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Wonder. And the suspected deficiency thereof. Might that be your bridge to the phenomenological “self-meditation”, by which one “….is able to liberate...

Not much rescuing of the subject there, insofar as the subject still has the functional necessity for understanding the content the study of looking i...

(ever-so-slight nod, from the back of the room)

Not talking about an item.

Dunno if he states that unequivocally, but if his notion of absolute time is justified, then one has no logical recourse but to agree that time is ind...

…..how can it possibly be independent of us?

Cool. Thanks. I can dig the union (unity, if I may be so bold) of knower and known, but I’d like to see intellectual space allotted for procedure.

Even if philosophical detachment doesn’t presuppose the division, does it arrive at it through some form of logical inference?

Yeah, he would. With the provisio that “checks out” is relative to a specific theoretical framework. Within the confines of that same framework, it fo...

Good quote.

Safe bet, go all in. Wife’s car. That autographed Roger Maris 59th. First-born. What appears is the thing, that which effects the senses, the material...

I’ve already stated that appearance is that which is an effect on the senses, as input; appearances, then, and the senses can be said to be “out there...

No, that doesn’t follow at all. That’s like saying an ice cube is noumenal because it shatters when hit by a hammer. ————- In the faculty of intuition...

True enough, plus, words often get defined in order to accommodate a project. I’ve already mentioned the difference in meaning for the word appearance...

First off….nothing following is meant to change your favored philosophy. You know yours as well as I know mine, and we can forgive each other for our ...

Perhaps. In Kantian metaphysics, though, the notion of appearance is merely intended to grant ontology in general, which serves to limit metaphysics t...

If such were the case, though, you’d have a logically consistent answer regarding when a mistake is known to have been made. Don’t blame ya; I’m not e...

What are you guys calling “appearance”? The context of your dialogue obtains from Kant’s notion of intuition with respect to the world, in which appea...

Yep, pretty much where I’m coming from. Self-awareness implies sensibility; self-consciousness implies logical thought. Doubt, insofar as it is a rela...

I’d go with self-consciousness myself, rather than self-awareness. Self-something, at any rate.

Interesting interpretation, I must say. I’ll have to think about it, try to find some correspondence with the relevant text.

Ok. That’s all I was asking. ————- “…. In order to have a complete description of the motion, we must specify how the body alters its position with ti...

Agreed; couldn’t be otherwise. I’m a little particular about descriptions of what there is to work with, those necessary conditions, and how they are ...

So what happened to spatial movements making the concept of time necessary, rather than merely secondary? Where can I read about the reducing of time ...

Hmmm….dammit, you’re right, I forgot about that. In the strictest possible sense of spatial continuity, yours is the stronger for being deferred to th...

As usual, you present interesting stuff, to which I like to think out loud about. To think out loud should not be construed to mean criticism, which w...

….dull reductions to "observation + modeling”…..sounds about right to me. I’d add in “experimenting”, and the whole process doesn’t have to be dull, n...

Agreed. Kinda agreed. I’d be more inclined to grant to the concept of matter the underpinning for spatial continuity allowing a body to have an identi...

I’m not sure realism has much to do with it, whereas the primary source of it, its fundamental causality, does. “…. Such is the artificial contrivance...

Lots commendable in the WWR excerpt, but for this: Each conscious being indeed maintains the form, the condition, of its world in accordance with its ...

Sure, no prob. The human can only account for his world in his own terms, and whatever the difference between his terms and Nature’s, cannot be determ...

I think science did more than anything else to liberate the intellect, yes. ————- I’m not sure he could do otherwise, could he? I guess I’m of the min...

The interesting part? Science let it be known humans could have things, could do things, entirely on their own, or at least enough on their own to cal...

When the topic of this discussion was current affairs, religion ruled the day, hence, one couldn’t stray too far from it and maintain his cultural sta...

#34 a “….. Before we proceed any farther it is necessary we spend some time in answering objections which may probably be made against the principles ...

Oh, no real reason. It’s just that’s not the way humans normally do things.

…..and with that, I’m out.

Nahhhh….I ain’t doin’ that. Language use is tough enough without that nonsense. Sorry. ————- Sorry for the delay; I changed my mind regarding the type...

Yes, an activity of the faculty of understanding, which makes thought an object, or product of the activity, hence, a noun. Even to say I think someth...

Thanks for that, but we all know stuff expressed in here is mere opinion, however well-supported. And we all know there’s no substitute for first-hand...

This is contradictory. If I haven’t seen a thing before, I can’t say it looks like one I have. If I’ve not seen this cat, but I’ve seen those cats, I’...

Oh man. One but not the other. Possible but not simple. Very little in Kant is simple. “…thought is cognition by means of conceptions….” (A69/B94), fr...

Personally, I think it warrants the weight, and a perfect example for why I wholeheartedly detest OLP, but simply dismiss analytic philosophy. More th...

I canceled probably 3 full pages here, because the arguments therein were Kantian, in opposition to the main character in the thread. Threads are inva...

Yes, what some term a priori cognition under empirical conditions. Nevertheless I can’t think a possible cat a priori without having the antecedent ex...

Close enough. Everything my form of intelligence does, is predicated on representation, despite what the materialists or spiritualists would have me t...

Yeah, I suppose, when I think about what another person thinks iff he speaks of it. I don’t think it’s the view that invokes the nonsense, in that a v...

I’m not sure. When he says… “…. And I use “consciousness” to designate a genus of which thought, judgment, knowledge are species….” (1.4, pg 4) ….it a...

But I said consciousness of the one but not of the other. The activity belongs to understanding; consciousness of the occurence of the activity, is me...

Which one isn’t? Yeah, I kinda got that from him, too. But thing is….nobody does that. Or, to be fair, I question whether anybody does. Using your exa...