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['Member']Joined: December 22, 2018 at 18:02Last active: February 25, 2026 at 21:03None discussions5421 comments

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It’s much more than a passage. He re-wrote in B all of A95-130. That the guy that came up with all this had to re-do most of it, in the name of clarit...
February 20, 2026 at 15:01
I gotta say….all that follows from what you said there, fits my mindset, and I have no qualms calling myself an idealist. Certain brand thereof perhap...
February 16, 2026 at 12:29
Enrichment, yes; made possible at the minimum by whatever the experienced sensation is, even if judgement of the sensation remains uncertain. They can...
February 09, 2026 at 21:44
Well said. I, on the other hand, would un-relate experience from sensation, leaving sensation itself as a member of your levels. Experience then becom...
February 09, 2026 at 18:52
The thesis under duress here is perception, and the relative directness of it, given the title of the thread. The structure of cognition is something ...
February 09, 2026 at 15:31
Yes. Five physiological devices, each modality unlike the other, by which the external becomes internal. Then what of sensation?
February 09, 2026 at 12:14
On Martin: I’m fine with the naive realist’s position that the senses are that by which we are directly and immediately aware of things, but deny such...
February 07, 2026 at 20:01
It is assumed the thing has been at 10m for sufficient time, re: >/= 10s, given the velocity stipulation, otherwise its appearance to sensibility woul...
February 07, 2026 at 13:16
Kant convinces us….as much as metaphysical doctrine is convincing at all….apple is precisely and only what we do know; what the mere invented word rep...
February 02, 2026 at 12:54
Yeah, standard state of affairs, right? Human subjectivity…the bane and the blessing of philosophical discourse. Have fun with it, I say
January 19, 2026 at 17:57
With respect to the Kantian system for human empirical knowledge, sensibility in general is that part of the system having to do with bridging the ext...
January 19, 2026 at 12:20
“… In this investigation it will be found that there are two pure forms of sensible intuition as principles of a priori cognition, namely space and ti...
January 17, 2026 at 12:59
That nothing in the world changes is impossible; things in relation to the impossible are unintelligible. The sun doesn't rise. I don’t agree Kant sai...
January 17, 2026 at 01:38
Time is not a cause of sensation, thus is not a perception. What is typically referred to as the passage of time, is one of the common ways of speakin...
January 16, 2026 at 17:29
Time doesn’t change at all; one moment is exactly the same as every other. The changes in intuitions is from changes in perception. We perceive things...
January 16, 2026 at 13:45
“….The difficulty presented by this problem consists, as is well known, in the presumed difference in kind between the object of inner sense (the soul...
January 15, 2026 at 16:03
Individual rational beings in general implies every individual rational being, yes. Yes, only insofar as individual rational beings are contingent, an...
January 15, 2026 at 12:09
Ok. Thanks.
January 14, 2026 at 17:10
This just says we can think noumenon simply because we exist. With respect to the real world in general, why would anyone care that he is acquainted, ...
January 14, 2026 at 13:03
Understanding, the faculty of thought, the objects of which are representations, cannot think the object that is a subject, a subject that thinks and ...
January 13, 2026 at 20:29
I suspect you’d clearly see it isn’t, when you understand we’re talking about two completely different domains of discourse, given from two distinctly...
January 13, 2026 at 15:59
From the movie “Wargames”, in my best WOPR computer voice, “would you like to play a game?”. Your last is a transcendental illusion, a paralogism of p...
January 13, 2026 at 11:59
Yes, I know, but the thing’s identity as itself, the first law of rational thought, is not what the transcendental idea “in-itself” is about. It is re...
January 13, 2026 at 11:10
Cool. Making sense for somebody, isn’t attempting to make him believe… …just like that.
January 12, 2026 at 22:47
Since when is, or could ever be, a paradigm shifting speculative metaphysics a model? If there’s never been anything like it, what is it supposed to b...
