One never thinks about the physicality of getting a fork to his mouth, but let something go haywire, and he invariably recalls the very physicality in...
Nothing is ever written, spoken or displayed, that isn’t first thought. Seems like we should analyze how we came to our thoughts before we analyze how...
They are not, necessarily. Any analytic proposition is true in itself, without judgement related to it. “All bodies are extended”, “A = A” require no ...
Now, now....go easy on the po’ boy. He’s just jealous there isn’t a decent naive realist philosopher that can’t be run aground by even a mediocre Kant...
Mark me up in that column as well. All that is required for facts and truths to arise may very well be extant, but in their own natural form, not in s...
The proper dialectically consistent response to a proposition with a singular conception in its predicate (truth is a judgement), is with a predicate ...
OK, I accept that. I’d rather go with truth is a cognition. Judgement is always the means, truth is only one of three possibly ends, along with falsit...
Yeah, there’s always been a philosophy built on that idea, from Anaxagoras to Hegel. Could be, I dunno. I guess it depends on what one chooses for his...
There is that, but humans always seek truth, yet have no access to the transcendent. So if truth somehow reside in, or is predicated on, that which we...
Agreed. Judgements are not described as truth. A state of affairs empirically, or analytic propositions a priori, are described as truths. ———————- I ...
Very well, but are you not then left with the need to show how it is true that something has participated in it? In effect, would you not have to judg...
Ahhhh.....I see what you mean. Yes, well, the human cognitive system is for the most part purely speculative in its fundamental operations. So it may ...
I don’t see a prevarication, or equivocation. I don’t judge the proposition/state of affairs duality for its correspondence, but rather I judge the su...
Guy calls me up, says....dude, guess what? The cat’s on the mat. What else could I say but....wonderful. Glad to hear it. There’s no way possible for ...
Absolutely. And, as if that wasn’t enough, it does not follow necessarily, that because empirical claims are unprovable, and the concept of freedom is...
Correspondence: whether or not, and the manner in which, a proposition relates to a state of affairs; Proposition: a declarative subject/predicate lin...
That every thing has a spatial and temporal location is merely the convention of human intelligence, as the means to show position of objects relative...
Understood, and accepted......as far as it goes. I attest that I do not always think in sentences yet I hold a whole passel of self-evident truths. Am...
I think of consciousness as the relative state of being conscious, just as redness is the relative state of being red, as fitness is the relative stat...
Thought is the primary post-survival functionality of rational beings. It is the ground of all conscious activity, which, ironically enough, includes ...
Sorry......I’m missing halfs. For my benefit alone, and for no particular reason other than peace of mind....what are the halfs you had in mind? Gener...
Please. Allow me? None at all. The things that make a thing a “rock”, that is, a general representation of a real kind of material object in the world...
We need free will because: the source is exactly the same for when we fuck up or when we do good. This is mighty handy because it restrains the holier...
OK, fine. I’m busted: it isn’t a transcendental illusion, exactly. Well....actually, it is, but only because I took the scenario further than my origi...
Because pummeling deceased equines is eventually quite messy........... You mentioned noumena a couple times. What do you think they are, and from tha...
Please permit me to backtrack: The “array of certain conceptions” which “serve to constrain” the understanding within its logical bounds, are the cate...
I understand reason already inquires as to itself, attempts to discern its own nature. But in doing so, reason may exercise its intrinsic capacity to ...
A notion is a conceptualized idea, re: quantity, possibility, existence, etc., and for which no representation is given. Any judgement grounded on an ...
The opening salvo makes clear that ain’t gonna happen. Kant never says the senses are imprecise.... (“no consideration is here made of optical illusio...
Judgement. The faculty whereby a conception is cognized as belonging to its object. The limit of understanding is, therefore, where judgement does not...
Yes, I hold with an unassailable boundary for understanding, a limit, the overstepping of which leads to illusion in the form of cognitions with the i...
I understand this as an attempt to report that the conditions for an analytic proposition, tautological expressions in general the contradictions of w...
Briefly, with respect to the explanation for my query, you added “no longer conditioned by the subject”, but the original proposition IS conditioned b...
It’s all good; you added schema to the list of references. I’m happy now. I could use some help with the #4 in your first post. One can conceive an in...
I grant your thesis pt-2 parenthetical; it conforms to my understanding of noumena, keyword: independent of representation. I will nevertheless insist...
Yeah, but the reference should be to schema, not noumenon. All that is intimated by the thesis presented here has to do with empirical knowledge, for ...
No, objectivity and truth are not the same. Objectivity is a judgement of negation, in which content is given (no opinion about objects has intrinsic ...
Sorry. I just couldn’t help it. I had to, I just HAD to....... “.....For this reason, when it happens that there exists only a single word to express ...
I can live with it. These are, after all, just philosophical musings, with no life or death or similarly catastrophic implications. Not to mention.......
I don’t think about ontology that much; whatever I want to know about empirically presupposes the existence or possible existence of it, whatever its ...
Tough mentally, no doubt. Between pissing off the clergy (busted on his Master’s thesis by Piest academia) and being somewhat contrary to Newton (the ...
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