Marty

I don't understand anti-teleological views. It seems as though everything has a purpose in so far as everything in the world operates underneath ratio...

Yeah, I think you can separate particular (and therefore contingent states of affairs) of loneliness from your friends. What I don't think can be sepa...

So, you can highlight different aspects of the same thing. Let me use another example in causality: the sugar cube causes the water to become saturate...

I wouldn't say it's a tautology, but it is a priori statement. Perhaps synthetic and therefore amplative (not trivial). That is to say, when we align ...

Sure, but that's not the point. The point is when it is occurring these are the direct (and perhaps logical) consequences of such a dispositional stat...

There's a sense of where content here is being used differently. You're equivocating. If someone is content, then they lack motivation in some specifi...

I'm not talking about the literal sense of being alone. I'm saying talking about loneliness. And that's what I'm putting into question: if they are co...

But isn't a lack-of connection with other people precisely the same type of thing as being alone with oneself? Just expressed in two different ways? T...

Why not the entire book?

So having read more now, I think the German Idealist's account of causation seem to be dead on right. The dynamic theory of causation seems pretty pro...

The general problem I see with Hume's position is that causation is defined as a relation that relates two events or objects that takes place in a dia...

Hume believed in hypothetical norms.

Well, that was my question to the forum! If Naturaphilosophie is dead in the water, then the only thing we can take from Schelling would be his views ...

Yeah, I guess there'd also those dualisms too. But I mean, other the general problematic of transcendental philosophy, what's the issue with the other...

This seems like the only salvageable reading of Kant purported by Henry Allison in Kant's Transcendental Idealism. The divide is an epistemic divide, ...

My reading of Kant is actually anti-dualistic. I'm not sure to what extent the latter German Idealist actually captured Kant's thought correctly. I se...

I just offered one last post. I don't think "those are ways we think" is enough to say it's merely that, either. Might as well go on to say that thing...

Sure, the point is if it's conditioned by the mind or not. If something is necessarily true, like mathematical statements, I'm not sure how they can b...

I'd need a positive account for why that'd be the case.

I'm not sure what it means to say that, like, logic, mathematics, valid inference rules, certain types of categories are "in the mind".

I mean, it's probably a mistake.

Well, I think any psychological view of Kant is a really bad misreading. I mean his entire critiques attempts to prove the universality of epistemolog...

I'm curious whether any historical philosopher (that we would know about any way) really committed themselves to a psychologism. I know there were ear...

What an embarrassing thread. After his second post you can conclude it's not worth anyone's time.

Transcendental isn't the same as transcendent. Transcendental just means "conditions of possibility" Transcendent is something like, "beyond our limit...

I'm not asking the general question. I'm asking the specific one: why teleological explanations at all? I'm not talking about a universal skeptic, jus...

Well, I am no longer familiar with what Plato had in mind in the Sophist, but I'm guessing "the be able to act" just probably means" causally efficaci...

The pure concepts of understanding don't "exist". They are transcendental. They merely create the conditions of possibility for us to understand/exper...

I think this misunderstands my question. I'm not saying mechanistic and teleological explanations are at odds. I'm asking why even have teleological e...

Also, there would be a lot of argumentation here to read (8 pages), but I'm also going through a teleological phase right now so I wanted to ask you s...

The pure concepts of understanding are synthesized with the sensible intuitions. They are not projected onto nature, but have a structure such that th...

Your reading of Kant seems wrong. Kant didn’t say we “impose” form to the world. Kant didn’t say we can’t know the noumenon — we can know it negativel...

The question amounts to something like: Is our knoweldge to us, in all ways, transparent? Why would we say we hold a belief that is a justified true b...

Casually sliding in my own discord chat. We got a lot of members.

The fact that people would deny any of that is criminal now.

But then the sound isn't distinct from meaning, but has a coextensive conceptual meaning. Unless its just a mere sound, in which case would go to the ...

Say if this was the case, if words were like sign-posts that had no meaning associated with them. Then it would require an infinite regress of interpr...

I don't mind externalism w.r.t value properties. I'm an externalist all the way through. I'm merely commenting on the notion that if we're defining em...

I'm really boggled by the proposition that values are nonconceptual and nonempirical. I'm wondering if Agustino is using some Humean version of empiri...

They are descriptions of the content of our experience which is fundamentally conceptual. That content is just a part of the world. So phrases like th...

I'm not sure why this is the case? I'm not sure what our language is doing other than, at least in some sense, accurately depicting the world around u...

Exactly what, outside of social agreement, is the "true meaning" of the term agnosticism? Does something being really old make it truer? Also relevant...

As I recall, there was a difference between the Huxleyan Agnostic who strictly denies in principle we can ever know that God exists, and an agnostic w...

I find the debate whether Spinoza was a panentheist or a pantheist to be difficult. Mostly because I'm not sure if the whole substance had intentional...

Less sure about Spinoza, but I believe for Hegel (or Schelling) it depends on what the panpsychism entails. If it entails that anything has consciousn...

No. You missed the point.

Moral judgments are reasoned towards and elected, not elicited.They are a part of the values seen in experiences that call to us. Not something impose...

I'm mostly working this in my head recently: Considering that one does not have immediate access to all their memories at once, in virute of what is t...

Why have a flat ontology? Do you see a utility in emergentism? What work is it suppose to do?

The brain, which produces data streams, is also a data stream itself. Ah,excellent. The experience of a brain produces itself. Looks as if Charleton f...