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Close enough. ———————— Abstraction has multiple meanings and applications, and as much as I detest running to a damn dictionary for clarification........
August 02, 2019 at 23:08
Granted, but what is a model but a construct? Whether model or construct presupposes that which is its cause, which in its turn presupposes a necessar...
August 02, 2019 at 10:52
I don’t do ribbons. Gold star, now. That’s worth awarding. Have a couple.
July 31, 2019 at 23:35
Minor distinction, perhaps. I consider projections of reality our expressions about it. Reality itself is that which is given to us. Reality comes in ...
July 31, 2019 at 23:32
Pretty much covers it, yep.
July 31, 2019 at 23:31
Well......there ya go. I’m a transcendental idealist, who must be an empirical realist by inclusion. I support different projections of reality, but a...
July 31, 2019 at 21:59
Certainly, if the constituency and manufacture of your house represents the shape of the your world. Shape stands for extension of objects in the worl...
July 31, 2019 at 20:32
I agree experience is all we have to work with empirically, but I wouldn’t call experience “data”. I understand you to mean the thinking subject draws...
July 31, 2019 at 20:01
Yes, albeit contingent. Multiple sources can be authoritative differently, thus sufficient differently. ————————- No. The former has knowledge of the ...
July 31, 2019 at 19:04
One minor consideration, if I may. All else being equal, it is impossible to cease thinking and remain a rational agent. If thinking is necessary, and...
July 31, 2019 at 17:04
Opinions might not be the best way to properly understand much of anything.
July 28, 2019 at 23:04
Truth is conditioned by thought, knowledge is conditioned by possibility; both are conditioned by time. I don’t see as one will ever be a requirement ...
July 28, 2019 at 12:32
“I can’t know that I know many things.” I can’t know that I know.....wait.....what????? I know I can’t know many things is a tautology; the negation o...
July 27, 2019 at 11:04
A naive realist has this factual edifice going for.....her, in that no matter what’s actually happening between our ears from which our abstractions a...
July 26, 2019 at 11:29
Oh, I suspect your smatterings and inklings are rather more substantial than you’d admit. That, or my readings of you hereabouts are grossly over-rate...
July 26, 2019 at 10:01
I accept your comment as stated. While I understand the Greek origins of noumena, and Kant’s intimate knowledge of the classic Greek metaphysicians, I...
July 25, 2019 at 21:43
There are none. The prerequisite for noumena is a kind of intuition, and by association, a kind of understanding, we don’t have. They are nothing but ...
July 25, 2019 at 15:23
Yeah....but it is odd. Naive realism from a psychological perspective emphasizes cognitive bias; naive realism from a philosophical perspective denies...
July 25, 2019 at 11:38
Understood, and agreed in principle. The basic premise remains that if we grant a distinction between how a thing appears to us and how it actually is...
July 24, 2019 at 14:02
In that trying, beware the bane of speculative philosophy.....the dreaded, but nonetheless ever-present, categorical error.
July 24, 2019 at 12:03
You spoke before of naive realism. Are you suggesting the modern rendition naive realism, is the same as the Enlightenment rendition transcendental re...
July 24, 2019 at 11:39
It has been the case forever, that human reason has the capacity to think anything it finds conceivable. So said, practically every notion in the OP i...
July 24, 2019 at 10:51
If the mind determines what first appears, we would know everything of every experience. The simplest way to look at it might be that the mind determi...
July 23, 2019 at 14:17
As much as I’d like to have a good reason (I spend all my time and draw all my quotes from the 1787 B edition, in which none of that appears) for not ...
July 23, 2019 at 11:16
Don’t know that Kant referred to naive realism or transcendental realism; he may have used different terms for those things, because technically speak...
July 22, 2019 at 12:10
I reject that a fact of the matter implicates a logical fallacy. Maybe I just don’t know how to write about it fault-free. Every human ever, otherwise...
July 22, 2019 at 09:56
Agreed, that is a major problem. On the rest.....we see the same thing with different eyes. Nothing remarkable about that.
July 21, 2019 at 23:57
If you and I, and by association you and Janus, can agree that the term “perspective” denotes a particular attitude or opinion about a thing, and we e...
July 21, 2019 at 17:35
Pretty much, with a couple minor caveats: Yes, the mind synthesizes the phenomenal object, However, there is some controversy on the Kantian rendition...
July 21, 2019 at 15:29
Are you not being a little harsh, perhaps? If there is at least one irrefutable commonality in human reason, wouldn’t the concept, or just the idea, o...
July 21, 2019 at 12:34
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I’m not sure Kant outright rejects what is these days is considered a naive realist point of view, or, which is...
July 21, 2019 at 11:51
As you probably know, the first critique is 700-odd pages and took ten years to compose, and included in there, in order to fulfill the..... “...compl...
July 20, 2019 at 17:49
If you treat free will as a catch-phrase instead of an a priori conception qualified by a transcendental idea..... ........you might be a metaphysical...
July 20, 2019 at 11:35
2 One man’s mess is another man’s Voluntary Diaspora Toward Infinite Becoming.
July 20, 2019 at 11:27
Deleted, cuz phat phingers made a mistake and fixing it wasn’t working......
July 19, 2019 at 18:01
“......The undetermined object of an empirical intuition is called phenomenon....” While it is true that without humans there is no phenomenal domain,...
July 19, 2019 at 16:05
I don’t know so much about Husserl, but I’m pretty sure Kant wouldn’t go so far as to say the transcendent is necessary for experience. ————————————- ...
July 17, 2019 at 10:39
Agreed. Looking back, after recognizing the empirical truth of some proposition, and then saying such truth was always the case, or the conditions tha...
July 10, 2019 at 10:55
Not really that much of a deal, given the Big Picture. Human empirical knowledge, that is, what we think of as true as detailed in propositions, is ab...
July 10, 2019 at 10:28
Wha......that was all you were trying to get across the first time? Ok, fine. At least I see a way clear of that aporia issue. Which leaves us with......
July 10, 2019 at 10:12
I never took you for such an epistemic nihilist. You done went and killed off knowledge!!!! Riddle me this, my good man: If the general expression X +...
July 09, 2019 at 23:25
I don’t care who y’are; that right there was funny. I shall not rain on your well-organized parade, but I do wonder about that aporia thing. Just seem...
July 09, 2019 at 21:31
Ruunnn......rabbit run!! Dig that hole, forget the sun.... (Sigh)
July 09, 2019 at 21:19
I like it. Most of it.
July 09, 2019 at 11:13
Suit yourself.
July 07, 2019 at 01:37
Interesting.
July 06, 2019 at 21:04
The same place everything else human comes from, that isn’t fully and sufficiently biologically/physiologically explanatory.......pure reason. Yeah ye...
July 06, 2019 at 15:18
A week ago I wrote, “Understood, and accepted......as far as it goes.”, in response to practically the same point you’re making here. Nevertheless, I ...
July 06, 2019 at 13:56
Some truth values are a matter of judgement. I am well aware that “Terrapin Station” is the name of a 1977 Grateful Dead album (I owned it on 8-track,...
July 06, 2019 at 12:21
It does not follow from the availability of an innate capacity, that it’s proper employment is thereby given. “.....A physician therefore, a judge or ...
July 06, 2019 at 11:59