. Non-rational animalia do nei...

That’s actually pretty good.

Oh man...a real wordsmith, I must say. William of Warwickshire ain’t got nuttin’ on that. Well....maybe a little. Here and there. No, I’m guessing not...

A.) Because of the quote: nothing can be considered good except the will, which is presupposed in the being of a moral agent. This must include the ma...

HA!!! Good one. The will is the ideal good, yes. Good without expectation of return. There is an argument, or maybe just an interpretation, that if mo...

As it should be, methinks, it being a transcendental conception, meaning it has no object belonging to it necessarily. Others similar being, i.e., pos...

This is....almost....correct, from a very specific and quite narrow moral point of view, but merely highlights the care one should take in formulating...

Hmmm.......I guess my predicaments weren’t sufficiently terrible? Sure seemed that way at the time. Just how terrible does a situation have to be to d...

Yes, but mean-ness could also be pathological, in which case explanations from psychology holds sway. Humans are seldom entirely arrogant, which is an...

Mean-ness can be thought as describing a subjective feeling under the umbrella of arrogance. Being mean is the manifestation of mean-ness, and takes i...

Oh, but it was certainly sound to all those considering it. It would have been impossible for them to think it wasn’t. In its time, it was the rule; i...

If all thought/belief is, is the correlation between perceptible things, then all I need to know language-less creatures possess thought/belief, is to...

Hey....you told me to imagine, I did, and the product of the imagining was sufficiently explained by instinct. There haven’t yet been any terms to ref...

Ok, but.....what things? So “what things” are things directly perceptible. Ok. Does that mean non-linguistic creatures can’t remember things?

Point: Counterpoint: Except when the statement was never true in the first place, re: in the case of the time-evolved knowledge that conditions the pr...

For the language-less creature, it is sufficient to say his correlations are given from instinct. Is it not an error of equivocation, to suggest that ...

I’m going with “understanding”. Just a guess. I’d rather be informed of what it consists of, to tell the truth.

As far as I’m concerned, a conversation doesn’t have to be eventually productive as it has to first be interesting. And what interests me about your a...

Oh. Well....good luck, then.

A proper report must change the truth conditions of that which is being reported upon, if the truth conditions being reported upon are known with cert...

Nahhhh, I don’t think I will. Natural condition modifies human, i.e., the general, empirically real, phenomenon; sub-system of intrinsic values modifi...

WHEW!!!! When someone who is historically concise, intelligible, insightful, makes what seems like a mistake, makes me wonder if I made the mistake in...

.....when thinking about thought/belief, yes. The proverbial voice in my head, the private monologue, the alleged “dreams of spirit seekers”; its name...

On pg 24, my initial question was...... ......and you answered..... ......then, sorry, no. Well......sorta. I understand you must define such a value ...

Sorry to interrupt, but..... Paranthesizing “what is beyond our experience and understanding” and placing it after “transcendental” doesn’t allow the ...

You are correct about the spatial ordering of the words of the statement. I asked you to be aware of a temporal order. I apologize for not making it u...