I would say we shouldn’t. Any sound philosophical position would seem to require either subscribing to a method which grounds it, or actually being a ...
Easy. All you gotta do is figure out that you don’t have to will yourself to be a scientist. If you do science properly, which presupposes you know ho...
It isn’t a type of knowledge; it is an understanding. From a past to a future, the regressive series of conditions (from any now to any before now**) ...
Even if we are not free with respect to a certain obligatory action, it is only because the will is free to determine what that obligation ought to be...
While I might agree some brain states are experimentally quantifiable, insofar as reactive indicators are present for observation, I disagree that pur...
A sort of logical desperation on both sides: the materialist insists the brain is the source of the illusion of subjective experience because both res...
The requirement of a second thing that experiences the truth of a world of one thing, at the same time contradicts it. World herein taken to mean a pe...
What metaphysics is, is directly related to whom one is reading; there isn’t a cut-and-dried definition for it, because it changes over time. Accordin...
It is rather obvious Hegel was considered a philosopher. I don’t recall seeing a list of philosophers in which his name wasn’t included. But I was tak...
On the idea of the correct-ness of concepts: Concepts are nothing but half a relational proposition, from which a cognition becomes possible, the othe...
Rather than the requirement to show the nature of OR, wouldn’t it suffice to show the limits of AR? If AR could be shown to be insufficient for episte...
True, IFF we’re forcing a science of metaphysics into the mould of empirical science, but we’re not because the two are mutually exclusive. The criter...
I find it odd that the human mind, a generic placeholder for the totality of intellect, is required for any scientific thought, and the same human min...
This is true, if one considers the fact that no empirical science whatsoever, is ever done that isn’t first thought. Even if all empirical science is ...
Metaphysics wouldn’t hold with peer reviewed, experimentally grounded predictions for the explanation of observations, so metaphysics wouldn’t be an e...
The present dialogue is with respect to Kant, what he said and the perspective from which what he said, came. Hence, he is saying it never WAS a scien...
It wasn’t just plain ol’ no, because that wasn’t the question he actually asked. “...Yet, in a certain sense, this kind of knowledge is to be looked u...
True enough. But there is a judicial system now, and there was in Greek antiquity as well. Besides, you’re on record has denying a priori determinatio...
I don’t suppose a real thing such as a man, to be passive stuff upon whom is imposed a form of justice, that shapes him in some way? Wrong kind of sha...
Can we say matter can be passive in its reception of an imposed form? How is the form imposed? Where does the imposed form originate? What forces are ...
Experience is knowledge, knowledge is the reception and processing of intelligible information. The total of possibilities in reality are inversely pr...
Now you’re saying, . To me, “it” in this instance is reality, which gives us the more reality is specified the fewer reality’s remaining possibilities...
Let it be granted that the will is to feelings as the intellect is to cognition. Let it be granted that the will controls some feelings and is control...
I understand all that. I prefer my logical essences, however, reside in intuition, given from experience, which is given from sense data. That way, I ...
It is certainly an epistemological hierarchy, and I suppose one could call it an ontological one as well, although purely rational philosophy just gra...
Hmmmm........ The mentioned mental constructs, re: space, time, points of reference, are not of the same larger world as the experienced; they are the...
Because it is true , we arrive at: ..........becomes reason may subsequently convert sensory experience to knowledge. ..........becomes knowledge *of*...
As well you should. The first critique, from which the philosophy of transcendental idealism is born and raised, has nothing to do with social redempt...
OK. I can handle that. ——————— Handling that well too, I am. ———————- OK. The latter being the unconscious or autonomic condition, the former being th...
Kantian speculative philosophy, and Enlightenment philosophy in general, tacitly presupposes the human mind. There is mounds of theoretical exposition...
Exactly, methinks. We directly perceive, but indirectly apprehend. As dpolis says, we add elements from within us. Which is the fundamental principle ...
Yes. Although as Janus pointed out to me a while ago, while he fully admits to it in the 1781 edition, as quoted below, he does not go so far in the 1...
Fine. Again. Square one. So what mechanism does reality use to project itself? Why don’t we just say reality appears to us, rather than projecting its...
Gimme back those gold stars. You haven’t said anything that isn’t reducible to human cognition. I asked for the mechanism for reality projecting itsel...
Ergo, reality ceases to exist when there isn’t any? Or reality is still all there, just doesn’t project itself in the absence of wavelengths we can se...
Fine. It’s a free country, doncha know. Plus Brentano is all of half a century more modern than that crazy old fart from PRUSSIA, which doesn’t even e...
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