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Thanks. This is an idea I've been researching, and I would appreciate your view of it. It's often said that Aquinas was a realist, not an idealist, bu...

No, Frege was much later than Kant and was critiquing Kant. And Frege is indeed mentioned right at the outset of Rödl’s book. Remember the title of th...

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I would have thought you’d agree with:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_(essay)

Frege’s contention is that the content of thought (<p>) can be entirely objective and independent of any particular subject. Frege’s emphasis is on th...

Is the contention from both Kant and Rödl simply that any thought that <p> is necessarily entertained by a conscious subject? Meaning that the subject...

Incomprehension followed by profanities. True to form.

But it does more than that. Yes. there is an external reality, but no, we don’t see it as it is. That surely provides scope for philosophical analysis...

I'd agree with that. I've tried to field your many repetitive complaints in good faith for a lot of years, but it does become wearisome.

Of course not. When I cite a source for support, it is to orient my arguments with respect to others, standard practice in debates. And you're what Ka...

Hence the distinction between what exists and what is real. I said, I know it's a difficult distinction to make and that it's controversial, and that ...

There's no accounting for taste, especially in popular music. Some people like Neil Diamond.

'You're the Voice' would be preferable. However, shouldn't be forgotten that voting is mandatory. When my son moved permanently to the US, he would re...

that's right - all the folks who man the voting booths and conduct the ballot, many of them volunteers. The latest it can be is May 2025 but it could ...

Because as a rational sentient being, you can number them. The point about objects of intellectual cognition such as numbers, geometric and scientific...

well, as I said, more's the pity that nuclear has been made subject to partisan politics. It's too big an issue, but I guess if Dutton looses, that wi...

Splendidly put sir. They arise from our experience and interpretation of the world. See https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/955313 for a...

I've found a book on Husserl, phenomenology and mathematics. Tough going but I think my very simple grasp of philosophy of maths can co-exist peaceful...

Regardless, I noticed last night that Hanson-Young was talking up the necessity of supporting Albanese over the Coalition. The Greens are losing voter...

Which is why I keep mentioning Thinking Being. This book has been put online, in reality it's out of print and when available was very expensive. The ...

I think there is confusion around the term 'platonic realm'. There is a domain of natural numbers, right? Where is it? Obviously a silly question; 'do...

I contemplate the idea that the appearance of organic life is also the appearance of intentionality in rudimentary form, beginning with the physical d...

But doesn’t that assume the very separation between mind and world that elsewhere you’re very keen to criticize? Humans are, after all, part of the ve...

You're asking a very big question in this OP, but not a question that science itself can answer, because it’s about judgement. Scientific methods deli...

I’m generally in agreement with everything you’ve said in this thread. But one of the thoughts it has triggered in me, is the role of language and, th...

And, more than ‘observing’. Cats and dog are quite capable of ‘observing’ the things humans observe. But only h.sapiens can measure and quantify. (I r...

thereby highlighting an intriguing link between physical causation and logical necessity, which today’s philosophy generally describes in terms of sep...

You mean, alternative mathematical systems that could produce similar results? A big part of that paper is not that maths just happens to work, but th...

Can you explain what about Wigner’s famous paper you think is confused?

It’s just a focus, and Rödl’s book is very focused. Otherwise, questions like ‘what is consciousness’ and ‘are animals conscious’ just become like hun...

Context! Sebastian Rödl's book is about human reason. The title is "Self-Consciousness and Reason: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism" (Google Books...

As far as animal intelligence is concerned, a rudimentary sense of 'self and other' would characterise any life whatever, even that of single-celled o...

Actually that makes perfect sense to me, little as I know about physical cosmology.

So might I enquire where consciousness/awareness enters the picture as you see it? Causal or consequential?

You mean the one from the University of Canterbury? Dark Energy May Not Exist Would that comprise an 'overall increase of intelligibility'? Does that ...

Any examples come to mind?

Sebastian Rödl is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Leipzig University and an advocate of absolute idealism, associated with G W Hegel: “According ...

I probably should not leap into this breech, but I think I understand the meta-philosophical reason for this. I think it's linked to something which J...

Oh. Well Jim Franklin is indeed a UNSW philosopher, so an easy misidentification to make.

Jim Franklin was a customer of Campus Computers at Usyd in the late 1980’s, when I was manager there. He was then quite a gnomic figure back then with...

Yes, agree! I didn’t read it carefully enough. I read one, and then four, but now you mention it, 3 hits the nail on the head.

Thanks for the link, will read with interest. As I’ve often mentioned, Armstrong was HoD when I was an undergrad, and as an aspiring counter-cultural ...

Yes, you can see it, and report accordingly, as a rational sentient being.

I vote '1'. Just as Kant (and Husserl) say, 'transcendental' means 'necessary for thought but not accessible to it'. We're generally *not* self-consci...

I did just that, but you're in such a hurry to reply that you didn't notice. Sure thing. Hope you enjoy your time here, but might serve not to spread ...

But without any supporting argument.

I'm beginning to form the view that you're too confused to debate with. You will jump in with an appeal to Mario Bunge, who you mention frequently, wh...

No kidding. Anyone will know that corpses do not have appetites. I'm not opposing them. I'm saying they don't support the view that neural states are ...

Fluff. Let me lay it out for you. Bunge et al, the scientific materialists want to bring mind under the ambit of the neurosciences - firm, objective, ...