Why would I, when no one asked me for it. And usually no one asks, for one of two reasons: no one cares enough, or, it’s so much easier to make fun of...
Now I can respond properly. First, in context with your other comments, re: the process of elimination: I don’t hold with consciousness to be the caus...
Freedom as a starting point to alleviate infinite regress with respect to understanding the world.......not so much, methinks. The world, conceptually...
Ahhh, ok. Dialectic courtesy says https://thephilosophyforum.com/profile/3486/echarmion has the right of way, with me just agreeing with a part of wha...
Did you intend this for me? I ask because I have no interest in free, but rather in freedom. And my posting history here makes clear I reject “free wi...
Well said. Freedom is not to be found in the list of a priori conceptions, that from which as you say, the very structure of the world is imposed by t...
Human rational agency naturally possesses both the capacity for morality, and its negation, equally, because of the intrinsically complementary nature...
“Are our minds souls?” Not if “soul” is the transcendental object necessary for the source and expression of feelings, but “mind” is the transcendenta...
I’d be very interested in being informed as to how I managed to do that. —————— Here I was thinking you were a metaphysician. Since when would a metap...
Well. If you didn’t dig any of that, you’re gonna really shake your head over this: No, my friend. This is where you’re mis-informed. I won’t say you’...
C’mon, man, really? Nonsense? Look at what you wrote...river still flows according to the direction of the tide. If the tide is the major determinant ...
The concept “flow” is a condition of the concept “river”, but it is not a necessary condition, for a river that does not flow, i.e., tidal access rive...
The term “free will” is a misnomer; there exists no such thing except as yet another mere convention or rationally lackadaisical habit. “Free will” is...
You speak of temporal displacement with respect to will, I speak of temporal displacement with respect to freedom. I never gave even a hint of anythin...
Times two. The accusations are false. I won’t bother with specifying the reverse. ——————- Which is an exact demonstration of the flaw in common unders...
It’s probably impossible to ever know why or how the phrase “degrees of freedom” was chosen to represent the observable conditions of a physical syste...
How very reminiscent of Hume-ian British Enlightenment empiricism are you!! How very reminiscent of Skinner-esque empirical psychology are you!!! It’s...
I would think. But in some defined coordinate system containing an observable object, the freedom it has is subject to the laws of the system, and the...
You know...I always thought that, too. But then I came across this “degrees of freedom” for showing coordinate dimensions in a phase space, and I got ...
Could be. Reason the verb critiques reasons as nouns. Reason is sufficient to prove that brain operation is conditioned by an empirical foundation, bu...
Lots out there that has..... what.....figured out how to do away with those sets of dualisms? This presupposes lots out there realize there are dualis...
Good. I couldn’t see it otherwise, myself, and agree it is not problematic in itself. Still, we are left with the fact “percepts” do not belong in the...
I can live with that. It simplifies to that which I see you enunciated in the next paragraph: “...basically remain true to oneself”. Although, I would...
I have no problem with libertarianism of the philosophical sort, re: Belsham, 1789. So saying, the libertarian premise of the non-anarchist personal a...
While I concur wholeheartedly with this, it does merely kick the metaphysical can down the transcendental road. There has to be some logically sustain...
You: Him: “....In whatsoever mode, or by whatsoever means, our knowledge may relate to objects, it is at least quite clear that the only manner in whi...
It was supposed to? Damn. I missed all the clues that would have informed me which of the author’s major or assorted minors were intentionally frivolo...
Ehhh.....I’m not really interested in subject qua subject, it being merely a necessary condition for the human cognitive process. And I’m not really i...
If you think that is the case, I have no problem with it; a guy can think whatever he likes. In keeping with the title of the thread, I will insist su...
I’d be very surprised if anybody does. I certainly don’t. Could be just a natural result of the plurality of extant physical conditions that makes it ...
Yeah, that’s pretty much standard, isn’t it? The more one voids philosophical predicates the more he leaves room for empirical predicates, if he choos...
Yes, we do. But those two are so different......... Depends on what you call preferences. If by preference is meant innate values, or moral predisposi...
You along with every physicalist/materialist worth his lab coat, property herein meaning something that belongs to a real substance. Not that you gave...
Mmmmm..........no. Never crossed my mind. If it had, I would’ve had to say that which exists truly does exist, but that which is true does not exist n...
Sorry, Arthur, but this understanding is self-contradictory. If noumena were the external reality then it would be of use to us necessarily. Noumena a...
Kant discusses sensory perception from one and only one context.....the possibility of, and the theoretical conditions for, empirical knowledge. Kant ...
Maybe....... ———————- ......maybe not. There’s nothing exceptional about humanity. It only does what it is capable of doing, just as does every other ...
First off......good post. .....compels defensive thinking, yes. Tries to plant theories into sacred foundational principles, not assumptions. A theory...
Yet particular members of the human species have been engaged in what has been conventionally established as the doing of science from at least the ea...
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