Marchesk

So Kant realized that Hume's argument was disastrous to reason, and something more needed to be said.

Do laws of nature preclude probabilistic outcomes? The coin flip is 50/50. I can predict that in advance. But what makes it 50/50? It goes to the ques...

I think the Calvinists make a better argument regarding God's sovereignty (or omni-nature), but it still has the problem of redefining the good to be ...

When Hume notes that inference isn't deduction, was his conclusion that we can't know that causation exists, because it's inferential, or just that we...

Alright, so to get back on track, what makes a counterfactual true for a deflationary theorist? If Pierce had dropped the stone during a lecture, it w...

So what is the point of deflationary truth? That there is nothing metaphysically significant about truth or propositions? So all one needs to do is gi...

I fixed it after re-reading. But kind of interesting typo. The white from the snow gets into the sentence to make it true, or something! Just kidding,...

A deflationary theorist can make a further move and say, just go outside and look and you'll see that the snow is white. And indeed we will, if it is ...

She doesn't, but that doesn't change the fact that you have a sentence in a human language on one side and the state of affairs which makes the senten...

Eternal hell doesn't square with a perfectly good God. The Calvinists make a good point about free will. How can God be sovereign and not in control o...

The probability can be known in advance. Changing from determinism to probability doesn't change the fact that there is an apparent order to events, b...

I don't know about that. Some people hurt others because they like it, or they want power and money, or their ideological belief requires it. Not ever...

Mental construction is causative. It's the same as saying that causation is a habit of thought.

I don't know. Can't say I've given it much thought before.

Didn't think I'd ever see that said on here. LOL.

>:O

Is the problem related to causality? If we knew that the sun would be caused to shine for billions more years, then it wouldn't make sense to say it's...

Why did Hume think we couldn't perceive causation? Because we only see the constant conjunction and not the underlying cause? Hume assumed that if the...

I'm not considering the ideal. It's a comparison with other human abilities. We're naturally good at language and storytelling. Math and logic are har...

Some cognitive scientists have stated that we are bad at reasoning. That we're better than other animals is like saying I'm better at playing the viol...

I'm curious about your critique of Wittgenstein's main contention that language is the chief cause of philosophical problems. I take it you don't agre...

Do you think any philosophers you've read are geniuses, or at least, good at philosophy?

I don't have a good answer for this right now. Maybe because I'm bad at philosophy. All of this seems to be elaboration on Man being the measure. Whic...

Spinoza defended a form of neutral monism? Interesting. Well, I suppose this all goes back to Plato and his realization that you need the forms for kn...

So is reading Kant like reading the Bible, where the cultural context is often lost on the modern reader?

Telling stories. Maybe we should put philosophy into literary form. Or just have undergrads watch The Matrix and Fight Club.

Do we need something other as a comparison to notice whether we're poor at an activity? Here's the suggested evidence that humans perform poorly at ph...

I heard hims say that in a talk on consciousness with Chalmers and Dennett. Dennett did not agree. It's an interesting metaphor, but the problem I hav...

It would seem that our sight dominated hominid brains have been fooled by a metaphorical way of thinking about our relationship to the world.

You're saying that surprise is justification for belief in the world beyond us. If we were never surprised by anything, never wrong about how we think...

Which means a naive view of perception or realism doesn't work. But it's also a mistake to conclude that just because our minds work that way, the wor...

This sounds close to Berkeley's idealism. What I gather from your interpretation of Kant is that the following philosophical positions are wrong: Mate...

Is the stick bent in the water, or does it just appear bent, or are we imagining it to be bent? Did I hallucinate the person in the window, or just im...

Because humans noticed a long time ago a discrepancy between appearance and reality, and that people are quite capable of being wrong about a number o...

The reason the view from nowhere is not abstracted from those things is because they're not subject to perceptual relativity or creature dependance, f...

Which would mean it's possible the world is as we think it is, at least in some cases, such as dinosaurs living 65 plus million years ago, we just can...

Right, I think Nagel's argument was that "nowhere" meant a view abstracted from human perception of colors, sounds, smells, etc.

But then what are we to make sense of the world without us, since the totality of facts shows us that we've only been around a short time, and only ex...

Perhaps not. But we can revise our thinking on them. And we can propose concepts without one or more of those categories you listed. The idea that tim...

So Kant was saying that the God's eye view, or Nagel's view from nowhere can't be had by us, because we have to conceive of the world someway, and tha...

So Humeans are howler monkeys, and Kant is the monolith from 2001? j/k What does it mean for thought to be objective and universal? Does that just mea...

I changed my post, because that would need to be expounded on to say that if professional philosophers made the same fundamental mistakes as students,...

Did Kant mean it in the broadest sense that we can't get outside of some form of conceptualizing the world, or that we can't get outside of specific f...

Definitely this would be a sign that we're bad at it, particularly if professional philosophers fall prey to the same poor reasoning.

No. It all depends on what is meant by being trapped inside our conceptual schemes. But then that leads down the paved road of endless semantic disput...

Maybe so. Now that you've put it that way, inside is a spatial metaphor. It gives the idea that we're trapped inside some space, and can't get out to ...

If philosophy is an artform like literature or music instead of math or science.

I believe the example of Kant making a fundamental mistake was that we can and do get outside our conceptual schemas to check them against the world, ...

I don't understand how it makes no sense. Let's take a couple of examples. Mendel theorized that genes were the units of inheritance, but he wasn't ab...

That you don't hear mathematicians and physicists saying that kind of thing about the entire field that Witty was quoted above as saying, and that alt...