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I don’t care about any of this. It is absurd that one would consider that Kant thinks procreation to be an immoral act, and one who uses Kant to justi...

Close enough.

Which presupposes you think that Kant thinks no one should procreate. I mean, if it’s immoral, right? And how can a thing with no will be a member of ...

All I wanted to show was Kant wouldn’t consider the act of procreation, in and of itself, as immoral.

LOL. Yeah....you shoulda seen all the stuff I backspaced out on “perception”. Thanks for the interesting foray into the sublime. Peace.

Ehhhh....maybe, maybe not. Philosophically, reason is just skipping all the steps from which the experience arose, and bringing the end result back in...

Not a chance. The proposition only defines a negative logical boundary. ——————- It being introspection. Therein lay the whole problem. Imagination, an...

I’m inclined to agree, but I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.

Of course, but possibility can only be shown theoretically. It is impossible for any theory to attain to an empirical proof. We don’t KNOW how we thin...

Doesn’t matter if I agree with your terminology or not. Even so, if you don’t think reason, consciousness, plays any part in the perception of your in...

Absolutely. Just try introspecting about something the knowledge of which is impossible. Can’t be done. Try introspecting about something the knowledg...

Yes, I do that as well, after a fashion. I hold that knowledge is a condition of (the intellect), not an abstraction for (something to be gained). Rea...

I can see all that. I understand people think that way. Me...I keep my anthropology and empirical psychology away from my epistemological philosophy. ...

I know, huh? Leave it to a human to confuse himself. It’s not really his fault though; Mother Nature endowed him with reason, and it is reason he must...

The foundation proper of Kantian deontology has to do primarily with the transcendental freedom of the will necessarily, the conditional lawful moral ...

Ok. I would say introspection as a process leads to understanding of some knowledge we already have. —————- Sure, I would go along with that. Because ...

Rest assured it is not. Better not be; different experiences are all that’s available to us as different humans. —————- All that’s true, there’s no di...

It is interesting, and I appreciate exposure to it. The objections are strictly from a epistemological philosophy, not a psychological character evalu...

From Zeno’s shot arrow that doesn’t fly, to Russell’s barber shaving himself, logical paradoxes have been the bane to the dignity of philosophy for mi...

First you say...... ....then you say..... Which seems to say you think we can reason from observation independent of a mode of observation. Which is a...

Gonna have to object to that; I can safely say I’ve never seen myself think. I can imagine myself sitting on a rock, appearing to ponder this or that,...

Absolutely. I have to grant that because I can’t argue otherwise. At the very least, I might say you’re not putting assertions in logical arrangement ...

Agreed, to a point. Rationality doesn’t necessarily involve introspection. I think it important to reduce the idea one step further, insofar as when a...

Careful what you wish for. I’m retired and pretty lazy to boot, so I got all kinds of time to occupy myself with this stuff.

Exactly right. Technically, that procedure is called judgement, but what judgement is, is in effect just what you say.

Different aspects, yes; different processes, not so much. Different processes implies different methodologies. If one methodology is established as ra...

All good; nothing in there I would argue against, even if there are a plethora of finer points I might quibble over. And even if I did, nothing I woul...

Mmmm....yeah, me too. Wait. Are you old too?!?!? Bet I got you beat: my first new car was actually made in Detroit, and had fins!!! Maybe introspectio...

Thing is, about being old and all....I already have answers to both those questions. But it seems my answers aren’t in accord with current thinking. S...

I can agree with that. But perhaps you would agree that only works by using experience to qualify what you know to be the case presently. If you are m...

Sorry, but I’m old.....with all that implies......so I have to ask: has there come into vogue a school of Western philosophy that holds the act of int...

Oh, I correctly understood what you said alright, but apparently not what you meant by what you said. You asked for comment, so......I commented.

So instead of defining change, you’re going with the impossibility that a thing can be other than it is, and by that, denying change.

These are tautological, analytic, truths, because the negation of them is a contradiction. Other than that, they contain no information. Giving condit...

Oh. Sorry. You said the most concrete thing is our experience-ING, and the only aspect of experiencing that can be concrete, is the effect of objects ...

Ahhh...I see what you mean. Yes, the concreteness of brain activity gives us the basis of understanding, agreed. But I maintain that the basis for, is...

Isn’t it experience itself that is an abstraction? Whether the external object affects the brain and the corresponding state of the brain at that time...

Which sorta demonstrates the whole point: the methodology of physical science is not impeded in its investigation of physical objects, but it is certa...

No, philosophy doesn’t invent the fact of experience, even if it makes assorted attempts to identify the quality of it. I guess, simply put, I reject ...

When science tests for anything, it can only find the effects of natural law. Because consciousness must be a derivative of the brain, and the brain m...

Another interpretation, if I may: It is not the job of sensation to identify objects of perception, but to inform that an object is present. “...The e...

Anthropomorphism......science being pretentious because a human told it to.

Science is predicated on the scientific method, the major premise of which is predicated on observation. Observation of the human brain is by attachme...

Yeah, I have the 1905 “On The Electrodynamics......” paper, which I prefer for showing the refutation of Newtonian absolute time. Nevertheless, I don’...

I wouldn’t think so, but you never know.....maybe he’s got something cooking on the front burner here. On the other hand, choice certainly does requir...

Is this going to relate in the “Arguments For Free Will” category?

Knock yourself out.

Good post. Even if it had nothing to do with somewhat exonerating me, it would still be a good post. I gave an example. Another person said it made se...

I can’t lie.....my ego says thank you too. You know how they are.....nosey, noisy little buggers.

Thank you. Twice. Cuz now I don’t have to do it myself.