David Mo

They had something in common insofar as Plato was also anti-empiricist. But Plato thought of ideal molds for every single thing. A logical problem of ...

I was thinking about Kant's theory of knowledge: space, time and categories. We build objects with them. Other "templates" are more particular and a p...

It doesn't seem obvious. We get the direct perception of a cat. The "mind" is an abstraction that comes partly from introspection and partly from simi...

Conspiracy is in the nature of states, large corporations and other centers of power. State secrets, intelligence services, hidden lobbies, etc. Power...

According to the image of a template it can be assumed either that the world is chaotic in itself and only the template provides shapes or that the te...

I do not understand your terminology: if the description is relative to (measure?) it cannot be objective. If there is no "fundamental objective reali...

Kant's idea, which I assume, is that the a priori is something like a template that we apply to the world. We only know what fits our template. That i...

Jorge-Luis Borges, the most ignored-by-Swedish Academy -this is a price in itself- of Argentinean writers, said that he had read the best verses of hi...

Rather, Kant asserts a compromise between the world and the self. The self provides the order of our knowledge and the world the substance. He was rig...

Kant: The senses provide subjective and contingent knowledge. We perceive something from a unique perspective and we don't know why it has to be that ...

Of course, Kant is a man of his time, and the debate of his time was between empiricists and rationalists. But to equate his starting point with Locke...

I don't know much about Locke, except his (relative) liberalism. I get the impression that he's much simpler than Kant. If you want present the case f...

In my opinion what makes Kant attractive is that he stands between subjective idealism and dogmatic realism. The world of phenomena is somewhere betwe...

Your mistake was here. Things in themselves are not perceived, only thought.Let us see the whole paragraph: "The aim of this remark is only to prevent...

It should be noted that Kant wrote in Old German. This leads to different translations. The one from Cambridge University Press (available online) see...

I'm afraid I don't understand the example of the toast. This raises a question about your conception of the thing in itself (noumenon). The face on th...

Thank you.

This has no sense for me. Could you quote Kant's exact sentence, please?

Etymologically, yes. But that compromises us with Greek philosophy, which is what Kant wants to criticize.

Sorry, no. Can you point me to a link on the Internet? I read in French.

In this paragraph Kant is criticizing the "ordinary" representation of things in themselves, purely empirical. His criticism begins from "But if we co...

See previous comments, please.

Welcome, Tim. I agree. The fathers of 20th' Scientific Revolution were obsessed with Mach, Hume or Plato and let in oblivion Kant (with d'Espagnat exc...

Yes. But in quantum mechanics (not philosophy) the subjective means the problem of measurement, that is to say, the fact that some objects cannot be k...

Noumenon is just the opposite of appearance in the sense that appearance is the phenomenon. We can see houses (phenomenon). We cannot see God (noumeno...

Kant is not always clear, but this paragraph (B310) is. In the first sentence he defines what he means by a problematic concept. A concept is problema...

That seems to be the case if you have not grasped the concept of problematic, which is essential to the understanding of the paragraph.

I said that the problem of subjectivity in measurements was raised, not that everyone had the same answer. And subjectivity does not only mean conscio...

Let's take it one step at a time: Your first quotation says nothing of distinction noumenon- thing in itself. Only says that intellect is not appliabl...

Well, I'll say goodbye with a quote in which Kant identifies noumenon and thing itself directly: "...a way in which the object exists in itself (noume...

Can you quote Kant to demonstrate that distinction?

Does this one work? "The concept of a noumenon, (...) as a thing in itself" (B310) Not only I, but other participants in the forum have already given ...

If the concept of imbecility disappeared, imbeciles wouldn't disappear. Unfortunately. You keep confusing the concept of noumenon or thing in itself w...

Here you see: "Now the doctrine of sensibility is at the same time the doctrine of the noumenon in the negative sense, i.e., of things that the unders...

And when Kant says that the thing itself cannot be known, does he not put it in relation to our knowledge? To say that it marks the limit of our knowl...

This is your way of saying it, not Kant's. Besides, there's a difference between imagination and the world of noumena in Kant. In the imagination, sen...

It's the same thing even if you call it by different names. "Noumena" is another way of saying "thing in-itself". If the subject disappears, the name ...

I have not understand what symmetry you refer. Anyway, Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg et alia thought that quantum mechanics posed a problem of subjectivi...

Your argument is wrong. To think that an undetermined "something" has caused A is not the same as knowing the cause of A. Moreover, Kant says countles...

Kant distinguishes between knowing and thinking. We can think about infinity, but not know it. Knowing implies defining and grasping its existence.

Similarly we talk about rivers of honey or flying horses. Mixing concepts or using meaningful words in wrong contexts where they mean nothing.

God, soul, Universe as Totality... It can be thought, but not known. It is thought as a mere boundary of what I cannot know. My intelect push me to it...

I am sorry. I believed this advice was yours. "Wiki and stanford or britannica ency. are all decent ways of finding items of interest though." Then yo...

I don't know what Schopenhauer was exactly referring to. But some basic things are clear and distinct. For example: "'The transcendental use of a conc...

I would say that here are some obviously wrong interpretations of Kant. Go to the section on CPR that I recommended in my previous commentary and you ...

I don't think that's advisable. If you want to get an exact idea of what Kant thinks, go to the Cambridge University Press edition of the Critique of ...

Maybe this quote solve the problem of noumenon and thing in itself “Noumena in a positive sense are simply noumena as Kant originally defined that not...

Right. I've already rectified it. Isn't calling the pruychos "bolontes" relating the pruychos to bolontes? Hmm. One of us has a problem with English a...

From CPR: "it also follows naturally from the concept of an appearance in general that something must correspond to it which is not in itself appearan...

I'm sorry I don't have the Critique of Pure Reason at home in English, but it's a major mistake to dissociate noumenon and thing in-itself in Kant. Fo...