The question makes little sense to my mind. Things can only disappear or appear for perceivers. Yes, but for the world to exist it doesn't need to app...
Except what if there is nothing besides nature as it appears to us? Away with the noumenon/phenomenon distinction. The noumenon doesn't exist in the s...
I agree to this. I don't agree to this, and I think this is Spinoza's point with regards to absolute necessity - existence necessarily is creative. I ...
>:O >:O >:O >:O What does this mean? Does this mean that if I go in a straight like I will return ultimately to the point I started from? Yes it does....
Well I dislike movies and TV completely. I almost never watch. Movies are only fun if you watch them with someone you're close to - then it's like liv...
I think video-games for example aren't great (I don't play any myself), but they're preferable to doing a lot of other worse things. So a joke which e...
You realise all these are nothing except useful fictions which we have invented in order to conceptualise our measurements, and create a system which ...
To add a bit more about this - I think some thinkers were fundamentally right - maybe not right in the details, but fundamentally right, regardless of...
Very strange, I was never warned about your message here at all. First time I see it was now, accidentally while browsing through. I've never said thi...
Ah I see, okay Well yes, objectively it doesn't matter. Imagine for a moment you are Bill Gates, you are so rich, you don't need to work for another d...
Well see, this is what I don't like about Hegel personally. I don't view history as having a direction - as being a dialectic headed somewhere. It's n...
I mean, especially if she has this Mojo... http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/powerpuff/images/c/c9/Mojo_jojo_aparincia2.png You don't really wanna m...
So for being an idiot, he gets called a genius? :P Kant wasn't as revolutionary as you and Wayfarer make him sound like, I lean towards TGW here. Of c...
Same. Same. Same. Nope! X-) Yes. Yes! Nope! Guns are good, how else are folks gonna defend themselves? Same. Only that you're not very vocal about it....
I'm with him on this: http://i68.tinypic.com/motar.png Life is what you do while you're waiting to die. There's no point in suicide, because you're go...
This sounds much like the slave who, when his master decides to free him, cannot bear to be freed, and begs for the chains not to be taken off :P Pers...
Fuck it man, what's the reason not to go on living? What's the reason to quit life? Living is your default state. You need a reason to change somethin...
Oh my days Thorongil, I consider myself quite a literate person in philosophy, and I have never even heard of those two figures! :-O Thanks for the re...
Suck it up Wayfarer - it's not about people being scared at all, it's just that some forms of social organisation ain't working. When I want to contro...
Yeah I don't agree with the "extra-mental" part, which is extra-rational, simply because it doesn't make much sense to me what that would be or could ...
If you work at a research institute, or know someone who does, you can pretty much get free access to any of them :P I agree with the rest of your poi...
How can you do that? :s I can never listen to philosophy while I do work - if I do that, then I don't understand anything of it. Is your work in the g...
I don't have much time now, but basically a few comments: That's an argumentum ad hominem - not an intellectual reason for disagreeing with Scholastic...
But philosophical history ended with Hegel, so then Chomsky is irrelevant. Not worth studying, according to Hegel himself. So to study him would indee...
No he can't. A Pyrrhonist doesn't doubt in the absence of reason(s). He must have reason for that doubt, the mere logical possibility of it isn't a re...
However, I suppose you being the smartass you so often are actually meant that as a way to mock my lack of knowledge with regards to Chomsky and my la...
True, but that we cannot even possibly understand how it could be otherwise is an indication that we have no reason to think it could be otherwise. Wh...
Well I take it to be a response to: Since that's where I am mentioning swimming, hence the idea of a pond in your response. If so, then what other mea...
Yes I agree when you put it like this. By virtue of protecting yourself from inflation - ie participating in the economy - you aren't withdrawing it. ...
Yes he would obviously deny it, but he would have to provide additional argument for it. That's what it means when something isn't certain. Kant creat...
Can you please provide me with a citation for this? Has René shown that there is an unexperienced synthesis of self and world that occurs prior to exp...
Ok so on this view, causality is associated with the intelligibility of the world, not with its possibility - the world could possibly not be intellig...
Objects of perception are given in space. Space is a precondition of perception, and therefore cannot itself be perceived. You cannot hold space, touc...
Conditions of perception are not themselves perceived - the eye does not see itself. Therefore, you can say that objects of perception are ideal - whi...
The point is, whether you like it or not, that Kant's a priority of space, time, causality, etc. was an original stroke of genius, and I'm not a big f...
:-} Yes obviously. Nowhere did I claim that. For something perceived to be ideal doesn't require it to be a priori - and space isn't perceived - thing...
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