No, since space is a form of knowledge - that which makes knowledge and experience possible - there cannot be any spatial knowledge to be gained by ex...
Right but what is a priori space? A priori space doesn't say anything about the world, but it certainly says something about the possibilities that ex...
For example, space being non-Euclidean determines that the angles in a triangle can add up to something different than 180 degrees, and inversely - sp...
They are possibilities which are determined to exist by the nature of space itself - by the properties of space. If space is 1 dimensional, there can ...
I do but I'm not big on the Trinity at all. I still consider One God to be more significant than the Trinity - the Trinity is a secondary development ...
If space has no properties, then how come lines are possible in it? How come circles are possible? How come any geometric figure is possible in it? Wh...
You misunderstand - those geometric objects aren't objects at all - they are pure spatial relations. Geometry is the study of possible spatial relatio...
The categories are provided by the mind, by the understanding, they are pure concepts and therefore they are ideal... In addition to these I include s...
Yes it does, because lines not being material objects don't show up in your experience a posteriori at all. They are possible solely because of the na...
Geometry does not study material objects... A line is not a material object at all. Neither is a triangle for that matter. Remember that a line has no...
Kant said this - does everyone see it? Space - if it is to be a form of our intuition, must condition and determine all possible spatial relationships...
Which is a property of space governed by geometry... the fact that two objects can't be in the same place at once is a statement of geometry. This is ...
You asked me what I meant by that expression. I didn't mean something very technical by "world" in that context, so my apologies for not being more cl...
Time to go back to Berkeley, and Leibniz, and Spinoza and those guys... if that doesn't work... we can all become Skeptics, nothing to worry about >:O...
The noumenal just becomes unnecessary if the categories aren't ideal. Experience is no longer representation. It doesn't work for Kant either, just fo...
I did see this paragraph but I don't see how it answers the point. By means of what is space the principle of individuation if not by the relationship...
........ :-} Okay, I have no problem with that position in-so-far as this thread is concerned. I told you that moving towards transcendental realism i...
Yes, that is true. But I think the version I outline is stronger and more internally coherent than the one outlined by Schopenhauer, hence why I dared...
Personally I would disagree, and I would say they're dependent on the thing-in-itself. Their objectification as representation - that is dependent on ...
Why then are geometrical judgements synthetic a prioris? They are synthetic because they are reducible to a perception a priori. And they are a priori...
I agree with (1) and (4), but (2) and (3) should be reversed. First, the will is given under time - we know of the will in time. The Platonic Ideas ar...
I would say part of the principle of individuation because time for example also individuates. This is problematic. Space being inseparable from our c...
Okay that was my fault for not expressing myself correctly. That's something that most liberals would deem sexist, simply because that's how they labe...
:-} I never said the demand is equal, I said it could be equal. Also I'm not exactly sure how you'd measure your demand, except by noting the number o...
Well I do happen to share what Emptyheaded considers as the Tragic Vision of mankind with some contrasts - for example I don't place such a strong val...
My favorite is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether She was a genius, her work on symmetry and conservation laws accounts for some of ...
This is a little bit of a strawman with respect to some conservatives like me. I'm a rational conservative instead of a reason-skeptical conservative ...
... No we're definitely not saying the same thing. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IntrinsicCurvature.html As I have said a million times, Non-Euclidean ...
As I have explained to you, the problem isn't this. The problem is that people in the West are no longer motivated by discipline and hard work. Instea...
I mean you'll obviously have conservatives attending university (like myself for example), but the peer pressure washes most away, because they just s...
Yes, so at least for the developed world that is the case, and I guess it will continue to be the case for quite awhile. In a way, it cannot NOT be th...
No, it's just that I know how people who work in business (not speaking now of those who work in large corporations) treat economics - as bullshit. Pr...
It could be, but given the cultural milieu I doubt that the rate of conservatives being produced is greater than the rate of liberals being produced. ...
That's bullshit in itself. The US as all other countries are still developing, and in fact trying to develop as much as possible, and grow as much as ...
So a particle is literarily in the same spatial position as the other? Isn't it around the same vague (in QM) position? That's entirely different from...
But it's disastrous - if you look at the number of liberals compared to conservatives, only 20% are conservative. We're losing, and we have to do some...
They don't. They're merely correlated with one another. The ideal is parallel to the material. Tell me TGW, can you conceive of two objects occupying ...
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