I really do not much care which account of Kant is the correct one - one world or two. Rather, my point is that, that this is such a bone of contentio...
Interesting, but this account uses an essentialism that, as discussed previously, I don't think can be made to work. In dying, the Queen did not cease...
Here's a small chance, a chink in the wall of Kant*. What if talk of the cup perceived and of the cup's ding an sich are talk of the very same thing? ...
I linked to a substantive elaboration from Wolfram MathWorld. That's a pretty close analogue. Is it harmless? It's not philosophy, not metaphysics, an...
Their your teeth... Edit: Just to be sure, ...was a joke directed at Metaphysics as an Illegitimate Source of Knowledge, another thread in which Bob q...
Yes, you caught me out, I appealed to both metaphysical realism and to common usage. One does not generally ask for two cups of tea, the perceptual an...
Ok. Now I'm not sure if I should ask you to grab a cup for tea. I'll admit to a prejudice towards a relatively direct, common usage sort of realism. N...
Probably not, given certain prejudices about what a "real" response might be. But it might be the best we can achieve. Perhaps the rest is just shite ...
I wasn't appealing to "another metaphysical claim", but to common usage. I won't ask a Kantian to get a cup out for tea. Heaven knows what might happe...
I like simple. I don't understand "bedrock Existence-with-a-Capital-E". I did like your ...except that I think what's going on is mostly veridical. Th...
An obtuse reference to another of Bob's threads concerning the legitimacy of metaphysics. I would have thought that, where a metaphysics leads you to ...
Yeah, I can see your lack of comprehension. That's what the rest of my post does... the counting bit is the one/two worlds problem. So you are happy t...
I'll come in on side with 's view here. A congenital problem with idealism is that, in denying that things exits outside the mind, it throws out the e...
Most of them? I think it's been made clear, by myself and by others, that there are problems with the very idea of a thing in itself. There's also the...
So the only perspective is that of the viewer, looking at the corpse. See from around PI §283 onward, especially I concur with his sentiment here, exc...
Death is not something one experiences in the first person. Dying, perhaps, but not being dead. Contrast that with pain. Not at all sure where this is...
A shame. It is apparent that arguing the point pushes you to defend Kantianism, reinforcing it in your mind. Yep. You say that as if it were a bad thi...
Yep. Something invisible moves the trees, carries the clouds across the sky, you can feel it on your face. It enters and leaves your body as you breat...
Perhaps I was not clear. I am happy with what you have said here. I wasn't referring to any reaction of regret; just the simple fact that a dead body ...
Oh, not a contention, to be sure - but while Tully might speak for himself, it's plain that talk about a thing about which we can say nothing is at le...
This is of course a huge topic. Yes, physics does provide us with ways to do things we could not otherwise do, and it is important to note that physic...
The Liar is a bit more involved than just that. There are a wide range of formalisations. Gödel does not use the liar. The sentence of interest is not...
No, , that's not close. I'll take your word for it, although I recall reading a similar account elsewhere, with Plato writing differing accounts for v...
Is it? Or is that an act of faith on your part? You put your trust in it being possible without the case being demonstrated. Elsewhere, I just wrote t...
If scepticism "haunts us all the time", then so does certainty. Consider our acceptance of the paper, the workshop, all the conversations therein, and...
Odd, isn't it, that when some folk discover that the chair they are sitting on is composed of atoms, and is overwhelmingly space, they sometimes decid...
One core problem has already been mentioned by . Keep in mind that when Kant posited his ideas, microscopes were a novelty and Dalton had yet to expli...
Well, yes - that's what these posts are about. I'm pointing out that we do not do so by specifying an essence; that the way we use language will often...
That might need reworking, but I gather you are asking about what happens at the point of death. The language "divided in two" is loaded with dualism....
Nothing to do with the choice between process and substance - I don't think physics has made much use of "substance" for a few hundred years. Nor is p...
Well, put simply, we seem to be able to talk about the universe with some considerable understanding, and yet, for you, it's not clear what it's "true...
...we mix physical explanations with intentional ones. It's not unlike getting an ought from an is. It's like mistaking the physical body for the mind...
Yet there it is, the article that shows how we conceive of and conceptualise the universe. You want to express awe in the face of the vastness of exis...
Sure. Not a bad first version. The problems go deeper, as the SEP article cited previously shows. For my part, I suspect that individuation is an act ...
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