Wayfarer

Some background Kant's argument for "existence is not a predicate" is grounded in his analysis of the logical structure of judgments. He argued that e...

Where would the line be drawn?

I think the situation is that Trump and Fox and other media have created a separate reality which is disconnected from the facts. It is Guy Debord’s ‘...

Disagree. Going back to the pre-Kantian idea of noumena as ‘object of mind’, the noumenal might be understood as something nearer the original meaning...

I think you’re expressing the predicament of modern culture. That’s exactly what it seems, and the modern philosophers, including Kant, are who made i...

It’s given as an example of a concept that is easy to grasp in principle, but is almost impossible to form or recognise an image of. In its context it...

pretty much :meh:

From a current Washington Post OP on the hearings: "The panel’s national security subcommittee brought in, as its star witness, one David Grusch, a fo...

Here is the nub of the issue as I see it: This leads to the criticism that Kant's analysis cuts us off from the world, entrapping us in our own subjec...

They seem very much of a piece don't they? That the evolution of language and reason would go hand in hand, would it not? That would not be a controve...

They're plainly connected, in that abstraction is necessary in order to comprehend reference. I've been consulting ChatGPT on Kant's conception of the...

and the ability to reason.

A mental image of a chiliagon cannot be clearly distinguished from a mental image of a 1,002-sided figure, or even from a mental image of a circle.The...

Here’s a good example from Descartes. If I tell you a chilliagon is a thousand-sided polygon you will be able to grasp the idea easily. But you could ...

@"RussellA"’s first response seems :up: to me. But I still say that understanding the meaning before Kant is helpful. I’m going to study it some more.

I would have thought that saying there is something we can’t know would not be the same as saying there’s nothing.

Working on it. I asked for a citation because of the import of the specific question at hand. I mean 'not even the One is uncompounded' *sounds like* ...

that really has no bearing on anything in that quote, which is essentially Aristotelian in orientation. And Aristotle never spoke of 'spirit'. What ca...

Good call. I was going to flag this thread on that basis, but I have done that. It is saved somewhat by the inclusion of the second of the two phrases...

That's similar to hylomorphism - 'matter-form' ism. In hylomorphism the 'form' (which is NOT the shape of something, but more like its principle or es...

Certainly how Kant tends to be viewed around here in my opinion.

Can you find a citation from philosophical literature for that? From Greek or Indian philosophy? A counter-example I would cite is the 'Nibbana Sutta'...

I would like to nominate Jules Evans for inclusion. His website says 'I research wisdom practices from different eras and cultures, explore them in my...

Back to Trump - I think it's pretty clear there are going to be both Jan 6th (Federal) and Georgia (State) indictments issued in the next month, by wh...

True. It is really unfortunate that this matter is bubbling away, although I'm personally convinced on the basis of material to date that Joe Biden is...

Hunter Biden's activities are an embarrasment for Biden, no question about that. The right-wing activitists in the Republican Party are spending milli...

The word itself is the neuter middle-passive present participle of noeîn, 'to think, to mean', which in turn originates from the word noûs, an Attic c...

'Purity' represents 'the Unconditioned' or 'the One'. Everything 'worldly' is conditioned, compounded, subject to death and decay, whereas 'the One' i...

It’s what interprets any array that is at issue. The same information can be represented by many different states and in many different media. If the ...

We’ll if you rake up a thousand tons of muck it’s bound to contain a few turds. Far more important than, you know, governing. And furthermore….

It’s not true that DoJ is soft-peddling Hunter Biden. There’ve been numerous OPs in the US media to the contrary, that were Hunter Biden NOT the Presi...

But it must be considered that objects only exist in relation to, or for, subjects. What is ‘objectively true’ is always a matter of judgement. That d...

Right - it’s a matter of judgement, which is always internal to thought, not something given in the data itself. A Kantian insight.

It seems to me that what you’re asking is the sense in which AI systems can or can’t be considered beings. After all dasein is the form of being or ex...

Philosophically, a deity may be said to transcend the subject-object distinction.

You think? :yikes: 'The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there' ~ L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

Well, yes it was a generalisation. But the early Buddhist texts were unequivocal in their rejection of any form of sexual activities with other person...

Compare:

Beyond Belief was the first (actually I think only) book of Pagels that I read. At the time I had the view that the gnostic sects were trying to conve...

I agree, but I hope and believe that they are going to end up loosing. They are alienating millions of mainstream voters with their extremist ideology...

Gift article from the Washington Post about how the continued GOP defense of Trump is going to cost the party.

Face it - old school religions hate sex, and they were mostly patriarchal. We look at it nowadays through our comfy rose-tinted modern spectacles but ...

Your faith is touching, but I'm not falling for the schtick.

In the polls. But as I said above, there are many, many other factors in play in this case.

Zero chance, I say. Let's revisit later, because it won't become clear for a few months. But he's only ever won one election, every one since has been...

Enough bickering. I've excised a couple of pointless back-and-forths.

My anthropology of the figure of Jesus was as (to adopt a phrase from popular Eastern philosophy) the 'god-realised man'. His mode of life was a wande...

Trump faces more charges over Mar-a-Lago secret documents case 'Six weeks after he was indicted in Miami on 37 charges relating to sensitive documents...

'She loves to limbo, that much is clear She's got the right dynamic for the New Frontier' ~ Donald Fagen, the Nightfly.

In Beyond Belief, she actually says the opposite - that the Gospel of Thomas represents the gnostic schools, and the gospel of John the mainstream whi...