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Quite. This is the point of the book I keep referring to, Mind and the Cosmic Order, by Charles Pinter. He shows how this process is working even with...

To refer to the original context, @"Leontiskos" was responding to the OP Mind-Created World, but the point that the 'boulder' objection does not addre...

My response was to refer to the argumentum ad lapidem, the 'appeal to the stone', by which Samuel Johnson famously attempted to refute Berkeley's argu...

I think the traditionalist answer to that is to refer to universals - hence my reference to Russell yesterday. Very briefly, it revolves around the me...

No, because it has to exist in the first place, in order for us to know anything. It's 'transcendental' in Kant's sense that it is implicit in knowled...

Hey take a look at that ChatGPT link 3 posts up. ChatGPT is so cool....

Have a read of Mind Created World on Medium (I don't think that needs a log in). The first half is reproduced in a thread of that name.

Rationality doesn't exist in the world tout courte. It is derived from the consistency of the relationships between ideas and experiences. (Even ChatG...

Definitely not. But neither did it not exist. *Nor for transcendental idealism. That is from the Mind-Created World OP, and I believe is consistent wi...

Still not buying the idea of 'build'. But agree with the re-definition according to enactivism.

As soon as you have to enclose the key word in scare quotes, it's game over ;-) 'New' in comparison to what, do you think? The kind that manifests whe...

They argue that. Whether they succeed in demonstrating it is another matter. How does one test such an argument?

Funny that in America at least, the politicians who are the most 'anti-vax', are also the ones most totalitarian leaning. Or maybe it's not funny.

And actually, come to think of it, and considering my appalling academic record, it was, until then, about the only exam I'd ever passed.

Christie's epic takedown.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5O7owD-tmo

Don’t know if I’ve related this anecdote but when I finally decided to give uni a shot, several years after leaving school, I sat the quaintly-named M...

That quote comes from a chapter called The World of Universals in The Problems of Philosophy. It is one of his very early books, but a very helpful tr...

Regrettably in this case I have to agree with your opponent. That is the error of psychologism. Geometric shapes and numbers are not mind-dependent in...

No, but sure glad not to be the fly :lol:

Not at all. Recall the primal dictum given to Socrates by the Oracle of the Temple of Delphi: know thyself! But that is a very different matter to kno...

I think you need to step back and try to re-focus on the basis of this debate. It is that the mind is not a blank slate which passively receives impre...

That's a big question, but again, because biology is the science of living organisms and their environments, their physiology, reproduction, evolution...

But you're using the word 'thing' and 'existence' very imprecisely here. Surely I can reflect on myself, I can engage in reflection and analysis, but ...

Greetings, JuanZu, and thanks for the intro. And to you also :pray:

I get the idea that Plato’s appeal to the ‘innate wisdom of the Soul’ can be explained naturalistically with reference to evolutionary psychology. Mak...

Via the Latin ‘substantia’, as SEP also says.

Origin of substance according to the Stanford Encylopedia: Whilst Latin may not be a source of much of the daily English lexicon, philosophy was writt...

I am trying to capture the meaning of ‘substance’ in philosophy as distinct from everyday use. I am mindful of the fact that ‘substance’, in philosoph...

I see a single life as part of an unfolding of a continuum which neither begins at birth nor ends at death, although the metaphysics are difficult to ...

He has changed the metaphysical sense, though. Descartes introduced a new meaning to the notion of substance but that this has had deleterious consequ...

I think 'the soul' simply refers to 'the totality of the being'. Obviously when you die, the body remains, but it is no longer animated. And the soul ...

I am quite impressed with your posts, but I find them very hard to understand. Perhaps you might write a self-intro in the Intro thread , it might hel...

It’s there in his own words. What do stones and his soul have in common? They’re both substances.

Something I've noticed is that there is almost no reference to 'emotions' in classical texts, whereas there are very frequent references to 'the passi...

I've started using 'Bingbot' in my current techwriting contract, and it's acually good! It's like Help on steroids when it comes to solving MS Office-...

Psychopaths, at least, are often described as 'soul-less' for the total inability to empathize.

Where there's a wheel there's a way :-)

I think your belief in the mind-independent nature of existence is innate. The following is a lengthy quote, but it brings the issue into sharp focus....

Yes, I felt such an in-depth discussion of Kant belongs in a Kant-related thread.

There is a link to the thread I moved it to - you mean you're not seeing that? Try refreshing your screen might be a caching issue.

I challenge that claim. I see Kant as a qualified realist - he describes himself as being at the same time, an empirical realist but also a transcende...

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MODERATOR NOTE: several of the comments about Kant's philosophy and his views on realism vs idealism have been moved to Anyone care to read Kant's "Cr...

Would I be right in saying that you see Kant as regarding the ding an sich as the real object, from which apparent objects are merely derivative? Does...

Not at all, I think it's more that I haven't read the primary sources, so I'd better do that. https://www.platonicfoundation.org/phaedrus/ https://www...

That's also how i understand it, but am looking for a better insight into it. I understand The Symposium is also relevant to this topic.

It seems the idea of eros and the erotic are quite different in these dialogues to the carnal desire it is generally associated with in modern culture...

Because Kant was too subtle? I often mention that ‘the number 7’ is real, but that it only exists as an intellectual act, and not as a phenomenal obje...

The big idea that has grabbed me of late is that ‘being is a verb’. It sounds obvious, a tautology even, but for the tendency to treat beings as thing...

Yes re-reading Descartes again after a long time, I can see the cogency of Kant’s critique.