January 12, 2026 at 22:16
Never said it was; perception, on the other hand, is. Sensibility, the faculty of receptivity of representations, cannot be as physiological as the se...
January 12, 2026 at 17:08
If the “in-itself” is to be considered as an idea, it can only be so as an act of reason, for understanding, the source of empirical conceptions, does...
January 12, 2026 at 15:53
It being the world; the world arises from. Ok, it doesn’t, that notwithstanding, how would it work in order to be the case? His doesn’t say, and his s...
January 11, 2026 at 16:46
Yes, he was. For those liking their physics complicated. You’re taking things into a realm I don’t care anything about. It’s highly unlikely I’ll be d...
January 11, 2026 at 16:05
Hmmm…..the in-itself is purely conceptual, as a mere notion of the understanding, thus not real, so of the two choices, and in conjunction with concep...
January 11, 2026 at 15:16
I think I’m ok with that. Earth’s magnetic field and gravitational field are in the same space. But the particles associated with those fields are not...
January 10, 2026 at 22:24
Correct, he does not want to be thought of as a full-blown idealist. He does, on the other hand, state for the record (A370), of all the idealist doct...
January 10, 2026 at 20:17
He didn’t believe it; he stated for the record that nothing can be known of noumena as a logical deduction in accordance with a theory he himself cons...
January 10, 2026 at 17:00
Why can’t two things occupy the same field without occupying the same space? If the sun’s light is a field projected from itself, how can it occupy th...
January 10, 2026 at 16:40
This is some good stuff, I must say. Well-thought, well-written. Two relatively minor counterarguments, if I may: One, at the beginning, where you rel...
January 10, 2026 at 16:20
True enough, but my response would be….my experiences are not on so small a scale. I remember reading…a million years ago it seems….if the nucleus of ...
January 10, 2026 at 14:01
Tautologically true; we’re here, for which some explanation is necessary.
January 09, 2026 at 18:48
Me: ….impossibility to know the truth of an explanation. You: …impossibility to know an explanation; Me: ….proof of an explanation. You: …absence of a...
January 09, 2026 at 17:06
Passage. Movement. Passage of time, movement of time, movement of an infinite immaterial. Irrational. Passage. Change. Change of time. Change of a mot...
January 09, 2026 at 15:38
Isn’t the mere observation of difference outside the intellect sufficient reason for its creating a relation representing that difference, within itse...
January 08, 2026 at 14:11
Yeah, my fault. I never should have gone so far into the metaphysical weeds, probably further than required for grasping the OP’s basic ideas, and cer...
January 07, 2026 at 20:15
The OP concerns itself with time. The type of objection subsequently raised, re: existential contingency of sentient beings, and therefrom better atte...
January 06, 2026 at 18:21
The OP and its arguments have nothing to do with the being or becoming of, hence attempts no explanation for the existence of, any kind of creature, i...
January 06, 2026 at 15:02
Good. In addition, time as a pure transcendental conception, is that by which logical inference is validated, and that, in turn, falsifies what is cla...
January 06, 2026 at 12:13
Some background: ….300 years ago, physical science, while no longer in its infancy, was nonetheless still a toddler, and of more significance than wha...
January 04, 2026 at 17:56
I can do that. It’ll be here by the time you get back tomorrow.
January 03, 2026 at 23:57
Hmmm. I guess my view would be that I don’t have one? I can’t make positive judgements with respect to spiritual states or higher consciousness, insof...
January 03, 2026 at 23:49
Ok, good to know. And this is what Kastrup says? Or what Kastrup says Schopenhauer says? I’d agree will is not noumena, but would argue S says will is...
January 03, 2026 at 21:54
I have no warrant for rejecting the validity, or indeed even the constitution, of resident consciousness in other human subjects, but I am perfectly w...
January 03, 2026 at 14:53
I thought about applying some pure reason to this universal consciousness idea, but….turns out…it’s too much like aspens communicating with each other...
January 02, 2026 at 14:53