I think that art has always sought to be revolutionary - where it seeks to stabilise or consolidate a prevailing perspective, it quickly loses signifi...
There is a certain commercial value placed on entertainment in the arts that fails to distinguish between ignorance, escapism or denial of reality, tr...
When you stop to look at an artwork, it has succeeded in attracting your limited attention and effort. That’s a start. Aesthetic quality is based on f...
I find this to be a common misunderstanding of dimensions that consolidates ‘space’ within an aspect ‘time’. What we commonly refer to as ‘time’ presu...
The angle is atemporal, the thought is temporal. The ‘Bannings’ thread is opened by mods to discuss particular banning events, and is usually closed a...
Agreed. The value of altruism is NOT in how much we give or how much we do, but in how much anything we give or do increases the perceived potential o...
By the same token, we are constrained by determining judgement with respect to objects of sense, but judgement itself (on reflection) is not constrain...
Not just ‘attract attention’, but attention and effort towards understanding - this is how we learn about the world. A ‘judgement of beauty’ is part o...
I think ‘aesthetic quality’ is arguably not about what is judged ‘beautiful’, but about what attracts our attention and effort towards understanding w...
I think how we perceive the monetary system may be a reflection of how we relate our own perceived potentiality to the value structures of our socio-c...
I don’t think ‘simultaneously’ quite fits what I’m describing here - it seems like you’re trying to constrain this notion of ‘possibility/impossibilit...
I may be reading more into Kant than is warranted, but I don’t think he believed humans were as constrained by discursive understanding as CPR suggest...
A structural realist - I believe that the ‘independently existing reality’ we attempt to render is ontologically a relational structure, and nothing m...
I think perhaps a form of Creole or Pidgin would develop from goal-based concepts and the dynamics of relationships. If a woman in the group knows whe...
Nope. Wisdom is, in an objective, ontological sense, both possible and impossible. But I can’t relate to wisdom as both in any logical or practical se...
I think perhaps most of this disagreement comes from my perspective as an artist, mainly because you (and, it appears, also Kant) talk about art as if...
I don’t think it negates the validity of our investigations, it only renders those investigations a distortion of reality. They’re still valid, but we...
Yes - I wouldn’t argue against either claim. BUT if you choose to live by the truth that perfect wisdom is impossible, then I would argue that you lim...
Most judgements of art are not pure aesthetic judgements, but judgements of the agreeable or the good. That’s not to say the meaningfulness your frien...
Hang on - I’m not talking about a normative perspective, but the possibility of a normative understanding (a developing rationality) that seeks to ori...
I appreciate the efforts you are making here - my approach to this is far from conventional, so I’d never expect to be easily understood. Unfortunatel...
I don’t think we DO know for certain, because it will always be a mixture of both. Our subjectivity is the position from which we perceive meaning. We...
Your interpretation doesn’t help me out, Mr Martin - it might, however, convince others to judge the pursuit of wisdom as ‘impossible’, ‘unrealistic’ ...
No - what it means is that I inaccurately perceive my position as central to a normative understanding. How do you think Copernicus was able to struct...
Appreciation for music can be viewed similar to ignorance regarding members of a particular ethnic appearance, that they ‘all look alike’ - we haven’t...
Yes - in the first reading, we recognise that we perceive another person’s viewpoint from within our own, and so its perceived structure is based on d...
Sort of. We can think of it similar to a system’s capacity to render a three-dimensional image from photographs - the possibility of three-dimensional...
The definitive ‘wise man’ is a character of the imagination, in necessary relation to the faculties of understanding and judgement. But I think to dis...
Without trying to answer for @"jgill", I don’t think looking for ‘the wise man’ to solve our lack-of-knowledge issues is realistic. Wisdom is demonstr...
Wittgenstein’s example of ‘continuing a series’ refers to the difference between perceiving the properties of a variation occurring in a particular ev...
Would creative genius be content with inspiring critical assent? You say that “modern art expands and re-examines its own rational criteria in the mak...
This relates to the point that he’s making, though: ‘the number seven’ is not identical to its value, so 7=7 risks equivocation. It reminds me of the ...
Logic and language relies not just on representation, but on a potential relation to the possible existence of some as it is. Otherwise what IS the po...
I hear what you’re saying - but I don’t believe I’m throwing anything out. Incidentally, if I reveal that my position in this discussion is as an arti...
In my book, they don’t exist independently. It’s a claim to independence - a closed system of thought is never really closed, but exists in potential ...
I would argue that Kant is referring here not to some judgement, but to the self-conscious faculty of judgement as apodictic. Pure aesthetic judgement...
The ability to discuss anything rationally is not necessarily objective. When we render aesthetics in discussion, reduced to a particular language str...
I wouldn’t dismiss imagining so quickly. Potential in physics refers to a relational structure inclusive of the event and its pre-existing conditions,...
3. You tell the murderer that you’re not going to tell him where your friend is because you don’t want him to kill anyone. You’re good - you’ve fulfil...
Sure, but my point was that aesthetics extend beyond this universally valid ‘judgement of the beautiful’ that rests on an indeterminate concept, towar...
I think what Wayfarer keeps trying to point out is what I’ve highlighted in bold: the law of identity makes a statement about the nature of things wit...
Every time we predict or anticipate events, we posit a perspective outside the ‘flow of time’. And every time we test those predictions, we edit and r...
Kant refers to aesthetics to explore the faculty of judgement because the aesthetic experience transcends what we judge as ‘beauty’, as well as the co...
All three laws of logic aim to produce a closed system of thought - that’s what logic is. Quantum physics demonstrates the process of accurately align...
Why is omniscience recognising only what humans value, only logical rationality? Kantian ethics is constructed within a limited human perspective of v...
There are a lot of IFs being thrown around. We don’t have enough knowledge, and no way of knowing, if an objective morality exists, let alone how such...
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