In the longer version of the original post (linked from it), there are references to a book called Mind and the Cosmic Order, Charles Pinter, an essay...
Do. But bear in mind, that I'm making these comments in the context of the original post, which is not directly about Kant and German idealism. It say...
The basic idea is that the self or soul is unknowable. We ourselves are, in reality, the in-itself. That, I understand to be the wedge that Hegel used...
He says It might be better to say that the 'I think' is 'the condition of the possibility of experienceable objects'. And that conforms with the passa...
The way I put it is that the 'I' or self cannot be said to exist in the same sense that the objects of cognition exist. There being an observer (a sub...
Q: Hey Claude, is it true that the largest source of data for LLMs training models is Reddit? Claude AI: No, that's not accurate. While Reddit is cert...
What happened to that document you posted the other day? The OP seems to have dissappeared - I went back to review it after making an initial comment ...
Of course, Kant knew nothng of Buddhism but they share some common ground. Kant's statement that the 'I' cannot be made an object of thought is an ins...
Isn’t that utterly simple? Going back to the original post: the contention is, simply, that “the world” (object, thing) is not simply given but is con...
Sure, our brains differ, and language use varies, but within bounds. What Kant is pointing to are the universal structures that make a shared, law-gov...
It seems to me you’re wanting the 'in itself' to carry explanatory power — to be the hidden cause or ground of appearances — and then faulting Kant fo...
The point isn’t that Kant makes positive claims about the noumenon. It’s that he shows where our concepts lose their foothold — not stipulatively, but...
The direct analysis of knowledge and experience is precisely the subject matter of philosophy. Kant is not making positive claims about what the in-it...
:yikes: supercalifragalisticexpialidotious! I think many of the problems arise because of the tendency to try and treat consciousness - actually, I pr...
The appeal to “all our science” actually illustrates my point. Science already presupposes space, time, and causality, because its subject matter is e...
Seems Zelenkskyy played his hand very well in the Oval Office meeting. Media is reporting that he even got a laugh out of Trump - very difficult thing...
A salient passage from the Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Aesthetic, On Time: Kant’s point is that the world we know is not reality as it exi...
If you insist. I think the essential difference is that you’re framing the question of 'mind-independence' as if it were about what lies behind appear...
Many very good points there. I'm a bit more charitably inclined to Berkeley - as I think I said, his nominalism was a definite weakness, he had no coh...
That’s what worries me. I said he’d betray Ukraine back in February. Rubio is now saying ‘both sides have to make sacrifices.’ As if Ukraine has not s...
You said you don’t care abut the truth, makes no difference to your life, and it doesn’t matter to you what I think. You’re verging on trolling and I’...
News is breaking that Trump is demanding that Ukraine relinquish the demand for NATO membership and recognize Russian occupation of the Crimea. I have...
This mis-states my view. I am not saying that “because we think about a time before we existed, therefore that time must be mind -dependent.” That wou...
I had in mind Aristotelian metaphysics, in particular. I realise that many subjects are now explored under that title, and that there is a revival of ...
I wouldn't mind that. We all kind of left off, as it's a challenging book, but on the other hand, I thought we were actually making some headway. I'm ...
Even though I can see your point, I understand Banno's bafflement. You're saying it goes deeper than language, and I agree. I've mentioned before the ...
Please don't go to any trouble. Those passages you provided were on-point, but they are very dense and difficult, without the background in Hegel and ...
I've copied this passage you provided elsewhere because I would appreciate your perspective on the issue I've raised in the OP, specifically in two pa...
Of course, but it would still be a dog, not an elephant or a cat. Surely the distinction between different canines can be accomodated by the Thomistic...
As I understand it, and Heaven forbid, were it to come to pass that your dog Bee was caught in some terrible calamity, such that her mortal form were ...
The decline of Platonist realism is well-established intellectual history. The constellations of attitudes which Lloyd Gerson designates 'Ur-Platonism...
The Ted Kaczynski archive? I offer this far more simple excerpt from the Nishijima-roshi, a S?t? Zen priest who died in 2012, in respect of the real a...
What is a table to you, is a meal to a termite, and a landing place to a bird. Without wanting to wade into the endless quantum quandries, I really do...
Not only different cultures, but also different forms, levels or states of consciousness. Something the Scholastics and Islamists will understand that...
He has a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@thedavidpakmanshow. I much prefer Brian Tyler Cohen and Glenn Kirshner, although it should be acknow...
Right — and that’s why I found the Rödl passage interesting. He’s saying that logical principles don’t ground experience, but they also can’t be treat...
I'm trying to stick with epistemological idealism: matter arises within consciousness, because consciousness is a necessary pre-requisite to knowledge...
Washington Post, NY Times, Australian Broadcasting Commission, CNN, etc. Occasional stories from Wall Street Journal through Apple News. The ‘importan...
The title of that very difficult book is Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism. Do you think the absolute idealism ...
Whereas from my perspective that is a fair description of your responses to it, but let’s not get involved in mudslinging. That would be the mainstrea...
From the day-after headlines, it seems pretty clear that Trump is going to back Putin and sell Ukraine out. Reports are circulating that Putin’s condi...
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